Donald Trump berated Mike Pence, calling his then-vice president a “wimp” during their final phone call on Jan. 6, 2021, hours before Congress certified the 2020 election of Joe Biden, according to Pence’s previously unpublished notes included in a new book by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl.

According to court filings, had his case against Trump gone to trial, special counsel Jack Smith planned to use the handwritten notes – hastily scribbled on Pence’s day planner – as evidence to document the hours before Trump allegedly directed a violent mob to storm the Capitol.

“You’ll go down as a wimp,” Trump told Pence about his decision not to block Biden’s certification, according to Pence’s notes about the call on the morning of Jan. 6, just before the president took the stage at the “Save America” rally on the Ellipse. “If you do that, I made a big mistake 5 years ago,” Pence wrote Trump told him.

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    Democrat voters didn’t have the stomach for even a quarter of what you just suggested and much of it relies on old people who don’t really care that much falling on sharp swords for the greater good.

    It also pretend that Republicans would follow the law in that case when the current problem is that they frequently don’t.

    More than that, I bet that Donald would win from prison if arrested. I me a dude hung his mug shot up 8j the oval office.