Pence has ‘no plans’ to testify against Trump — unless he has to

 Former Vice President Mike Pence has “no plans” to testify against former President Donald Trump if he goes to trial for alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election, but noted that he will “respond to the call of the law.”


“I have no plans to testify, but people can be confident we’ll — we’ll obey the law,” Pence said during an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” which aired Sunday. “We’ll respond to the call of the law if it comes and we’ll just tell the truth.”

The 45-page federal indictment unveiled against Trump Tuesday details the lengths to which the former president and his allies allegedly went to try to seize a second term. In months leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Trump pressured Pence to refuse to certify President Joe Biden’s electoral votes. According to the indictment — and an excerpt from Pence’s book, “So Help Me God” — Trump told Pence that “you’re too honest” when Pence balked at the idea that he could block Biden’s victory.

The indictment also reveals that Pence kept contemporaneous notes of some of his conversations with Trump during the days leading up to Jan. 6, including a Dec. 29, 2020 conversation during which Trump falsely told him that the Justice Department was finding “major infractions” related to election fraud, according to the indictment.

Pence said Sunday that while he “didn’t make a practice of taking notes in meetings over the four-year period of time” he served as vice president, “There was from time to time, particularly at important moments, I had a practice of scribbling a note or two on my calendar just to memorialize it and remember it and I did that in this case.”

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