Former Vice President Mike Pence says in his new book that he was angry, not frightened when a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters broke into the Capitol chanting for him to be hanged on Jan. 6, 2021.

The 63-year-old Pence’s memoir, “So Help Me God,” was released Tuesday and is the first full recounting of the Capitol riot in the former Indiana governor’s own words.

“They had come to protest the result of the election and to prevent Congress from fulfilling its responsibility to open and count the Electoral College votes,” Pence writes of the rioters. “And, as I later learned, many had come looking for me.”

Pence, who had remained loyal and refused to criticize the 76-year-old Trump’s raucous leadership style for four years, adds that he reached a breaking point that afternoon when he realized the president’s “reckless words had endangered my family and all those serving at the Capitol.”

“All around was a blur of motion and chaos: security and police officers directing people to safety, staffers shouting and running for shelter. I could see the intensity in the eyes of the Secret Service detail; it was audible, too, in the voices of the Capitol Police. I could hear the fall of footsteps and angry chanting,” Pence recalls.

The former vice president, who was in the process of overseeing the formal certification of President Biden’s Electoral College victory, refused to be ushered out of the Capitol as the violent mob came looking for him, writing that he spent hours surrounded by staff and family members as he made calls to military and congressional leaders.

His behavior was in stark contrast to Trump, who riled up supporters with a 2:24 p.m. Tweet labeling Pence a coward as he watched TV and refused to check in on the safety of his running mate.

“I just shook my head,” Pence writes about his response to Trump’s dangerous insult.

“The truth was, as reckless as the president’s tweet was, I really didn’t have time for it. Rioters were ransacking the Capitol. … The president had decided to be part of the problem. I was determined to be part of the solution. I ignored the tweet and got back to work.”

Pence said he advised Trump to concede the election and work on making a political comeback in 2024 in the weeks after he lost to Biden. Trump was at the time “unmoved, even weary, at the prospect.”

“As the days wore on, it was becoming clear that there would be a real cost to me politically when I presided over the certification of the 2020 election,” Pence writes. “I always knew that I did not possess the authority to overturn the election. I knew it would be hurtful to my friend for me to participate in the certification. But my duty was clear.”

Five days after the riot, Trump and Pence met privately for about 90 minutes after not having spoken for several days.

“I told him that I had prayed for him for the past four and a half years, and I encouraged him to pray,” Pence says he told Trump. “‘Jesus can help you through this,’ I said. ‘Call on Him.’ He didn’t say anything.”

“With genuine sadness in his voice, the president then mused, ‘What if we hadn’t had the rally? What if they hadn’t gone to the Capitol?’ Then he said, ‘It’s too terrible to end like this,’” Pence adds.

The 45th president announced Tuesday night he would seek the presidency again, even though political observers said his endorsement of far-right candidates cost Republicans a projected “red wave” in the midterm elections.

Trump remains under federal investigation over his role in the riots, which led to the deaths of five people. At least 948 others have faced criminal charges.

On Monday, Pence told ABC News anchor David Muir that Americans will have “better choices” than Donald Trump in 2024, as he said he was giving “prayerful consideration” to his own potential White House bid.

Pence told Muir that he and his former boss hadn’t spoken in more than a year due to Trump’s insistence that he lost the 2020 election due to widespread fraud.

With Post wires