NEW: Marc Short — then chief of staff to VP Pence — warned Secret Service on Jan. 5 of a security threat to Pence, the NYT reported and Axios confirmed.
Short warned his top Secret Service agent, Tim Giebels, that former President Trump may turn against Pence "and there could be a security risk to Mr. Pence because of it," the Times writes.Short did not have knowledge of the specifics of the security threat and it's not clear what steps, if any, Giebels took to respond to the warning.
The warning was the only time that Short flagged a security concern during his time as Pence's top aide, the Times notes.Short's warning underscores concerns among top government officials that Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election could lead to violence on Jan. 6, the Times notes.
Trump believed and repeatedly pressured Pence to reject certain outcomes and declare Trump the winner of the election as Congress certified the votes. Pence refused to do so and has since repeatedly said that Trump was wrong to suggest that he had that power. "Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American President,"
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