{"id":2709,"date":"2023-08-06T15:35:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T15:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsbuzz24x7.com\/pence-does-not-rule-out-testifying-against-trump-in-2020-election-case\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T15:35:47","slug":"pence-does-not-rule-out-testifying-against-trump-in-2020-election-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsbuzz24x7.com\/pence-does-not-rule-out-testifying-against-trump-in-2020-election-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence does not rule out testifying against Trump in 2020 election case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Mike Pence says Trump was 'surrounded by crackpot lawyers' leading up to Jan. 6\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">WASHINGTON \u2212 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/08\/05\/mike-pence-too-honest-trump-indictment\/70528174007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Former Vice President Mike Pence<\/a> did not rule out testifying against former President Donald Trump in his criminal case over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Pence told CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation\u201d in an interview that aired Sunday he currently has no plans to testify against Trump but said \u201cwe\u2019ll respond to the call of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI have no plans to testify, but people can be confident we\u2019ll obey the law. We\u2019ll respond to the call of the law, if it comes and we\u2019ll just tell the truth,\u201d Pence said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The 45-page indictment handed down last week laid out four charges against Trump: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. Trump\u2019s pressure campaign on Pence to overturn the election is a central strategy to prosecutors&#8217; allegations Trump illegally tried to reverse his loss.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/08\/01\/donald-trump-mike-pence-indicted-election-christmas\/70509684007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Pence could be a key figure in Trump\u2019s case<\/a> as it moves through the legal process. The indictment mentions contemporaneous notes Pence took during key meetings and phone calls as Trump and his allies pressured him to reject electoral votes following the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cThere was from time to time, particularly at important moments, I had a practice of scribbling a note or two on my calendar just to memorialize it and remember it and I did that in this case,\u201d Pence said, confirming he took notes in the lead up to Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">Not just one more indictment:<\/strong>A stress test for Trump, the campaign and the country<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:441px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2023\/08\/06\/USAT\/70538488007-ap-election-2024-pence.jpg?width=660&amp;height=441&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2023\/08\/06\/USAT\/70538488007-ap-election-2024-pence.jpg?width=1320&amp;height=882&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Republican presidential candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence speaks with the media during a stop at the Indiana State Fair, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023, in Indianapolis.\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Among some of the details in the indictment was an instance where Trump chastised his second-in-command as \u201ctoo honest.\u201d Since the unsealing of the indictment, Pence, one of many 2024 Republican presidential primary hopefuls, has become a more forceful voice against Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On the campaign trail, Pence has taken Trump\u2019s \u201chonest\u201d comment in stride.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI\u2019ve been called worse,\u201d Pence said. \u201cSo I\u2019m never offended by people calling me an honest man. And I always aspire to that and aspire to that in my faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Trump\u2019s belief Pence could overturn the election was a \u201creckless assertion,\u201d Pence told reporters following the indictment. The former vice president also called Trump\u2019s legal team a \u201cgaggle of crackpot lawyers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_anc\" id=\"gnt_atomsnc\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadAnc\" aria-label=\"Newsletter signup form\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Trump has taken notice of Pence&#8217;s more outspoken criticism, deriding him for being \u201cnewly emboldened\u201d and going \u201cto the Dark Side,&#8221; on his social media platform, Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2023\/07\/25\/breaking-trump-pence-selling-kindness\/70428069007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Pence, who has brushed off Trump\u2019s jabs before,<\/a> reiterated Sunday he had no authority to overturn the 2020 election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI&#8217;m running for president in part because, frankly, President Trump asked me to put him over the Constitution that day, but I chose the Constitution and I always will,\u201d Pence said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__lp gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:436px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2023\/08\/06\/USAT\/70538487007-afp-afp-33-qp-3-np.jpg?width=660&amp;height=436&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2023\/08\/06\/USAT\/70538487007-afp-afp-33-qp-3-np.jpg?width=1320&amp;height=872&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US Presidential hopeful and former Vice President Mike Pence arrives at a campaign event at American Legion Hall Post 27 in Londonderry, New Hampshire, on August 4, 2023.\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Pence #rule #testifying #Trump #election #case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2212 Former Vice President Mike Pence did not rule out testifying against former President Donald Trump in his criminal case over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Pence told CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation\u201d in an interview that aired Sunday he currently has no plans to testify against Trump but said \u201cwe\u2019ll respond to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsbuzz24x7.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsbuzz24x7.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsbuzz24x7.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsbuzz24x7.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsbuzz24x7.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsbuzz24x7.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsbuzz24x7.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsbuzz24x7.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsbuzz24x7.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsbuzz24x7.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}