Former President Donald Trump rushed to defend former Vice President Mike Pence after classified documents were found at his Indiana home during a raid last week.
Hours after the news broke on Tuesday, Trump urged people to leave Pence alone in a post on Truth Social.
“Mike Pence is an innocent man. He has never done anything willfully dishonest in his life. Leave him alone!!!” the former president wrote.
CNN first reported that one of Pence’s attorneys found about a dozen classified documents at the former vice president’s home in Carmel, Indiana.
It is reported that Pence called his lawyers for the search with due diligence, and that the National Archives and the Department of Justice were immediately notified.
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The Pence home discovery also comes as both Trump and President Joe Biden have been embroiled in their respective scandals.
In August, FBI agents executed a search warrant and seized hundreds of classified documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
Then, in November and December, Biden’s team found Obama-era records at the former office Biden used and at his home in Delaware. But those findings weren’t made public until earlier this month, and more documents have been uncovered since the White House revelations.
Trump has exposed Biden to heavy criticism, blaming federal agencies for raids on his Florida residence and Democrats for inflating the issue and creating their own headaches in August. bottom.
“They completely confused me and created this mess of documents themselves and I did nothing wrong!!!” Trump wrote to True Social on Saturday.
Trump’s decision to defend Pence on Tuesday comes after the public fell out on his former vice president after Pence failed to block certification for the 2020 election, as Trump asked him to do. It was a rare move.
Many of his supporters shouted statements like “Hang Mike Pence” while storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021, prompting Trump to call the mob back or defend Pence. I didn’t do it.
“For four years we had a close working relationship, and it just didn’t work out,” Pence writes in his new memoir. help god.
Pence said he and Trump were still in touch in the months after the Capitol riots, but Trump went back to spreading claims of election plagiarism, prompting people who voted to prove the election results. When he began publicly criticizing the
After Trump’s home was raided in August, Pence said, “When I think the president is wrong, I don’t hesitate to criticize him. Clearly, it’s appropriate to keep classified documents in an unsecured location.” not,” he said.
During the same November appearance meet the pressPence also criticized the Justice Department for how it handled matters related to Trump, stating that “many other ways were needed to resolve these issues” that did not include search warrants. rice field.
