Mike Pence Speaks Out Against Trump & January 6th Riots in New Netflix Series

Among the many current and former politicians, Constitutional experts, and historians to appear in Netflix’s new docuseries, The American Experiment, is former Vice President Mike Pence, who was uniquely challenged in his efforts to uphold the founding document by the events of January 6th.

The five-part series delves into the creation of the United States of America, detailing the many perils and setbacks of the American Revolution and the disagreements and compromises that had to be made to form its founding documents, particularly the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Pence appears throughout the series, touting the framers’ heroism and wisdom throughout these trials, but in the final episode, he gets to talk about his own moment of such.

“In January of 2017, I put my left hand on Ronald Reagan‘s Bible, my right hand, I took an oath,” Pence says in the feature. “The Bible actually says, ‘He keeps his oath even when it hurts.’ I know something about that.”

The episode reviewed grueling footage of the day, including part of Donald Trump‘s speech to the eventual insurrectionists as he said, “All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify, and we become president, and you are the happiest people.”

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It then shows coverage of Pence having delivered a notice to Congress that he did not have the Constitutional authority to oppose the count, after which Trump’s followers stormed the Capitol, and Pence and others had to flee to safety.

“For me, on that fateful day, having made my position clear to the president many times, my only purpose was to keep my oath,” Pence then says in the feature. “Thanks to the courage of law enforcement, the riot was quelled.”

After footage of Pence announcing the count, that Joe Biden had beaten Donald Trump in the 2020 election, Pence then says, “I always believed that I did my duty that day to see to the peaceful transfer of power under the Constitution of the United States. 20 years before that day, I was a freshman member of Congress, Vice President Gore, who just lost the presidential election in a contest that was decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, was presiding over the electoral college. I walked across the street, went into the Capitol chamber, and sat and watched.” Pence reveals that it was Gore’s grace in the moment that inspired his own decision.

“For me, at the end of the day, the story of the Constitution is a story of the art people keeping faith with what’s written there,” Pence says.

The American Experiment, Netflix