The sanctimonious Mike Pence has run out of moves to make to obstruct justice in the January 6 investigation any further. He can either testify fully and truthfully, or he can assert his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination for his role in the Coup Plotters conspiracy for a coup d’état on January 6, before he withdrew from that conspiracy on January 6.
ABC News reports, Pence won’t appeal judge’s decision ordering his testimony before grand jury investigating Jan. 6:
Former Vice President Mike Pence will not appeal a district court ruling and will comply with the grand jury subpoena requesting documents and testimony related to attempts to overturn the 2020 election, his spokesperson said.
“Vice President Pence will not appeal the Judge’s ruling and will comply with the subpoena as required by law,” his spokesperson, Devin O’Malley, said in a statement.
The top federal judge for the D.C. district court last week rejected former President Donald Trump’s assertion of executive privilege to prevent Pence from testifying before the grand jury, sources told ABC News.
Pence was subpoenaed in February by special counsel Jack Smith to provide documents and testimony related to Smith’s election interference probe, following months of negotiations between federal prosecutors and Pence’s legal team, sources said.
In addition to claims of executive privilege, Pence’s attorneys had argued that Pence should be exempt from providing records or answering certain questions that align with his duties as president of the Senate overseeing the formal certification of the election on Jan. 6, 2021.
Pence’s team had argued that such communications could run afoul of the Speech and Debate Clause that shields officials in Congress from legal proceedings specifically related to their work.
D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg narrowly upheld parts of that legal challenge, ruling last week that Pence should have to provide answers to the special counsel on any questions that implicate any illegal acts on Trump’s part, according to sources.
So tough guy backed down.
Smith, a longtime federal prosecutor and former head of the Justice Department’s public integrity section, was tapped in November by Attorney General Merrick Garland as special counsel to oversee the DOJ’s investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and Trump’s handling of classified materials after leaving office.
Get his sanctimonious ass in front of the criminal grand jury ASAP. This would signify that the Special Counsel is getting close to making a final indictment decision. There are still the Trump aides the Court has ordered to testify to the criminal grand jury, including Mark Meadows.
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