Marc Short, who served as chief of workers for former Vice President Mike Pence, gave his two cents on what it’s like seeing former President Donald Trump’s mug shot following his arrest on the Fulton County Jail final week.
“I feel it’s unhappy. I feel it’s tragic,” mentioned Quick on Friday after CNN’s Jake Tapper requested for his response to the picture.
Quick, who was additionally a director of legislative affairs within the Trump White Home, famous that the previous president was nice to him and his household earlier than providing his two cents on the Jan. 6, 2021 assault.
“I do suppose that the occasions of Jan. 6 have been tragic and positively avoidable. And I feel that the president obtained plenty of dangerous counsel – in lots of circumstances, counsel he sought out – that I feel led him astray,” Quick mentioned.
“And I feel that in the end asking the vp to kind of put apart the Structure is a big violation of your most vital oath to the American individuals, to guard and defend the Structure.”
Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to fees tied to his – and 18 different co-defendants’ – efforts to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
The previous president faces 91 legal fees in whole throughout 4 circumstances.
Quick has been crucial of these in Trump’s circle earlier than, as soon as evaluating the previous president’s “dangerous” advisers to “basically snake oil salesmen” throughout an look on “Meet the Press” early final 12 months.
Tapper later requested Quick how different members of the Trump White Home not “charged with crimes” are reacting to the mug shot.
“I feel that in some circumstances it’s most likely somewhat bit surreal for lots of people, it’s essential to have somewhat little bit of distance from it,” Quick mentioned.
“However I feel that there’s clearly plenty of us who felt that the occasions of that day [Jan. 6] have been tragic and that what the president was asking the vp to do was antithetical to his oath. I feel there’s plenty of others although, Jake, who really feel that they nonetheless wish to defend and transfer ahead along with his candidacy in 2024, I feel they need this to go away.”