Donald Trump’s vice president, the target of his election-subversion campaign, hasn’t gotten a formal invitation to testify. But the select committee isn’t ruling it out.
The Jan. 6 select committee’s hearings are all about one man, and it’s not the one you think.
It’s Mike Pence.
At nearly every turn, Donald Trump’s crusade to stay in power ran through his vice president. Pence was the subject of Trump’s last-ditch, possibly criminal, pressure campaign to overturn the election and a necessary component of the former president’s plan to send friendly false electors to Congress. Not to mention that the domestic extremists who allegedly ignited the violent Capitol riot intended to prevent Pence from presiding over the transition of power to Joe Biden.
Ultimately, Pence’s refusal to support Trump’s push enraged the former president, who used it to stoke his supporters’ fury even further. Now the only remaining question is whether Pence — who has been boosting his public profile for a potential 2024 bid — will play any direct role in the select panel’s effort to force a national reckoning with Trump’s plot to subvert the election. Democrats say they haven’t ruled out the possibility that he’ll testify.
“We’ve always had the effort to reach out and get the vice president’s participation, so that’s still there,” the Jan. 6 committee’s Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) told reporters, adding: “we’re still engaging [Pence’s lawyers].”
The panel has clearly wrestled with how to approach the former vice president, treading cautiously around questions about their intentions. Meanwhile, Pence has shown no public interest in participating in the select committee’s proceedings, though he’s publicly defended his decision to break from Trump and rebuked the former president’s push to overturn their loss to Biden.
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The Jan. 6 select committee’s hearings are all about one man, and it’s not the one you think.
It’s Mike Pence.https://t.co/cVi2ltXPh8
— POLITICO (@politico) June 9, 2022
NEW: A top adviser to Mike Pence will testify publicly on June 16 about the role he played in helping Pence stave off the pressure campaign by Donald Trump to subvert the 2020 election.
Greg Jacob will be appearing under subpoena, per a source familiar.https://t.co/hnZPBD1JGM
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 8, 2022
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