returned last week by a federal grand jury that had been examining Trump’s possible role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
“A technical violation of the Constitution is not a violation of criminal law," Lauro contended, calling it"just plain wrong" to suggest that Trump had pressed Pence to break the law.“These kinds of constitutional and statutory disagreements don’t lead to criminal charges," Lauro argued."And one thing that Mr. Pence has never said is that he thought President Trump was acting criminally.
Pence elaborated on the subject on Sunday, telling CBS News'"Face the Nation" that Trump,"from sometime in the middle of December" 2020"began to be told that I had some authority to reject or return votes back to the states." “Trump believed in his heart of hearts that he had won that election and, as any American citizen, he had a right to speak out under the First Amendment,” Lauro said., however, acknowledges the former president’s right under the First Amendment to “speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been outcome-determinative fraud during the election and that he had won.
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