Tuesday’s indictment of Donald Trump on felony charges, for working to overturn the results of the 2020 election and his role in the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, features six unnamed co-conspirators—and one very frequently named man who is not facing charges: former Vice President Mike Pence. In fact, a not-insignificant amount of the evidence in the indictment seems to come from the hand of the ex-president’s right hand.

In the 45-page document, Pence makes more than a few cameo appearances. Throughout December 2020 and January 2021, Pence is routinely being brought into meetings with the president and his co-conspirators, and being informed of his evolving role at the center of the attempted coup, when Pence was expected to pull off the ever-changing plan. As co-conspirator 2 put it, “In the end, Pence then gavels President Trump as re-elected.’”

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As we all now know, Pence didn’t do that—nor did he heroically condemn the president and go straight to the press, the police, or much of anywhere. What he did do, though, was take thorough and “contemporaneous notes,” which the Department of Justice seems to have leaned on heavily—and references explicitly and repeatedly—in its case against Trump.

As the indictment has it, “On several private phone calls in late December and early January, the Defendant repeated knowingly false claims of election fraud and directly pressured the Vice President to use his ceremonial role at the certification...

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