In a Sunday interview, Trump lawyer John Lauro claimed Mike Pence will 'be one of our best witnesses' when the former president goes to trial.
that Pence, whom Capitol rioters vowed to hang on January 6, will “be one of our best witnesses” when Trump goes to trial.
Lauro, who was brought onto the former president’s defense team last month, added that he’d read Pence’s, “very carefully,” and if Pence “testifies consistent with his book, then President Trump will be acquitted.” “I cannot wait until I have the opportunity to cross-examine Mr. Pence, because what he will do is completely eliminate any doubt that Mr. Trump—President Trump—firmly believed that the election irregularities had led to inappropriate results,” Lauro said.
The question of whether Trump truly believed the election was stolen is likely to become a major theme of the trial. Responding to Lauro’s claims, former U.S. AttorneySunday that Pence would likely be a devastating witness for Trump on that subject. "The conversations that Pence had with Trump show a guilty mind. When the president says, 'You are too honest,' that is code for 'I know I am asking you to do something illegal,'" he said.
, was a January 1, 2021 phone call in which Pence allegedly told Trump he felt he did not have constitutional authority to reject or return electoral votes to the states on January 6. In response, according to the document, Trump said, “You’re too honest.”
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