SIMI VALLEY, Calif.—In a public debut of his new memoir released this week, Former Vice President Mike Pence recounted the Jan. 6 Capitol breach and shared memories of his life during a lecture at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Nov. 17.
The book, “So Help Me God,” is the first Pence has written and carries readers through his political career as a congressman from Indiana and later the state’s governor, ending with personal accounts of his time spent with former President Donald Trump.
Pence spent four years working with Trump and defended the president from what he described as a “hailstorm of opposition,” but the former vice president only mentioned Trump’s name a few times near the end of an hourlong lecture….