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Former Vice President Mike Pence, whose bid for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination earlier this year was shortlived, reportedly provided details to special counsel Jack Smith about the aftermath of the 2020 election that doesn’t put former President Donald Trump in a good light, according to a published report.
“Speaking with special counsel Jack Smith’s team earlier this year,” ABC News reported, Pence “offered harrowing details about how, in the wake of the 2020 presidential election,” Trump “surrounded himself with ‘crank’ attorneys, espoused ‘un-American’ legal theories, and almost pushed the country toward a ‘constitutional crisis,’ according to sources familiar with what Pence told investigators.”
The outlet also reported that Pence told federal investigators he is “sure” that, in the days before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol Building, he told Trump he had yet to see any real evidence of significant election fraud, adding that the then-president was not convinced and continued to make claims of a “stolen” election while…
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