Pence won’t say if criminal conviction should rule Trump out as president

Presidential candidate and former vice-president Mike Pence speaks at the Gathering in Atlanta on Friday. Photograph: Ben Gray/AP

Donald Trump’s former vice-president, Mike Pence, refused to say if Trump should be barred from returning to the White House if he is convicted on any of 91 criminal charges against him.

“I think that he’s to be left to the American people,” Pence told ABC’s This Week, on Sunday. “Let’s have the former president have his day in court. Let’s maintain a presumption of innocence.”