'Snake Oil Salesmen' Advised Trump On 2020 Election: Pence AIde

Former President 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.

Photo Insert: Marc Short is the former chief of staff of Mike Pence

"Unfortunately, the president 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, Sarah Lynch reported for Reuters.

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.

"I believe that Joe Biden is the duly elected President of the United States," Short said 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, who was with Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump's supporters stormed the US Capitol in a failed bid to overturn the election results, recently appeared before the House Select Committee investigating the siege to answer questions.

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."

Last week, the National Archives announced it would be turning over Pence's records to the panel after Trump lost a legal bid to block the committee from seeing them.

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