Former vice president Mike Pence’s extensive grand jury testimony, a historic rebuke of a former president detailed in the sweeping indictment of Donald Trump released this week, sparked new tensions in the Republican presidential race.
Former vice president Mike Pence’s extensive grand jury testimony, a historic rebuke of a former presidentof Donald Trump released this week, sparked new tensions in the Republican presidential race, with the once-loyal Pence sharpening his criticism of his former running mate and drawing stern blowback in his long-shot bid.
While he raised it in blunt terms in his launch speech, Pence hasn’t made Jan. 6 a key focus of his campaign. But as he mounts a historically rare challenge of a president under whom he served in the No. 2 slot, his unique role in Trump’s legal entanglements, as a key witness, adds another extraordinary layer to the competition.
Pence’s team was questioned months before the former vice president, and most of the material was known to prosecutors before Pence came before the grand jury earlier this year. But Pence’s recollections of some calls were important because they were without any staff from the vice president’s office, meaning Pence was the only one on their end who knew what was said, Pence advisers said. Pence’s notes were not shared with the congressional committee that investigated the Jan.
In the days after Jan. 6, Pence and Trump met for several hours and “there was a sense of reconciliation about that horrific day,” Short said. But within a couple of months of that meeting, Short said, Trump began to “adopt language he used prior to Jan. 6 in misrepresenting what the vice president’s role on that day was” and Pence “felt it was less productive to continue those conversations.”
During a speech at the Indiana State Fair on Wednesday, Pence did not mention Trump. Instead, he spoke about fighting inflation and how he would change President Biden’s economic policy by reducing spending, making the Trump administration tax cuts permanent and overhauling entitlement spending.
During the call, Pence repeated many of his catchphrases, including, “I’m a conservative, but I am not in a bad mood about it,” and “I can’t say I love politics, but I love people.” And he pointed to policy contrasts he has sought to draw with Trump.
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