Former VP Mike Pence is revealed to have subpoenaed a special counsel that’s exclusively made to investigate Donald Trump for his role on 6th January 2021. Special counsel at Jack Smith’s office will be seeking out documents along with testimony in relation to 6th January.
What This Subpoena Might Bring Out On The Conversations With Mike Pence And Trump?
They are demanding Mike Pence for testifying on his interactions related to Trump which was leading for the 2020 elections followed by the U.S. Capitol attack. The referred subpoena will be marked as a historical milestone for the Justice Department for its two-year-long criminal investigation. This will be now escorted by the special counsel in favor of Trump and his allies to impede the transfer of power after his loss in the elections 2020.
Pence is the key witness who in his memoir has detailed the whereabouts of his interactions with Donald Trump within the weeks of the elections, working as a doorway for the Department of Justice to sweep in who can now override at least a few claims of Trump’s executive privilege.
Attorney to Mike Pence, Emmet Flood who’s widely known as the hawk for executive privilege, people familiar with this progression have revealed that they expected Pence to have at least some claims on the limits of providing details to these direct conversations by Trump. The responses will be dependent on his reactions, the prosecutors will have the upper hand to ask the judge for compelling him to answer additional questions overriding Trump’s executive rights to privilege claim.
ABC News came in first with the news of the subpoena. Though Mike Pence’s office withdrew from any confirmation of the speculations of him being subpoenaed. The spokesman to special counsel declined to make any further comments regarding the matter. CNN reports that months of pushing toward negotiations led to the precedent of the subpoena for the former vice president.
