Marc Short, former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, on Wednesday confirmed reports that he had alerted the Secret Service ahead of Jan. 6 insurrection to possible danger facing his boss because of assertions that President Donald Trump was increasingly making publicly that Pence had the power to overturn the 2020 election results.
Appearing on CNN, Short said he was concerned about a planned rally of Trump supporters in Washington on Jan. 6, the day Congress was set to count electoral votes. Pence presided over the counting in his capacity as president of the Senate that day.
“I think with thousands of people descending upon Washington with hopes of a different [election] outcome, I just thought it was important that they be alerted to that,” Short said of the Secret Service. “But I didn’t have any specific intelligence, I did not have any knowledge the Capitol would be attacked the way it was.”
Short is not among the announced live witnesses at Thursday’s hearing, but the committee investigating the insurrection is expected to play clips of closed-door testimony he previously provided. Short said on CNN that he had testified for about eight hours.
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