Former vice president, a potential star witness in the latest indictment, told a TV interview they asked him to ‘literally reject votes’
Donald Trump and his “crackpot” lawyers told Mike Pence to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, the former vice president has claimed.
“I was confident as a student of American history that those founders would have never vested the vice president or anyone else with unilateral authority to decide what Electoral College votes to count,” he told Fox News.
“But let’s be clear on this point. It wasn’t just that [Mr Trump] asked for a pause. The president specifically asked me – and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me – to literally reject votes, essentially to overturn the election.”
Refusing to formally certify Joe Biden’s victory would have resulted in “chaos,” he added.