Special counsel Jack Smith's team has unveiled evidence suggesting that former President Donald Trump and his co-conspirators engaged in a scheme to manipulate then-Vice President Mike Pence regarding his role in the election certification process leading up to January 6, 2021. The evidence includes contemporaneous notes reportedly written by Pence during a meeting.
According to the filing, Trump personally tasked one of his associates, John Eastman, with persuading Pence to reject the official electoral college votes on January 6. Pence's notes from the meeting allegedly documented Trump's statements implying that rules could be changed in the presence of fraud and that the decision was ultimately up to Pence himself.
