On January 6, the vice president calls Trump a’reckless’ person

Pence, the Capitol Mob, and the 2024 Campaign: A Brief Account of the First Day of the Jan. 6 Insurrection

Still, Pence – who said Trump was “reckless” with his tweet attacking his vice president that day – was critical of Trump over the events surrounding the insurrection, writing that he told Trump directly afterward that he was angry and that what he’d seen that day infuriated him.

Pence wrote that he tried to convince Trump to listen to the White House counsel’s advice, rather than outside lawyers, but that the president turned it down.

Pence’s role in presiding over the electoral certification process made him a central figure in the Jan. 6 proceedings. In the days and hours before the mob attacked the Capitol, Trump put his vice president under intense pressure to overturn the 2020 election results. Ahead of the first day of January, Pence was present in several critical meetings with Trump and his allies.

After telling ABC News he thinks we will have better choices in the future than Trump, VP Pence has also floated the possibility of running for president in 2024. His memoir is mostly about Trump, but he defends him against scandals, personal vendettas, and the late Arizona Senator John McCain.

The Saturday after the election, Pence wrote, Trump’s son-in-law and top aide Jared Kushner called him to ask whether he thought there had been fraud in the election. He told Kushner there was probably fraud but he didn’t believe it was why they lost.

“I think that is up to the American people, so I don’t have any opinion as to whether or not he should return as president,” Pence said. In the future, we will have better choices. People in this country actually get along pretty well once you get out of politics. They want to see their national leaders reflect that compassion and generosity of spirit. And I think, so in the days ahead, I think there will be better choices.”

On the day after his new book is released, Pence will be participating in a CNN town hall. Jake Tapper of CNN is hosting a town hall in New York City.

Asked by ABC News if he believes he could defeat Trump, who is expected to announce a 2024 campaign for the White House on Tuesday, Pence replied: “That would be for others to say, and it’d be for us to decide.”

So Help Me God: The First Vice-Presidents Addressed Capitol Hill During the January 6, 2016 Incendiary Rehearsal

The former vice president, who was at the Capitol on January 6 as the violence unfolded, said he “felt no fear. I was filled with indignation about what I saw.”

“They were walking us for the motorcade with the doors on our Suburban open on either side. And I saw that they had positioned vehicles on the ramp. I turned to my Secret Service lead and said I was not going in that car. I assumed that if we closed the doors of my team’s car and took it away, someone at Secret Service headquarters could simply give the driver an order to leave.

“I just didn’t want those rioters to see the vice president’s motorcade speeding away from Capitol Hill. I did not want to give them the satisfaction they wanted.

The comments are part of the vivid ending of Pence’s new memoir, “So Help Me God.” It’s being released as Trump prepares what an aide has said will be the launch of his 2024 presidential campaign Tuesday night at Mar-a-Lago.

The House committee hearings that took place January 6th focused on the conversations between Trump and Pence, and the book gives the vice president a chance to discuss his exchanges with the president.

The Trump-Pence ticket led in states with large numbers of mail-in ballots, but results in other states started to shift, and the leader started to disappear, according to a letter from the vice president.

He described watching Trump claim in an early Wednesday morning speech that the election process had been “a fraud on the American public” and said the days that followed the election were “a little like the twilight zone,” as Trump’s team challenged states’ results.

The pressure from Trump and his allies to disrupt the congressional certification vote was immense, but this was in the lead up to it. As president of the Senate, Pence was tasked with presiding over the certification proceedings.

“I said, ‘You’ve got a good team at the White House,’ to which he grumbled, ‘No, I don’t,’” Pence wrote. If the president had listened to those good men and not the gaggle of outside lawyers that took over the election challenges from the campaign, things would have been different.

The man walked out of his office and into the Senate floor, where he gave a thumbs-down and sat down. “There was an audible gasp. The effort to repeal and replace Obamacare was dead. The Trump administration had just lost it’s footing. Trump was upset. I was, too.”

“With that, the president said that he guessed it probably just ‘takes courage,’ implying that was what I lacked,” Pence continued. I told him, firmly, ‘Mr. President, I have courage, and you know that,’ when I was still standing in front of the Resolute desk.

Pence confirmed that he had been set to meet with North Korean officials during the 2018 Olympic Games, but the meeting was pulled down hours beforehand by Pyongyang.

The FBI should investigate the allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, but the investigation should be limited to the accusations of the Trump campaign and their dealings with Russia.

“I always had the impression that the president felt that acknowledging Russian meddling would somehow cheapen our victory,” he wrote. I think that Trump made the right move in calling Russia out for its bad behavior and declaring the intelligence services knew what Putin was up to. I had no problem calling Russia out.”

The North Koreans were the ones pushing for talks, as well as the former South Korean President who wanted to make it happen, according to Vice President Mike Pence.

“Before the opening ceremony, there was a large reception and dinner for the two hundred national leaders in attendance,” he recalled, noting that Moon had arranged for he and the North Koreans to be seated at the head table, and that “a group photograph was arranged at the outset of the banquet.” Pence and former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intentionally arrived late to the banquet and did not participate in the group photo.

In this segment, we take a look at his role in the battle against the coronaviruses and also the relationship between him and Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert.

I was happy that he was there. He was a reassuring voice to the public; Mitch McConnell had advised me, correctly, that Fauci would be a valuable member of the team because of his stature.”

“Trump is from Queens, Fauci from Brooklyn, and Fauci was not put off by Trump’s New York brashness. He had grown up around it. He is a brash New Yorker, too,” Pence wrote.

They both had strong weapons and fought back hard when attacked. They would have become friends had McCain lived, according to Pence.

He also made clear that he still resents the terminally ill McCain’s return to the Senate floor to cast the vote that would doom the Trump administration’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

The Departments of Defense, Energy, and State had to make do without fiscal-year spending after Sen. McCain voted against the repeal of the health care law. “Trump was delighted. McCain was incensed. He actually said, ‘It is unfortunate that one senator chose to block consideration of a bill our nation needs right now.’ Takes one to know one.”

Deputy Vice President Mike Pence and the Subpoena in the Watergate Investigation: The Nixon Administration and the U.S. Supreme Court

According to CNN, Donald Trump has asked a court to stop former Vice President Mike Pence from speaking to a grand jury about certain issues covered by executive privilege.

Executive privilege is a legal protection for the president of the United States that allows them to shield some of their private communications from Congress and courts.

The idea that some documents and information would damage the public interest or the country in some way is what Jonathan Shaub, a former Justice Department official, says at its core.

Legal experts explained that the protection allows the advisers of the president to give candid advice without fear of public disclosure and make the president’s deliberations more productive.

The idea is from the Nixon administration, when a special prosecutor in the Watergate investigation subpoenaed tapes and transcript of conversations related to the break-in.

Although the court ruled against Nixon, it ultimately found that there is confidentiality interest in communications between a president and their senior-most advisers. The court stated that there is only one limit to executive privilege, and that is when the communications are relevant to a criminal investigation.

Nixon’s criminal case was brought to the attention of the Supreme Court due to the fact that there was a need for evidence in a pending criminal trial.

Legal experts say that the majority of executive privilege disputes have been resolved by compromise between those asking for the documents or testimony and those providing.

The House committee investigated the attack on the Capitol. The committee subpoenaed several of Trump’s aides and advisers, but many refused to testify on the basis of executive privilege. The DOJ brought criminal charges against two of the advisers, including one who was found guilty of contempt for refusing to testify. The contempt case against another, Peter Navarro, is expected sometime this year.)

Trump also tried to sue the heads of the House select committee and the National Archives to block the release of Jan. 6-related documents, but a court ruled against him last year.

The former president has also tried to use executive privilege to block testimony to a federal grand jury, but those efforts have been less successful, the New York Times has reported.

A subpoena issued by the Department of Justice is harder to ignore, said Victoria Nourse, a former DOJ official who also served as chief counsel to the vice president of the United States under then-Vice President Joe Biden. Congressional subpoenas can lack teeth because the process to get a judge to enforce them can be slow, she explained.

“A vice president will usually ask the President to give him Executive Privilege, which he will then announce”, said Nourse, a professor at Georgetown Law. “In this case, that would be a question in and of itself: whether Trump will do that for Pence.”

If Trump does decide to assert executive privilege, then a battle in court might follow. Executive privilege is not applicable to a crime. It’s about how far they want to go and whether or not they want a judge to adjudicate it.

It is unclear how long it will take for the sealed proceedings to unfold, but it’s possible that the district court resolves the dispute, or that it will be appealed to a federal appeals court and perhaps, eventually, to the US Supreme Court.

A federal judge orders Jack Pence to testify before the grand jury about conversations he had with Donald Trump in the run up to January 6

Smith has a reputation for moving quickly and has accelerated the probe’s pace since he took over.

Pence ultimately rebuffed those calls for him to disturb Congress’ plans – a decision he stands by now. He also revealed that he will fight the subpoena in Smith’s investigation.

The former vice president said that since he was also acting as the Senate president that day, he is protected from certain law enforcement actions targeted at their legislative conduct.

A federal judge has ordered former vice president Mike Pence to testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with Trump in the run up to January 6.

The ruling from chief judge James Boasberg of the US District Court in Washington, DC, adds to more than a dozen wins for special counsel Jack Smith forcing witnesses to testify to the grand jury, and is unusual in that it delves into the powers of the vice presidency as well as separation of powers. Pence still has the ability to appeal.

In an interview on Tuesday with Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren, the former vice president said that his team will review the requirements of his testimony in order to better understand the court’s decision.

During the attack on the Capitol, many of the Trump supporters yelled for him to speak, and while he did not speak he narrowly escaped the mob on the Senate floor.

Julie Radford said that she recalls thatIvanka Trump told her her dad had had an upsetting conversation with the vice president.

The case against Mike Pence is not going to come up with a new weapon to investigate the investigation of a campaign to pay off Stormy Daniels

The claims that were described publicly by Vice President Mike Pence are novel. His arguments attracted criticism from a broad range of legal scholars, including former Judge Michael Luttig, a conservative legal luminary who publicly argued that Pence should certify the electoral results.

His statement led to a lot of speculation about the state of the grand jury looking into Trump’s alleged involvement in a scheme to pay off Stormy Daniels.

But no action has come from the district attorney’s office thus far, and the grand jury is not expected to consider the Trump case again this week, two court sources familiar with proceedings told CNN. The case the grand jury is hearing is unrelated, so it will not meet on Wednesday. The grand jury does not meet on Friday.

No. Trump was arrested last Tuesday, along with a call for his supporters to protest, after he posted on his social media that he would be.

He’s continued to rail against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the other prosecutors investigating him in Washington, DC, and Georgia. He warned that his arrest could endanger lives, and that it could be catastrophic for the country.

The new weapon that Democrats are using to cheat on elections is being criminally investigated a candidate, Trump said at the rally in Texas.

Trump repaid his former lawyer Michael Cohen a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels days before the election to keep her silent about an alleged affair with him. Trump has denied being involved in an affair.

Last week, the district attorney’s investigation appeared to be nearing an end following testimony on March 20 from Robert Costello, who testified on Trump’s behalf to try to undercut Cohen, the prosecution’s key witness.

On Monday afternoon, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker was whisked into and out of the Manhattan courthouse building. He helped negotiate the payment for American Media Inc. as chairman, helping to create the hush money scheme. AMI has signed a non-prosecution agreement with prosecutors.

The testimony of Pecker suggested that the office of the district attorney felt the need to rebut the testimony of Costello, who claimed Cohen made the payment himself.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/politics/trump-grand-jury/index.html

Trump Indicted after the Mar-a-Lago Investigation and Wrapped Up FBI Discrepancies in Fulton County, Georgia

The public may not learn of the charges until the district attorney announces them or Trump uses social media to let his followers know he will be indicted.

The security preparation for a potential Trump indictment has been going on for months among multiple law enforcement agencies.

Bragg has made clear that he will publicly state whether or not Trump will be charged once the investigation is concluded.

Trump tried to keep Evan Corcoran from testifying before the grand jury about the Mar-a-Lago investigation, but he appeared before them and was expected to answer questions.

In addition to the special counsel’s pair of investigations, a special grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, wrapped up an investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election earlier this year. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has suggested indictments could be coming in that case as soon as this spring.