Who Is Marc Short? - The New York Times

The day before a mob of supporters of President Donald J. Trump stormed the Capitol, Marc Short, the chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, warned that the president was about to turn publicly on Mr. Pence, potentially placing a target on his back.

Mr. Short informed Mr. Pence’s lead Secret Service agent about the risk on Jan. 5, an episode that he confirmed Wednesday night on CNN, and his warning proved prescient. The next day, rioters descended on the Capitol as Congress met to count the electoral votes confirming Mr. Trump’s defeat, chanting “Hang Mike Pence” and assembling a gallows.

And Mr. Trump, according to an account provided to the House panel investigating the attack, complained that Mr. Pence was being whisked to safety, telling Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, that perhaps the vice president should be hanged.

Mr. Short’s private testimony to the committee, provided in January under subpoena, came to be crucial because of his seniority and proximity to Mr. Pence. Mr. Short was involved in meetings with an outside legal adviser to Mr. Trump who had schemed ways for the president to stay in power. He was also with Mr. Pence when pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.

And he had a front-row seat to the souring relationship between Mr. Pence and Mr. Trump in the days leading up to Jan. 6, when the president leaned on the vice president to overturn the election results and Mr. Pence resisted.

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