Prosecutors say Pence suggested a 'face-saving option' for Trump accepting a 2020 election loss weeks before the January 6 attack.
Former Vice President Mike Pence's repeated attempts to convince Donald Trump to accept he lost the 2020 election have been detailed in new court filings.Special counsel Jack Smith's team listed multiple alleged discussions Trump and Pence had in the post-2020 election period, including an apparent 'face-saving option' from Pence that the former president should not publicly concede but 'recognize the process is over.
'The filings added Pence had 'encouraged' Trump not to look at the election 'as a loss—just an intermission,' during another lunch on December 21, 2020.Later that day, Trump allegedly asked Pence in the Oval Office 'what do you think we should do?' regarding the legal challenges to the election results., to which Pence replied: 'After we have exhausted every legal process in the courts and Congress, if we still came up short, should 'take a bow.
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