As the country waits to hear what information Special Counsel Jack Smith might be able to divulge about the twice-impeached ex-president who lost the popular vote twice and tried to stage a coup, news that the investigation may have advanced significantly on Thursday night could not have been more welcome.
DEVELOPING: A special counsel overseeing probes regarding former President Donald Trump are giving former vice president Mike Pence a subpoena, multiple sources tell ABC News. https://t.co/4YkYr4u1RU
— WRTV Indianapolis (@wrtv) February 9, 2023
Former Vice President Mike Pence, the man Trump supporters erected a gallows pole to hang on the steps of the Capitol Building and yet has remained reluctant to criticize his ex-boss’s instigation of an insurrection has been subpoenaed by the special counsel in his probe of Donald Trump and the January 6 attack.
According to ABC News:
‘Former Vice President Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel overseeing probes into former President Donald Trump, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. It’s not immediately clear what information the subpoena from special counsel Jack Smith is seeking, but it follows months of negotiations between federal prosecutors and Pence’s legal team.’
Smith was assigned the task of probing Trump’s involvement in the January 6th attack as well as his broader attempts to foment a coup and overturn a democratically-decided presidential election, including his involvement in coordinating a slate of fake electors and his phone calls to the Georgia secretary of state demanding that more votes be found in his favor in November by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
No other details have yet been released and Pence’s office has not responded to reporters’ requests for comments.
Twitter celebrated the news of an advance in the trajectory of the Trump investigation. Read some of their comments below:
