Pence blames Trump for events leading to January 6 in new memoir

Former vice-president says meeting at which advisers led by Giuliani urged Trump to not accept election defeat was a new low'

A post-election meeting at which advisers led by Rudy Giuliani attacked campaign lawyers and urged Donald Trump not to accept his election defeat was a new low" for a president well acquainted with rough-and-tumble debates", Mike Pence writes in a forthcoming memoir.

Of the meeting in November 2020, the former vice-president writes: In the end, that day the president made the fateful decision to put Giuliani and [attorney] Sidney Powell in charge of the legal strategy ... The seeds were being sown for a tragic day in January."