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Trump, Pence meet for first time since US Capitol violence
- US President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence had a ‘good conversation’ at the White House after nearly a week of silence
- They pledged to continue to work for ‘the remainder of their term’ – signalling that Pence will not invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office
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US President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence appear to have come to a detente after nearly a week of silence, anger and finger-pointing.
The two met on Monday evening in the Oval Office and had a “good conversation”, according to a senior administration official. It was their first time speaking since last Wednesday, when Trump incited his supporters to storm the Capitol building as Pence was presiding over certification of November’s election results. Pence and his family were forced into hiding.
During their conversation, the official said, Trump and Pence pledged to continue to work for “the remainder of their term” – a seeming acknowledgement that the vice-president will not pursue efforts to try to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office with nine days left in his term, and that Trump will not resign.
While his office had not definitively ruled out invoking the amendment, Pence had signalled that he no intention of moving forward with that kind of challenge. The House is prepared to cast a vote on Tuesday calling on Pence to invoke the amendment.
“The president represents an imminent threat to our Constitution, our country and the American people, and he must be removed from office immediately,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The House on Wednesday is expected to make Trump the first president in the nation’s history to be impeached a second time.
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