Vice President Mike Pence, despite hopes he’d invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump for instigating the attack on the U.S.
Capitol, won’t draw on the never-before used power and instead will do “very little” until Trump is out of office, a senior Republican insider close to Pence told the Washington Blade.
The insider, speaking to the Blade on Monday evening, said instead Pence will seek to “run down the clock” until Trump’s term expires on Jan.
20 amid House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) threats to move forward with impeachment if Trump doesn’t resign and Pence doesn’t invoke the 25th Amendment.