Trump’s Advisers Were Like ‘Snake Oil Salesman’ Says Former Pence Aide [VIDEO]

Donald Trump received bad advice from “snake oil salesmen” who falsely told him Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, Pence’s former chief of staff Marc Short said.

Short’s comments came two days after Pence rebuked Trump in a speech to the conservative Federalist Society, saying Trump was wrong to suggest the vice president has the power to overturn an election. “Unfortunately, [Trump] had many bad advisers who were basically snake oil salesman giving him really random and novel ideas as to what the vice president could do,” Short said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “I believe that Joe Biden is the duly elected President of the United States,” Short clarified.

Short, who was with Pence on January 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to overturn the election results, recently appeared before the House Select Committee investigating the siege to answer questions. on Sunday. “The reality is that there was not enough significant fraud that was presented that would have overturned any of those states’ elections,” Short said.

MIKE PENCE: “President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone. And frankly, there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president." pic.twitter.com/7feWD75Fq1

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During the attack, some of the rioters shouted “Hang Mike Pence!” and one now-convicted Trump supporter known as the “QAnon Shaman” left the Vice President a note that read: “It’s only a matter of time, justice is coming.”

Former Pence Chief of Staff Marc Short on what he thought when he heard "hang Mike Pence!" chants on January 6: "I think there was a sense of [a] tragic day … but also a sense of pride in what we accomplished in four years." pic.twitter.com/9g8mTLzdPb

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Last week, the National Archives announced it would be turning over Pence’s records to the House Select Committee after Trump lost a legal bid to block the bipartisan panel from seeing them. Short did not discuss the details of his testimony on Sunday, saying only that he was complying with a subpoena. However, he cast doubt on whether Pence would ever appear before the committee to testify, telling NBC “that would be a pretty unprecedented step.”

Former Pence chief of staff Marc Short says he "did not see a lot of legitimate political discourse" on January 6th.

Then Short takes a shot at ~unfair treatment~ by the January 6th select committee and Chuck Todd moves on to a new question. pic.twitter.com/WMWArTjQfD

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“I think it is very different to subpoena a former vice president to talk about private conversations he had with the president,” Short said. “It’s never happened before.”