Is Marc Short testifying to Committee with the approval of Mike Pence?

[kentuck]

He was the former VP's Chief of Staff, so it is unlikely he would talk to the Committee without first discussing it with his former boss, in my opinion.

What does it mean? Has Mike Pence given his staff the green light to tell everything they know to the Select Committee?

It has been reported recently that the staff of Pence was very unhappy with the way he was being treated by the former Criminal-in-Chief. They wanted to tell what happened on January 6th.

I do not expect Mr Short to be taking the "Fifth". He will tell the Committee everything he knows. And that could be a lot?

[gab13by13]

1. I hope not,

[BlueJac]

2. Just tell us what happened, everything!

[Hortensis]

3. No idea, but like Dan Quayle he strongly advised Pence to

refuse to obey tRump, so on the side of Truth, Justice and the American Way that day at least. Or maybe he thought it was destined to fail.

It would seem that if tRump were to become effectively dictator, his head would be on the block. Or, maybe he could work something out.

Short's a powerful man, and I assume his decisions involve many factors, work many strings, and are intended to serve various goals.

Short used to be president of the Koch brothers' Freedom Partners, raising and dispersing enormous sums of dark money to oppose just about everything the Democratic Party was for and of course to continue moving the nation right, economically especially but whatever worked for them, farther right and farther right.

As Charles Koch said about what they'd accomplished around the time he dissolved Freedom Partners in 2019, "What a mess."

[Tomconroy]

4. Politico is reporting that a number of Pence staffers are cooperating.

[rgbecker]

5. When is this scheduled?

[viva la]

6. I think they are close friends.

And Short was badly treated by Trump. His White House pass was revoked the next day.

Reading the Woodward book, I got the strong impression Short was the source of much of the Pence narrative (about Quayle, etc) and it was with Pence's approval. Also it came across that some of the probably Trump-ordered actions (deactivated passes) were interpreted to be callous at best and malicious at worst. That is, Trump wanted Pence out of the Capitol, and if he wouldn't leave, well, If he and his wife and aides were killed by the mob, so be it.

Remember what just came out last month, the tape of Trump telling Jon Karl that he understood why they'd be yelling, "Hang Mike Pence".

I get the sense that Pence wants this out. Truly, what happened to him was unconscionable. I don't like him, think he's a lapdog... but this sort of how a lapdog bites back.