WATCH: Trump called Pence a ‘wimp’ amid pressure campaign to overturn election, aide says
June 16, 2022
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as posted by the channelDuring a Jan. 6 Committee hearing on June 16, the committee played edited testimony from witnesses to a phone call, in which President Donald Trump pressured former Vice President Mike Pence to change his position on counting electoral votes.
Several people in the room, including Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, testified to how “heated” the telephone discussion became. Aides said Trump used words like “wimp” and the “p-word” against Pence.
The hearing was the third of several planned by the Jan. 6 committee that focused on Trump’s efforts to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to reject Congress' official count of Electoral College votes on the day of the attack. In the year since its creation, the committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, seeking critical information and documents from people witness to, or involved in, the violence that day. The committee postponed a hearing scheduled for June 15 that was meant to focus on Trump's efforts to replace Attorney General Bill Barr, who did not support his claims of voter fraud after the election.
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