First Thing: Pence would be Trump’s ‘best witness’ in election conspiracy trial, attorney says

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Good morning. Donald Trump’s attorney has suggested Mike Pence could help his former boss fight off the 2020 election-related criminal conspiracy charges against Trump, claiming that the former vice-president would be the “best witness” for the defense. In an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, the attorney John Lauro played down differences between the former president and Pence’s accounts of what happened in the run-up to the January 6 2021 certification of Joe Biden’s victory over Trump, whose supporters attacked the US Capitol that day. Asked whether he feared that Pence would be called as a prosecution witness...