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Former Vice President Mike Pence has been formally added to a witness list of those being asked to testify against his old boss, former President Donald Trump, in his Georgia trial on charges of election interference, it emerged Wednesday.
Pence was among 150 people on a list submitted by Fulton County prosecutors, according to CNN, which cited multiple sources familiar with the documents that remain under seal.
The former VP, who recently dropped out of the 2024 Republican presidential race, has previously expressed his willingness to testify — and has been the most outspoken former Trump ally to trash his claims that voter fraud cost him re-election.
“Despite what the former president and his allies have said for now more than two and a half years and continue to insist … the Georgia election was not stolen, and I had no right to overturn the election on Jan. 6,” Pence told the National Conference of State Legislatures following Trump’s 13-count indictment in August.
Pence also told CNN that month: “I have no plans to testify, but look, we’ll always comply with the law.”
He also told CBS News, “We’ll respond to the call of the law if it comes and we’ll just tell the truth.”
Trump is accused of violating Georgia’s anti-racketeering law, conspiracy, filing false documents, making false statements and asking a public official to violate their oath of office so he could remain in power despite losing the 2020 presidential election.
The 2024 Republican frontrunner has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
By Friday, Trump’s lead counsel in a federal election interference case, Steve Sadow, indicated he thought the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office may attempt to call Pence as a witness.
Sadow made the revelation as he pushed for access to documents and materials held by special counsel Jack Smith that may be relevant to the state case.
Sadow argued in court that Trump’s federal case is largely “a mirror case” to his case in Fulton County, and he therefore needs a list of evidence from that case.
“There is no doubt that the special counsel’s office… has relevant and material information that deals with the allegations in this case,” the attorney said, specifically referencing notes Pence took after the 2020 presidential election.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee agreed there was a “great deal” of overlap between the two cases, and said Georgia prosecutors should consider reaching out to Smith to coordinate discovery.
Meanwhile, District Attorney Fani Willis has requested a trial date of Aug. 5 for the former president and his remaining co-defendants.
The suggested start is exactly three months before the 2024 presidential election, a period during which Trump would likely be hitting the campaign trail hard if he were the GOP nominee.
“This proposed trial date balances potential delays from Defendant Trump’s other criminal trials in sister sovereigns and the other Defendants’ constitutional speedy trial rights,” Willis wrote in a Friday filing to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee.
The district attorney noted that Trump is currently slated to go on trial March 4 in Washington in the federal 2020 election interference case, and in Florida on May 20 to face charges of keeping national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate after leaving office.
“A start date of August 5, 2024, is therefore unlikely to be subject to delay or interference from these other trials,” she added.
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