Pence's chief of staff says former VP rebuked Trump because it 'merited a response'

Marc Short, the former chief of staff for Mike Pence, said Sunday that the former vice president chose to rebuke former President Donald Trump in remarks last week because Trump's comments about Pence's ability to overturn the 2020 presidential election "merited response."

Pence called out his former boss by name Friday, saying that "President Trump is wrong" in claiming that the then-vice president had the right to overturn the election on January 6, 2021.
"I think that, as you mentioned, the vice president has commented on January 6 on several occasions, including last summer at the Ronald Reagan Library," Short said on NBC's Meet the Press." "And he extended those remarks a little bit this week at the Federalist Society primarily because the President's comments about the vice president had the ability to overturn the election, I think merited response."

Trump threw Pence under the bus but Pence is not having any of that.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/06/politics/marc-short-mike-pence-donald-trump/index.html