An 'angry' Pence navigates the fallout of his rupture with Trump over election, Capitol riots

 WASHINGTON – Before leaving office, President Barack Obama provided the nation’s maximum civilian honor – the Presidential Medal of Freedom – to his vice president.

In President Donald Trump’s very last days, he has offered comparable honors to California Rep. Devin Nuns, one in every of his maximum vocal supporters at some point of impeachment, and to 3 expert golfers.

To his vice president, Trump bestowed the label of coward.

The staunchly unswerving Mike Pence changed into excoriated through Trump on Wednesday for his refusal to illegally interfere to save you Congress from certifying the consequences for the presidential election that Trump lost.

“Mike Pence didn’t have the braveness to do what must were carried out to shield our Country and our Constitution,” Trump tweeted in a  publish that Twitter eliminated Wednesday evening.

Trump has additionally barred Pence’s leader of staff, Marc Short, from the White House.

“He’s blaming me for recommendation to VP,” Short instructed Real Clear Politics.

'Never visible Pence as indignant'

Pence has now no longer spoken publicly approximately the rift.

But Sen. Jim Inhofe instructed the Tulsa World on Wednesday that he’s “by no means visible Pence as indignant as he become today.”

The Oklahoma Republican informed USA TODAY he talked to Pence approximately Trump's rebuke. Pence, he said, was “very upset” with Trump.

Trump’s public denunciation of his vice president is unheard of with inside the records of the present day vice presidency, in line with scholars. And it comes after extra than 4 years of Pence displaying intense deference to Trump, main critics to deride him as an obsequious enabler of a risky president.

“(Trump’s) turning on Pence is mainly putting given Vice President Pence's loyalty to the president which some, myself included, could regard as having been immoderate with inside the records of the office,” stated vice presidential student Joel Goldstein.

The smash provides to uncertainty approximately what’s in shop for the the rest of Trump’s term, mainly with inside the aftermath of the violence that engulfed Washington on Wednesday whilst Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.

An individual near Pence who become now no longer legal to talk publicly stated that even as Pence’s group predicted Trump to be upset, his conduct become “a surprise to all of us.” The individual stated it’s “truly unclear” how the dynamic among the president and vice chairman will paintings going forward.

While a few speculated Trump would possibly step down on the remaining minute so Pence ought to difficulty a pardon to him, it is even much less probable now, stated Todd Belt, a presidential professional at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.