
Trump's vice president from 2017 to 2021, who resisted pressure to reject electoral votes and later declined to endorse Trump in 2024.
Relationship to Trumpformer vice presidentpolitical / 1 sourceStatus
Exact relationships
- Donald J. Trump
Relationship to Trumpformer vice president
Open evidence · 1 sourcedocumented - Donald J. Trump
former vice president who declined to endorse Trump
Open evidence · 1 sourcereported - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 2 sourcesdocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 2 sourcesdocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 2 sourcesdocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 2 sourcesdocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 2 sourcesdocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 2 sourcesdocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 2 sourcesdocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 2 sourcesdocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 2 sourcesdocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 1 sourcedocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 1 sourcedocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 2 sourcesdocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 1 sourcedocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 2 sourcesdocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 2 sourcesdocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president and running mate
Open evidence · 2 sourcesdocumented - Donald J. Trump
vice president who rejected Trump's electoral-count demand
Open evidence · 1 sourcereported
Record timeline
- Trump selects Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mateFormer vice president and former running matevice president and running mate · documented · 2 sources
- Mike Pence serves as Trump's vice presidentFormer vice presidentformer vice president · documented · 1 source
- White House leaves Pence uninformed for days after learning Flynn misled himFlynn resigned February 13; Pence said the trust breach justified departurevice president and running mate · documented · 1 source
- Flynn resigns after the White House says he misled PenceFormer national security adviser; later pardoned by Trumpvice president and running mate · documented · 2 sources
- Pence's Ireland itinerary routes public spending to Trump's Doonbeg resortDocumented public expenditure; no finding that Pence personally received moneyvice president and running mate · documented · 2 sources
public costIreland limousine contract$599,454.36 - Public spending source
- U.S. government
- Funds recipient
- Limousine contractor
- Loss or cost borne by
- U.S. taxpayers
public costSecret Service payments to Trump Doonbeg$15,144.94 - Public spending source
- U.S. Secret Service
- Funds recipient
- Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Doonbeg
- Loss or cost borne by
- U.S. taxpayers
- Trump presses Pence in an Oval Office meeting after Eastman concedes statutory violationsPence rejected the proposal; Congress later counted the certified votesvice president and running mate · documented · 2 sources
- Trump falsely says Pence agrees he can change the election outcomeJanuary 6 committee found the statement falsevice president and running mate · documented · 2 sources
- Pence repeatedly tells Trump the vice president lacks unilateral election powerPosition carried into Pence's January 6 public lettervice president and running mate · documented · 2 sources
- Trump attacks Pence at 2:24 p.m. after learning violence is underwayJanuary 6 committee documented timing and crowd consequencesvice president and running mate · documented · 2 sources
- Crowd turns on Pence after learning he will not reject certified votesThreat documented; no inference that every attendee joined itvice president and running mate · documented · 2 sources
- Pence publicly states he has no unilateral authority to reject electoral votesPence followed the position when Congress reconvenedvice president and running mate · documented · 2 sources
- Trump adds five off-script demands for Pence to his Ellipse speechCommittee linked the statements to immediate crowd anger against Pencevice president and running mate · documented · 2 sources
- Secret Service evacuates Pence and his family, missing the mob by about 40 feetEvacuated safely; returned to complete the countvice president and running mate · documented · 2 sources
- Trump tells supporters that Pence alone can secure a second Trump termDemand rejected as outside the vice president's authorityvice president and running mate · documented · 1 source
- Trump insults and threatens Pence's political career when Pence refusesPence maintained his refusalvice president and running mate · documented · 2 sources
- Pence resists Trump's pressure over electoral votesPence refused Trump's electoral-count demand on January 6, 2021vice president who rejected Trump's electoral-count demand · reported · 1 source
- Pence reconvenes the joint session and completes the electoral countElectoral count completed and result certifiedvice president and running mate · documented · 2 sources
- Pence testifies to the federal grand jury investigating Trump's election conductTestimony completed; grand-jury substance remains secretvice president and running mate · documented · 1 source
- Pence declines to endorse Trump in 2024Political relationship brokenformer vice president who declined to endorse Trump · reported · 1 source