The former US vice president Mike Pence did not rule out the possibility of being called as a witness by the prosecution authorities, since his former political superior, the former president Donald Trumpwas brought to trial on charges of conspiring to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Asked by CBS’s Face the Nation if he would testify against Trump, Pence said he had “no plans” but did not rule it out. “People need to know that we will uphold the law. We will respond to the call of the law, if we have to, and just tell the truth,” said Pence, who is running for the Republican nomination against Trump for the 2024 election.
Trump’s lawyer John Loro said he would welcome the possibility of Pence testifying if the former vice president chose to do so. In repeated television interviews today, he argued that Trump’s actions after the 2020 election were merely “ambitious demands” protected by free speech. “Mike Pence will be one of the best witnesses at trial,” he said.
“I look forward to cross-examining him because what it will do is completely destroy any doubt that Mr. Trump, President Trump, strongly believed that election irregularities led to incorrect results,” Loro said. “All the things that President Trump is being prosecuted for they were about his ambitious requests – Requests to state legislators, state governors, election officials, to do the right thing. In fact, even his request to Vice President Pence was protected by free speech,” the lawyer told Fox News.
Trump has pleaded not guilty in all four charges against him.
It was Pence who would oversee the process for congressional ratification of the election result on January 6, 2021. He says he was pressured by Trump to overturn the result and refused. Some of Trump’s supporters who stormed the Capitol that day chanted “Hang Mike Pence.” These pressures and the notes that Pence kept in the period until January 6 are mentioned several times in the impeachment will against Trump. Among other things, there is talk of a telephone conversation between Trump and Pence on January 1, 2021, in which the former berated him for refusing to overturn the election result. “You’re pretending to be honest,” she reportedly told him.
Trump attacked Pence for the first time at a campaign rally on Saturday. He denied telling him he was “too honest” and said that “he’s hallucinating.”
THE Pence’s campaign is not paying off so far and may not even make it to the first debate between the Republican candidates later this month due to a lack of sponsors. In the polls, he has gathered single-digit support while Trump leads by a margin, and his percentages increase with each new prosecution of him.
Source: News Beast
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