in a lifeless book, that h wrote titled so help me god. mike pence appears to have tol his story to other authors like possibly bob woodward, an robert costa as an unnamed source for their books about the final days of the trum white house. and now mike pence will testif under oath to jack smith s grand jury about every singl word that donald trump said to him when he was trying to ge vice president mike pence to break the law and overturn the presidential election on january 6th. if those conversations wit mike pence or evidence tha donald trump committed a crime mike pence could be the star witness, the michael cohen i the case of donald j trump united states of america versu donald j trump if donald trump is charged b jack smith s grand jury with crimes leading up to and o january 6th. mike pence s refusal to appeal that he must testify, is a indication of just how muc mike pence himself might not have believed the absurdis grounds of which he wa claiming that he did not h
Whatwe that means, its to use e power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring orfi injuring the national interest, or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. Now, this question of whether the president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. And president nixon famously said, if the president does it, it is notde illegal. And this body rejected that because thats not so. That goes directly contrary to what the founders said. But President Trump has said the same thing in responding to the prior investigation by the Department Of Justice and defending his conduct. Heres what he said. I have an article 2 where i have the right to do whatever i want as president. That he has the right to do whatever he wants as president. That is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing. That is not what
this erroneous case. but i agree with you that it s much more likely that the vice president has if he is truthful, key information. it could go as far a mar-a-lago, as he hears abou documents being taken, and training that has been given t him in the president about wha was his or not his, and what were not his to obviously to much more central things to th january 6th investigation. and private conversations including, just, did he thin that they won the election of course, he was the vice president, did he have any conversations with the president about whether they one are not? but i think that a key thing i have always thought would be critical for vice presiden pence, is that if the januar fifth email, where you have th president saying that the vice president agrees that he has the power to not count the votes. the reason that so critical is that the vice president and th grand jury say that that is no true, and i did not say it, an that was not my position
anti-corruption platform, but he was an untried politician with a relationship to a controversial ukrainian oligarch. when vice president pence met with president zelensky in i m -sorry, when vice presiden pence met with president zelensky ine war saw on septemr 1, he stressed to him the need for reform and reiterated the president s concern about burden sharing, especially young european allies. in late august and early accept afterly his party took control the ukrainian parliament, they passed reforms to fight corruption. these included removing par rimtrim limitary immunity. imagine if members of our congress had immunity. president trump then lifted the assistance and wet p president zelensky two weeks later. the aid was paused for 55 days. very simply, the evidence does