'Fascinating': Republican questions whether Mike Pence and Bill Barr will 'testify truthfully' in GA trial
06 December 2023
One of "upwards to 150 names" that Fulton County, Georgia prosecutors listed in the racketeering case against ex-President Donald Trump and 18 others, former President Mike Pence was officially included on that list Wednesdsay.
MSNBC's Deadline: White House guest host Alicia Menendez pointed out that "there's a multitude of Republicans who are likely to testify in the Georgia case," and that "Pence would be the highest ranking Republican," telling panelist and Bulwark writer Tim Miller to "take a listen to what [Pence] has said about fraud in Georgia."
The ex-vice president said, "Frankly, there's no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person can choose which votes to count for the American presidency. Despite what the former president and his allies have said now for more than two and a half years and continue to insist to this very hour, the Georgia election was not stolen, and I had no right to overturn the election on January 6th."
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Menendez then said, "So you have some Georgia Republicans testifying; you got Mike Pence testifying. How does that then scramble Trump's claim that all this is a partisan witch hunt?"
Miller replied, "It scrambles it quite a bit, and then the key state for 2024 — I'll defer to [former prosecutor] Barbara [McQuade]'s expertise on the legal ramifications of the Georgia trial that the former president would face. But it looks like he's going to be the nominee for the Republican Party. And it is fascinating to think that he would be running in a state, a key state that he would probably need to win if he were to win the presidency again, and have major officials, Republican elected officials within the state, and his own vice president, his own attorney general, testifying against him in the same state about his attempts to steal that election the last time. And to me, the thing that becomes the most fascinating in all this is, how can you, if you're Mike Pence or [ex-Attorney General] Bill Barr, testify truthfully to Fani Willis about Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the election — they both testified that to the January 6th committee, so we know what they're going to say in broad strokes — how can you do that and then go out and endorse Donald Trump's presidential campaign? It doesn't make sense. The two don't work together."
He continued, "And I think that's a fascinating political question that will have real ramifications [...] for a key swing vote group, which is Atlanta suburban, former Republicans, that maybe voted for [Georgia Governor] Brian Kemp, but went for Joe Biden last time. And I think Pence and the others that are testifying have sway with that key swing group."
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