'Hang Mike Pence!' Trump supporters intended to execute vice president during Capitol riots(
Raw Storylink): Some of
President Donald Trump's supporters apparently intended to kidnap
Vice President Mike Pence and execute him if he didn't overturn their election loss. The president's supporters stormed into the
U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, as
Pence presided over the congressional certification of
Joe Biden's election win, and video captured some of them threatening to execute the vice president -- who
Trump had singled out in a speech just minutes before they burst into the building.
"
Hang Mike Pence, hang Mike Pence," the crowd chanted as alarms sounded after the mob broke into the
Capitol.
Photographs show some rioters carrying flex cuffs used as restraints by law enforcement and a gallows set up outside the Capitol, and the vice president was taken to safety, along with lawmakers, congressional staffers and reporters, after the president's supporters broke in.
"I heard at least 3 different rioters at the
Capitol say that they hoped to find
Vice President Mike Pence and execute him by hanging him from a
Capitol Hill tree as a traitor," reported
Reuters photographer
Jim Bourg. "It was a common line being repeated. Many more were just talking about how the
VP should be executed."
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