Former Vice President Mike Pence testified Thursday before a federal grand jury investigating alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
According to CNN, Pence testified for more than five hours.
While adviser Marc Short did not confirm Pence’s appearance on Thursday, he addressed the legal back-and-forth over the testimony, according to CNN.
“I think that the vice president, you know, had his own case based on the Speech and Debate Clause. He was pleased that for the first time a judge acknowledged that it applied to the vice president of the United States,” Short said in an interview on NewsNation afterward. “But he was willing to comply with the law, and courts have ordered him to testify.”
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“We’ll obey the law, we’ll tell the truth,” Pence said in an interview with CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that aired Sunday. “And the story that I’ve been telling the American people all across the country, the story that I wrote in the pages of my memoir, that’ll be the story I tell in that setting.”
Pence, a former Indiana governor, and congressman, has said that Trump endangered his family and everyone else who was at the Capitol that day and history will hold him “accountable.”
“For four years, we had a close working relationship. It did not end well,” Pence wrote, summing up their time in the White House.
Pence’s appearance before the grand jury is a significant development in the Justice Department’s investigation. Pence is a key witness to the events of January 6, and prosecutors are hoping his testimony provides them with information about Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in connection with the January 6 riot. He has also attacked the Justice Department’s investigation, calling it a “witch hunt.”
It is unclear what impact Pence’s testimony will have on the Justice Department’s investigation.
In March, Federal Judge James Boasberg ruled that Pence must testify in the Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into the degree of involvement the former president had with the storming of the Capitol.
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