It’s the sort of plot development that feels almost predestined: A “small number” of classified documents were found at former Vice President Mike Pence’s home in Indiana, we learned Tuesday. The news injects yet another bit of complexity into the politics surrounding the documents that have been retrieved from both former President Donald Trump’s and President Joe Biden’s residences.
But Trump gains no support from his former No. 2’s becoming a part of this narrative. On the contrary, when they are held up against the timeline before and after the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago, Pence’s actions show how much of the ongoing jeopardy Trump faces is of his own making.
NBC News reported Tuesday that Greg Jacob, a lawyer who acts as Pence’s designated representative to the National Archives and Records Administration, sent two letters to the archives in the last week. In the first, dated Jan. 18, Jacob requests the agency’s assistance in collecting “a small number of…
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