Former Vice President Mike Pence took notes of his conversations with Donald Trump in the days leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, a federal indictment of Trump revealed.
Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley joins 'America's Newsroom' to discuss how the latest indictment of former President Donald Trump could impact free speech in America.took"contemporaneous notes" of his conversations with Donald Trump in the days before the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, Special Counsel Jack Smith's indictment of the former president revealed Tuesday.
According to Smith, Pence called Trump on Dec. 25, 2020, to wish him a Merry Christmas but Trump"quickly turned the conversation to January 6 and his request that the Vice President reject electoral votes that day." Pence pushed back, asserting that he lacked the authority to change the election outcome. had discovered evidence of illegal activity in the election.
This argument allegedly continued for several days. Then on Jan. 3,"Co-Conspirator 2 circulated a second memorandum that included a new plan under which, contrary to the ECA, the Vice President would send the elector slates to the state legislatures to determine which slate to count," the indictment states.
Trump was indicted Tuesday on four federal charges out of the Jack Smith's probe: conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights.he would have to publicly criticize him." at his now-infamous rally in Washington, D.C.
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