Former President Donald Trump is set to be arraigned this afternoon in federal court in Washington, D.C., on charges related to his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.
The Trump indictment makes clear that former Vice President Mike Pence is a critical witness in the prosecution's case against the former president.
In the indictment, Pence is portrayed as the central figure resisting Trump and his co-conspirators' alleged schemes to delay the transfer of power before and on Jan. 6, 2021, repeatedly rebuffing Trump's demands that he reject the Electoral College results while overseeing a joint session of Congress.
Pence's actions in the lead-up to Jan. 6 have been well-documented, including by the House committee that investigated the attack and by Pence himself. He recently wrote a memoir that described his experience after the 2020 election and on Jan. 6. But the indictment provides new insight into just how crucial Pence's recollections and"contemporaneous notes" were to special counsel Jack Smith and his investigators as they built a case that resulted in Tuesday's historic indictment. Pence
before the grand jury hearing evidence in Smith's investigation for seven hours in April after initially resisting a subpoena for his testimony.
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