Pence tweeted Thursday evening that he would be appearing on Sean Hannity’s show. Then news of Trump’s impeachment hit and Pence didn’t appear on the show. The decision was mutual, a campaign spokesperson told Insider. Loading Loading something.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence missed a scheduled appearance with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity on Thursday, shortly after the U.S. Department of Justice indicted former President Donald Trump.
As of Thursday evening, Pence had yet to issue a statement on the indictment, which centers on secret documents Trump kept at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, from his time as president. Pence almost certainly would have been asked about the charges in the Hannity interview, which producers ended up devoting entirely to interviewing conservative legal experts and political observers about the impeachment.
Devin O’Malley, a spokesman for the campaign, told Insider that the original purpose of the interview had been to discuss Pence’s 2024 campaign announcement for the presidency, but then the show’s organizers wanted to focus -se in the breaking news about the indictment.
“We mutually decided to find another time to bring the two together,” he said.
News of the indictment broke 1.5 hours before Hannity’s show began. Pence had previewed the Fox News appearance in the afternoon via a Twitter post, which was later deleted.
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Pence entered the 2024 presidential nomination for a long shot on Wednesday, when he sharply rebuked his former boss for pressuring him to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election after Biden won the presidency. Trump, he said, “should never be president of the United States again.”
It is unclear what position Pence will take on the documents case. Pence had also classified documents at his home in Carmel, Indiana, but turned them over to federal authorities. His home was searched after it was discovered that President Joe Biden also had classified documents in his garage in Wilmington, Delaware, and in an office in Washington, DC, from his time as vice president.
Federal prosecutors are charging Trump with seven criminal counts, seconds to numerous reports. Among them are obstruction of justice and false statements. Those charges could carry decades in prison.
The public first became aware of the documents investigation in August 2022, when the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. They seized several boxes of documents Trump took from the White House, some of which were marked “top secret.”
Trump will appear in federal court in Miami on Tuesday afternoon, he told Truth Social, his social media platform. At that time he or his lawyers they are expected enter a plea of ”not guilty.”
