Former US Vice President Mike Pence has testified to a federal grand jury investigating the aftermath of the 2020 election and the actions of then-President Donald Trump and others. 9News
has testified to a federal grand jury investigating the aftermath of the 2020 election and the actions of then-President Donald Trump and others, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Trump repeatedly pressured him unsuccessfully to block the 2020 election's result, including the morning of January 6 on a private phone call, and a federal judge previously ruled Pence could be compelled to recount conversations the two men had where Trump may have been acting corruptly. The grand jury in Washington, DC, whose proceedings are secret, assembled just before 9am ET on Thursday morning . That coincided with an increase in security inside the courthouse and two SUVs with tinted windows spotted ferrying people to the building.Pence clashed with then-President Donald Trump on the day of the riots, it's believed.
The case has put Pence in a unique position to define the powers of his former office — and the court had even given the former vice president the ability to keep out of criminal proceedings his actions while he served as the presiding officer of the Senate on January 6.Pence and Trump's pre-January 6 communication
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