ex-president it all but ensures that special counsel jack smith will hear from the key witness who none of the other investigations into the trump cou plot not the fulton county d.a. has ever heard from under oath we re, of course, talking about mike pence a ruling handed down wednesday night by a federal appeals court rejects an emergency request by trump to block mike pence s testimony. new york times reports this, quote, the 11th hour ruling by the u.s. court of appeals for the district of colombia paves the way for mr. pence to appear before the federal grand jury as early as this week the ex-president has a few legal options left including an appeal to the supreme court but as nbc news reports, quote, in previous instances, where appeals sent senior aides must testify, his legal team has opted no the to fight the decision further and those witnesses have quickly appeared before the grand jury and trump s argument that executive privilege prevents pence or any of his ai
Out. won t trump supporters be dubious about anything the crimes that he committed in plain view obstructing the official proceeding is illegal. is the mindset really you think going to be to more aggressive on what is viewed by trump voters as also a crime is that what you re saying i don t think it is so much the voters the i think that, you re right, those who are most in the trump camp, this is a witchunt that there was election fraud will, you know, cry foul no matter what charges are brought if there are charges brought. i think there are some probably, you know, on capitol hill that also do that there are others that may be a little more moderate and feel like this charge is more incendiary but even if i utter the words, it sounds silly. it was incendiary that day