THE former US president, Donald Trump appealed the decision in which a judge ordered the former vice president Mike Pence to testify in the special counsel’s investigation looking into the events surrounding the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, according to US media reports.

The Republican ex-president’s lawyers they appealed following the decision regarding the investigation into the undermining of the 2020 presidential election.

Last week Pence revealed that he himself did not intend to appeal the decision calling for him to testify before a federal grand jury about the conversations he had with Trump before the latter’s supporters attacked the Capitol. The judge had ruled that Pence could refuse to answer questions related to the events of January 6.

Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November to handle the investigations against Trump, has been presenting his evidence to multiple grand juries. The key questions are whether Trump interfered with the peaceful transfer of power after his election loss to Joe Biden and the hiding of documents, which he moved to his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, mansion after leaving the White House. House.