, setting up a potential legal battle between the former vice president and the Justice Department. It wasn’t clear Friday morning when special counsel,, issued the subpoena, nor was it precisely clear what information he is seeking. But it seems to mark a major escalation in the investigations into the former president, who is under federal scrutiny for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and for his mishandling of classified documents after leaving office.
Pence could be a key witness in the former inquiry: After Trump exhausted most of his other efforts to undermine the democratic process, he and his allies tried to pressure Pence to prevent Joe Biden’s 2020 victory from being certified January 6. “I hope Mike is going to do the right thing,” Trumpat a rally that morning, as Congress convened to formalize Biden’s win. “Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us, and if he doesn’t, that will be a sad day for our country.
Pence—who is now considering a White House run of his own—could potentially provide the special counsel with insight into Trump’s behind-the-scenes efforts to cling to power in 2020, as well as the violent denouement of his antidemocratic campaign. But it’s not clear the former vice president will be a willing participant.
against Trump—on the basis that it would set a “terrible precedent for Congress to summon a vice president of the United States to speak about deliberations that took place at the White House.”It remains to be seen if he feels the same way about the Justice Department, which appointed Smith in November as special counsel in charge of the Trump probes. According to the
Hmmm. I wonder what he has to hide?