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.
Former Vice President Mike Pence did not make a scheduled appearance with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday, shortly after the U.S. Department of Justice. accused 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, as producers ended up devoting the entirety of the show to interviewing conservative legal experts and political observers about the indictment.
Devin O’Malley, a spokesman for the campaign, told Insider that the original purpose of the interview had been to discuss the announcement of Pence’s 2024 presidential campaign, but then the show ended up focusing on the news of ‘last hour on the accusation. The interview would be rescheduled, he said.
News of the indictment broke an hour and a half before Hannity’s show began. Pence had previewed the Fox News appearance in the afternoon via a Twitter post that was later deleted.
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Pence entered the 2024 presidential nomination for a long-shot bid on Wednesday, when he harshly rebuked his former boss for pressuring him to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election after Biden won the presidency. Trump, Pence said, “should never be president of the United States again.”
It’s unclear what position Pence will take on the case. Pence too, had classified documents at his home in Carmel, Indiana, but turned them over to federal authorities. He searched his home 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, since 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 told Truth Social, his social media platform, that he would file charges in federal court in Miami on Tuesday afternoon. At that time, he or his lawyers they are expected enter a plea of ”not guilty.”
