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Trump’s pressure campaign on Pence is focus of third hearing on Jan. 6 insurrection

J. Michael Luttig, second from left, former U.S. Court of Appeals judge for Fourth Circuit, and Greg Jacob, former counsel to Vice President Mike Pence, arrive to testify before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 16, 2022, in Washington, D.C..

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign urging Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally overturn the 2020 presidential election was the focus of a hearing Thursday by the House committee investigating Jan. 6, 2021, which presented evidence making the case that Trump put Pence’s life in danger during the Capitol insurrection.

The committee laid out a last-ditch plan pushed by Trump and California attorney John Eastman to persuade Pence to reject the votes of certain states or send results to state legislatures to determine whether fraud

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