@nytimes: The third indictment of Donald Trump has put Mike Pence at the center of an extraordinary moment in U.S. politics. He is at once Trump’s former vice president and his rival in the race for the Republican nomination. And as Trump is prosecuted for trying to reverse the 2020 election, Pence has emerged as a critical fact witness who took, as the indictment revealed, “contemporaneous notes” on the plot — and as a man whom the president berated as “too honest” for his refusal to go along. “Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States,” Pence said on Tuesday, setting himself apart from several other Republican candidates, who largely avoided criticizing Trump, even indirectly. #jan6 #trumpindictment #pence