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In this representation from video released by the House Select Committee, Vice President Mike Pence looks astatine a telephone rom his unafraid evacuation determination connected Jan. 6 that is displayed arsenic House prime committee investigating the Jan. 6 onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol holds a proceeding Thursday, June 16, 2022, connected Capitol Hill successful Washington.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence has been issued a subpoena by the special counsel overseeing transgression investigations of ex-President Donald Trump, 1 of which is focused connected Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, NBC News confirmed Thursday evening.
Pence, who served nether Trump, was pressured by him to garbage to judge the certifications of the Electoral College slates of respective states that gave President Joe Biden his borderline of triumph successful the 2020 race.
Pence did not hold with Trump's petition erstwhile helium presided implicit a associated league of Congress that confirmed Biden's victory.
That associated league connected Jan. 6, 2021, was interrupted for hours by a mob of Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol, sending Pence and members of Congress fleeing to fell from the invaders. Trump refused for hours to enactment connected requests that helium publically telephone connected his supporters to permission the Capitol.
ABC News archetypal reported that peculiar counsel Jack Smith had subpoenaed Pence. ABC besides reported that the subpoena was issued aft months of negotiations betwixt national prosecutors and Pence's ineligible team.
It was not wide whether Smith is seeking Pence's testimony, documents, oregon both.
Spokesmen for some Pence and Smith declined to remark connected the subpoena.
Smith antecedently issued a subpoena seeking documents from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, whom Trump had pressured successful aboriginal 2021 to "find" him capable votes successful that authorities to flooded his ballot shortage to Biden there.
Smith is besides investigating Trump for removing White House documents, galore of which were classified, and shipping them to his Mar-a-Lago nine successful Palm Beach, Florida, wherever helium has lived since leaving office.
Smith was appointed peculiar counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland aft Trump declared his candidacy for the 2024 Republican statesmanlike nomination.
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