Donald Trump pressured his vice-president Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election despite having been told repeatedly that doing so would be illegal, a Congressional committee has heard.
Members of the bipartisan panel investigating the attack on the US Congress were told on Thursday that Pence made clear his opposition to the former president’s plan to block the certification of the election results, including in a heated telephone call on the morning of January 6.
Nevertheless, Trump continued to insist that Pence could and might refuse to certify the election, helping to incite the mob that stormed the US Capitol after Pence announced he would not do so.