Speaking with special counsel Jack Smith’s team earlier this year, former Vice President Mike Pence offered harrowing details about how, in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, then-President Donald Trump surrounded himself with “crank” attorneys, espoused “un-American” legal theories, and almost pushed the country toward a “constitutional crisis,” according to sources familiar with what Pence told investigators.

The sources said Pence also told investigators he’s “sure” that – in the days before Jan. 6, 2021, when a violent mob tried to stop Congress from certifying the election – he informed Trump he still hadn’t seen evidence of significant election fraud, but Trump was unmoved, continuing to claim the election was “stolen” and acting “recklessly” on that “tragic day.”

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Man, NO ONE who was sentient during the Bush Sr administration saw this coming. All I remember about Dan Quayle was him getting pilloried on SNL, repeatedly, for being almost too stupid to breathe – either completely absent from the national conversation or getting mocked – and here he is saving the country.

    I did not see that coming at all. Glad and very, very relieved the jokes were wrong.