After Trump's third indictment, former VP Mike Pence came out with some of his harshest criticism yet for his former boss and 2024 competitor. Mike Pence takes aim at Trump's 'gaggle of crackpot lawyers':
But he made his opposition clear Wednesday to a group of reporters in Indianapolis, following news of the indictment the day before. Pence said he stood by the Constitution on Jan. 6, 2021 and had no right to overturn the 2020 presidential election, despite Trump's "reckless assertion" that the former vice president could accept or reject results during the certification process that day.
“What the president maintained that day, and frankly, has said over and over again over the last two and a half years, is completely false,” Pence said. “And it’s contrary to what our Constitution and the laws of this country provide.”“Sadly, the president was surrounded by a group of crackpot lawyers who kept telling him what his itching ears wanted to hear,” he said.
“To keep faith with the oath that I made to the American people and to Almighty God, I did my duty that day,” Pence wrote.Pence was a recurring mention in the Justice Department's, including references to notes he took at the time during meetings with Trump and co-conspirators. These "contemporaneous notes" could play a key role in the trial, as could Pence depending on his level of cooperation,The Pence campaign found a way to profit, literally, from all the fresh attention. Hats and T-shirts with the label “Too Honest” appearedIn a January 2021 phone call between the pair, Trump “berated” Pence for saying there was no constitutional basis for the vice president to reject electoral votes during the certification of results, according to the indictment.
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