<p>His top economic advisor joined the chorus of criticism during an <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/kudlow-criticizes-trump-for-handling-of-riot-treatment-of-pence-11610749597" target="_blank">80-minute interview with The Wall Street Journal</a>.</p><p>"I was hoping that he would come out quickly and make statements calling everybody back and stopping the violence," White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said.</p><p>"Once the electoral college declared Mr. Biden to be president-elect, we would have been better advised to acknowledge that and to pivot toward talking about our positive achievements and the policies that generated those policy achievements," Kudlow explained.</p><p>Kudlow was asked about Trump's public criticism of Vice President Mike Pence.</p><p>"I was very disappointed in the president," Kudlow said of his boss. "The vice president's legal experts were very clear in providing Mike with the knowledge that he had a very, very limited role in the congressional certification of the electors, and virtually, except for a few extremists, the entire legal profession agreed with Pence."</p><p>Kudlow also commented on Trump's refusal to push masks during the coronavirus pandemic.</p><p>"I don't think it helped the election and I don't think it helped solve Covid," he said. "I was not the only one who gave him that advice, by the way, on the economic team."</p>
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