Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks during an event to advertise his recent book on the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank on October 19, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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The Department of Justice desires to query former Vice President Mike Pence for its criminal investigation of ex-President Donald Trump’s efforts to stay within the White House after he lost the 2020 election, The Recent York Times reported Wednesday.
Pence is considering cooperating with the probe, which last week saw Attorney General Merrick Garland appoint a special counsel to oversee the investigation, in accordance with the Times.
Pence previously refused to cooperate with the select House committee that’s investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
“Thomas Windom, considered one of the lead investigators examining the efforts to overturn the election, reached out to Mr. Pence’s team within the weeks before” Garland appointed special counsel Jack Smith for that probe, the Times reported.
The Republican Trump, since losing the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, has falsely claimed he won the race, and that the Democrat’s victory was the results of widespread ballot fraud in several swing states.
A mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and disrupted for hours a joint session of Congress that was meeting to certify Biden’s Electoral College win.
Pence was presiding over that session when rioters swarmed through the Capitol. He was taken to a secure location throughout the complex as police battled the mob.
