A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Mike Pence must testify before a grand jury about his conversations with Trump leading up to January 6 (which Trump, just this month, said was all Pence’s fault). Read the latest from besslevin:
: “We can expect the federal courts to make short shrift of this ‘Hail Mary’ claim, and Mr. Pence doesn’t have a chance in the world of winning his case in any federal court and avoiding testifying before the grand jury…. The only question now is not whether he will have to testify before the grand jury, but how soon.”
Pence still has the opportunity to appeal the decision and presumably will. In other less-than-great news, Boasberg ruled, per CNN, that the former VP “can still decline to answer questions related to his actions on January 6 itself, when he was serving as president of the Senate for the certification of the 2020 presidential election,” according to a source.
Still, requiring Trump’s ex-number two to testify about the conversations they had leading up to the attack on the Capitol is clearly a big deal, given that the 45th president spent weeks trying to convince Pence to blockTrump’s conversations with Pence in the days surrounding the insurrection have been of keen interest to investigators probing the attack.
For Pence’s part, many of his public comments about his conversations with Trump in the days before and after the insurrection have come in a memoir he published last year. In the book, Pence wrote that Trump told him in the days before the attack that he would inspire the hatred of hundreds of thousands of people because he was “too honest” to attempt to overturn the results of the election.
attended the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the attack in the reported hopes of keeping “her father from going too far.”
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