Judge bucks Trump, orders Pence aide to testify to Jan. 6 grand jury
Source: The Washington Post
By Spencer S. Hsu, Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany
October 14, 2022 at 12:30 p.m. EDT
A former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence returned before a grand jury Thursday to testify in a criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election after federal courts overruled President Donald Trump’s objections to the testimony, according to people familiar with the matter.
In a sealed decision that could clear the way for other top Trump White House officials to answer questions before a grand jury, Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled that former Pence chief of staff Marc Short probably possessed information important to the Justice Department’s criminal investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol that was not available from other sources, one of those people said.
Trump appealed, but the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused to postpone Short’s appearance while the litigation continues, the people said, signaling that attempts by Trump to invoke executive privilege to preserve the confidentiality of presidential decision-making were not likely to prevail.
The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/14/marc-short-grand-jury-testify-pence-trump/
The walls are closing in. Slowly, but they are.
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I'm pretty sure he's been Pence's Chief of Staff for the entire 4 years. He must know a LOT of dirt on Chump. He won't be hampered by a misplaced loyalty to Chump, we can be sure of that.
