Donald Trump's Lawyer's Ominous Prediction for Trial Comes True

Donald Trump's lawyer's prediction that Mike Pence would be called as a witness in his Georgia election subversion case has come true, according to reports.

The former president and 18 co-defendants are facing charges from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis around trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 41 counts, including racketeering, violating the oath of a public officer, perjury, forgery and false statements.

According to CNN sources, prosecutors have officially listed the former vice president as a witness who could be called to testify at trial. However witness lists have not been made public and Newsweek was unable to verify this information.

Newsweek has contacted representatives for Pence by email to comment on this story.

On Friday, Trump's lead counsel in the Georgia case, Steve Sadow, predicted the District Attorney's office may attempt to call Pence as a witness, while arguing the Georgia case mirrors Trump's federal indictment regarding election interference.

Pence also appeared before a grand jury on a federal indictment brought against Trump by special counsel Jack Smith in August, over allegedly plotting to stay in power after losing the election, despite knowing he had fairly lost to Joe Biden.

In the federal indictment, Trump is also accused of trying to pressure Pence to stop the certification of the election results by either convincing him to accept the fake electors' false assessment that Trump had won in seven states, or by trying to get Pence to send legitimate electoral votes to state legislatures for review, rather than counting them. Trump has denied all wrongdoing.

In an interview with CNN this summer, Pence said he would comply with the law if he was called to testify in the federal case but said he had no plans to. "I have no plans to testify, but, look, we'll always comply with the law," he said.

If he does, he could emerge as a "killer witness" against Trump, according to law professor and former U.S. attorney Harry Litman.

Indeed, Pence has in the past countered Trump's narrative about the 2020 election.

"Despite what the former president and his allies have said for now more than two and a half years and continue to insist ... the Georgia election was not stolen, and I had no right to overturn the election on January 6," he said at the National Conference of State Legislatures after Trump was indicted in the federal indictment.

Some of Trump's other co-defendants in the Georgia case, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro and Scott Hall, have accepted plea deals in the case.

Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee has not made a decision on the trial schedule yet.