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Former Vice President Mike Pence warned the Justice Department that it should “give careful consideration” before potentially indicting former President Donald Trump.
Pence made the comments in an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd that was recorded Thursday, before Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of a special counsel to handle federal investigations into the 76-year-old former president.
The former veep told Todd that he doesn’t believe Trump is above the law but the DOJ should be careful before taking “additional steps.”
“Chuck, no one is above the law. But I would hope the Justice Department would give careful consideration before they take any additional steps in this matter,” Pence said.
Pence also argued that “this is really a time when our country ought to be healing,” and he railed against the DOJ’s Mar-a-Lago raid in search of White House documents and FBI agents “advancing political agendas” during the Trump presidency.
