Pence took ‘contemporaneous notes’ about Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to the indictment. He is a central figure in the charging document as he challenges Trump for the 2024 GOP nomination.
accusing former president Donald Trump of criminal schemes in his effort to overturn the 2020 election results references Mike Pence or the office of the vice presidency more than 100 times, reflecting Pence’s role as a central figure in the charging document.Pence took “contemporaneous notes” about Trump and his allies’ efforts to overturn the 45th president’s electoral defeat in the lead-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.
Pence served Trump loyally for four years, and the former president’s pressure to overturn the 2020 election results marked their only public break during the Trump-Pence administration. The indictment offers a timeline of private phone calls that allegedly occurred between Trump and Pence in the lead-up to Jan. 6, in which Trump pressured Pence to interfere with the election results.
It is historically rare for a former vice president to take on a president he served under, and the indictment document offered the latest example of the extraordinary circumstances surrounding Pence’s White House run, which has met head winds so far including resistance among some Republican voters to his stance on Jan. 6.
“The former president is entitled to the presumption of innocence, but with this indictment, his candidacy means more talk about January 6th and more distractions,” Pence said in a statement. “On January 6th, former President Trump demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution. I chose the Constitution and I always will.”Trump’s pressure campaign against Pence in the events leading up to Jan.
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