Disgraced ex-President Donald Trump called his vice president a wimp and a pussy, his daughter Ivanka and White House aides have revealed.
The revelation was made during a hearing into the insurrection on January 6, 2020, which has been described as an attempted coup.
That morning, Trump had several family members with him in the Oval Office when he called Mike Pence.
He was trying to get him to refuse to certify the results of the election which outed him as a loser and Joe Biden the winner.
Ivanka Trump said: ‘When I entered the office the second time, he was on the telephone with who I later found out to be was the vice president. The conversation was pretty heated.
‘It was a different tone than I’d heard him take with the vice president before.’
One of Trumps former special assistants, Nicholas Luna said: ‘I remember the word “wimp”. I remember he said, “You are a wimp. You’ll be a wimp”‘.
Ivanka’s former chief of staff Julie Radford said she had told her that ‘her dad had just had an upsetting conversation with the vice president’.
Radford was asked if she remembered what Trump had called Pence – she said: ‘The P word.’
A questioning attorney asked Radford if she remembered what Trump called Pence.
‘The P-word,’ Radford replied.
At the other end of the call were Pence’s former attorney Greg Jacob, other staffers and members of the Secret Service.
They revealed they began with a prayer and after the conversation Jacob said Pence was ‘steely, determined, grim’.
Thursday’s hearing focused on the pressure campaign that Trump and his allies applied to Pence in an attempt to stop him from carrying out his vice presidential role of certifying the election.
Committee member Rep Pete Aguilar said the pro-Trump mob came within 40 feet of Pence and to ‘make no mistake’ that his life was in danger.
The committee unveiled never-before-seen photos of Pence sheltering in a secure underground site as rioters stormed the US Capitol building. One image showed Pence at 4.19pm looking at a tweet by Trump telling the insurrectionists to leave.
About 4 1/2 hours later, Pence returned to the Senate floor to continue the process of certifying the election.
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