Trump Rioters Wanted to Find and Hang Mike Pence, Reuters Reporter and Eyewitness Says

[sabra]

Source: Mediaite

Supporters of President Donald Trump who stormed and invaded the Capitol on Wednesday reportedly intended to find and execute Vice President Mike Pence.

Reuters News Pictures Editor Jim Bourg revealed in a Twitter post that he heard “at least 3 different rioters at the Capitol say they hoped to find Vice President Mike Pence and execute him by hanging him from a Capitol Hill tree as a traitor.”

“It was a common line being repeated,” he added. “Many more were just talking about how the VP should be executed.”

A Twitter user later responded to the report, sharing a video of rioters chanting, “Hang Mike Pence!”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-rioters-wanted-to-find-and-hang-mike-pence-reuters-reporter-and-eyewitness-says/

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[NoRoadUntravelled]

1. One can only hope this eliminates the chance of Pence pardoning the lunatic. nt

[RealityCheque]

2. Clearly the prevailing reason...

Why Pence is scared shiftless to evoke the 25th amendment

[katmondoo]

3. I am just beginning to think these people are far more clueless than I thought.

Really sick and far out.

[patphil]

4. If there was any doubt of the Seditious intent of this mob, it has been removed.

If they were successful, the Republic would have been plunged into chaos...perhaps a full scale civil war.

[Marcuse]

5. They would have said it was Antifa that rioted and invaded the Capitol and killed Pence.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Woman shot in the middle of Break & Enter in Capitol had retweeted call to arrest Pence for treason

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14844628

[Corgigal]

7. For Trump..

to please Trump.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Rioters erected a gallows and functional noose outside the Capitol . . . nt

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Interrogations could be a lengthy affair as they try to root out those specific to this threat

Plus all those nice cell phone records!!

And all the lying there will be to avoid accountability.

Maybe they should have shot someone on 5th Avenue instead.

[FM123]

10. It was well known that Pence was there with his daughter, were they going to take her out too?

I wouldn't put it past them.

[BlueWavePsych]

11. BusinessInsider link ...

A Reuters photographer says he overheard pro-Trump insurrectionists saying they wanted to hang Mike Pence at the Capitol

https://www.businessinsider.com/reuters-photographer-says-pro-trump-rioters-wanted-to-hang-pence-2021-1

[modrepub]

12. This Should Scare Every (Sane) Republican

Mobs are easy to stir up and hard to control. Just ask the folks in ancient Rome or Constantinople, or Parisians during the French Revolution. I like to remind folks like our autocratic leader what happened to Caligula (and his immediate family). Look it up if you're interested.

And I'm not wishing violence on anyone. What happened on Wednesday was utter bullish-t. Not funny, man.

[AntiFascist]

13. Not that I'm a supporter of Pence, but...

this is precisely why both Trump and the Defense Secretary need to face the most severe penalties for sedition. The leaders should be held to the highest standards and face the greatest penalties in order to set an example for future governments as well as the world.

[jmowreader]

16. I would also pin all the deaths on Trump

None of those people would be dead if Trump wouldn’t have encouraged his followers to storm the Capitol. Trump needs to go down on five capital murder charges.

We have never had to execute a president before in the history of the Republic, but there’s a first time for everything.

We also need to find enough felonies on the people who went inside the building that they lose their gun rights and voting rights. Send a strong message that this shit will not be tolerated.

[orangecrush]

14. Treason most foul

[ck4829]

15. K&R

[Aristus]

17. Hey, "both-sides" types: get this through your thick heads.

We don't want Mike Pence dead. We just want him out of office.

The right-wingers want him dead.

These are two radically different things.

So stop the stupid fucking both sides nonsense...