The renowned ex-federal appellate judge who advised then-vice president Mike Pence against participating in Donald Trump’s scheme to overturn the 2020 election results plans to tell the House January 6 select committee that Mr Trump’s scheme was a “well-developed plan” and part of an ongoing “war on democracy instigated by the former president and his political party allies”.
Retired Fourth Circuit Judge J Michael Luttig will tell committee members that Mr Trump “instigated” his attack on American democracy “so that he could cling to power that the American People had decided to confer upon his successor, the next president of the United States instead,” according to a copy of his opening statement, which was first published by CNN.
