“Speaking with special counsel Jack Smith’s team earlier this year, former Vice President Mike Pence offered harrowing details about how, in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, then-President Donald Trump surrounded himself with “crank” attorneys, espoused ‘un-American’ legal theories, and almost pushed the country toward a ‘constitutional crisis,’” ABC News reports.
“The sources said Pence also told investigators he’s ‘sure’ that — in the days before Jan. 6, 2021, when a violent mob tried to stop Congress from certifying the election — he informed Trump he still hadn’t seen evidence of significant election fraud, but Trump was unmoved, continuing to claim the election was ‘stolen’ and acting ‘recklessly’ on that ‘tragic day.’”
