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
Once again, from the washington post, pence s former chief of staff and chief counsel has both testified to the grand jury already. both were meeting and john eastman put forward the idea that pence could throw out the election results and instead recognize alternate electors supporting trump only pence can firsthand about conversations with the former president and close advisors and news breaking this afternoon of a new piece of evidence in the trump coup plot, one that is already in the hands of special counsel jack smith they commissioned a second firm to study election fraud claims after the weeks of the 2020 election and the founder of that firm was recently questioned by the justice department about his work disproving the claim. ken block founder of the firm studied more than a dozen vote fraud theories and allegations for trump s campaign and found