In an exclusive interview with Laurenjmayk, retiring Pennsylvania SenToomey recounted the events leading up to and during the January 6 Capitol riot:
Toomey said he wasn’t alarmed when Vice President Mike Pence left the Senate chamber because he hadn’t anticipated the Vice President would remain there for the entire proceeding, but an announcement from the sergeant at arms signaled something was seriously wrong.On January 6th, Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey says he watched then President Trump’s speech from his office but didn’t expect what happened next.
“I was shocked at the tone and the message and the things he was saying, but … it didn’t occur to me what was about to transpire,” Toomey said. Toomey, who did not run for re-election and is planning to return to the private sector when his term ends, recounted his memories from that day in an interview with NBC10 at his Allentown office. Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters.
Toomey said he wasn’t alarmed when Vice President Mike Pence left the Senate chamber because he hadn’t anticipated the Vice President would remain there for the entire proceeding, but an announcement from the sergeant at arms signaled something was seriously wrong. “The sergeant at arms jumped up and shouted out that, close the doors, turn on, you know, all lights on, all doors locked, nobody goes in or out, you know, activity’s suspended here. And I realized, well that’s pretty serious. We’ve never seen that before,” he said.
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