Marc Short, the chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence, has testified before the Jan. 6 committee, CNN reported on Monday.
It’s unclear what exactly Short told the committee, but he’s seen as a key witness and the testimony he gave last Wednesday was “lengthy,” according to one of CNN’s sources. Short was with Pence in the Capitol on Jan. 6 and participated in a relevant White House meeting two days earlier.
The Jan. 6 committee has for months now been investigating former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Pence was central to those efforts. Trump and his conspirators pushed Pence to block the certification of the election results on Jan. 6, to no avail. His refusal to carry out the scheme detailed in a memo penned by former Trump lawyer John Eastman turned him into a pariah among the MAGA faithful. Some Trump supporters…
