Trump seemed to suggest on Tuesday that Mike Pence was somehow part of a plot to deprive him of a second term.
Which makes it extra wild that the worst thing Pence has to
about Trump is that they haven’t really been in touch for the last few months but that when they “sat down in the days that followed [January 6], we spoke about it, talked through it, [and] we parted amicably.”It’s possible the former V.P. is simply letting people from his inner circle do the talking for him. Pera top aide to former vice president Mike Pence, met with the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot on Tuesday.
As CNN notes, Jacob served as Pence’s general counsel and “played a critical role in countering efforts to persuade the former vice president not to certify the electoral results.” He was reportedly one of several aides who called bullshit on attorney’s claims that Pence had the power to overturn the election, and the committee “has long considered Jacob a potential fact-witness in their probe,” per CNN.
As for Short, the consensus is that there are few people from Penceworld, aside from Pence himself, who could provide the kind of key details of the events surrounding January 6 that the committee is looking for. Following the initial news of Short’s cooperation with the panel,
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