That Trump is merely window dressing and acts as the pin cushion, to take the slings and arrows.
I seem to remember that many conservatives favored Pence over Romney for the nomination in 2012. Pence also has a great deal of respect and support from the GOP.
I've always felt that the last few Presidencies were greatly influenced by other "subordinates". (e.g. dick cheney)
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There is a reason why so many cabinet appointees are former GOP house members. Pompeo is not a guy who would be running the CIA if he weren't an old House buddy of Pence.
And Pence certainly had a big victory over the Bannon/Miller wing with the firing of Flynn.
He certainly doesn't have the first clue about who should fill some of these spots.
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Now, I agree that locked up in a dark closet is a good place to keep Pence. But it's really unfair of you to blame this fiasco on Poor Mike.
Sorry, but this is all on The Don.
...Ambassador and this Administration had to duck and cover, which led to Flynn being the foil.
The "lying to the VP" story was concocted to serve this end.
which he did as a soldier.
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Link: Couldn't have said it better, myself. (;=D)
thing at the time.
Pence is too much of an insider not to have known.
I think Flynn though prolly took it a step to far in the call and that got recorded. He couldn't maintain plausible deniability which is what jammed Flynn up.
May have gone something like this. I know you were conveying a message Mike but you didn't explicitly mention sanctions relief did you? No, not that I remember.
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...ALL communications with foreign dignitaries are recorded by the NSA, a puppet of the CIA.
He, of all people should know this and be guarded in his wording, phrases, inferences etc.
He's either incompetent or there's more than meets the eye.
it is hard to believe he didn't know about the recordings. I think you are reading to much into this.
Flynn had a laps of memory--he forgot or he though he was covered.
Pence is above board--anything that jeopardizes that will lead to separation. that's what happened.
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...legal reasons actually prevented him from doing so. In the state of Indiana, of which Pence served as Governor, running for more than one office on the same ballot is illegal. Pence actually tried to get a bill passed through Indiana's legislature that would allow him an exception to the law, but the bill never made it through the Indiana legislature.
After the bill allowing the legal exception failed to gain any traction, Pence officially decided to give up a shot at becoming the Republican presidential nominee in favor of running for a second gubernatorial term. However, the question still remains: Could he have secured the Republican nomination had he ran? The answer: probably not.
Pence's nomination looked very unlikely due to his extreme social conservatism, particularly in regards to gay rights and women's rights. Specifically, in 2015 Pence received a lot of criticism for his initial strong support and signing of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which allowed businesses in Indiana to choose whether or not to serve customers based on their religious preferences; this particularly meant that gay customers were likely to be discriminated against. Pence eventually backpedaled and signed a revised version of the bill after extreme public criticism.
Pence also has a very conservative stance on abortion rights, and directly prior to the Republican presidential primaries, he signed House Bill 1337 into law, an abortion bill "so extreme" that even many Republicans disagreed with it. Among other requirements, the bill banned abortions based on disability, sex, race, ancestry, or nationality. It also required pregnant women to view a fetal ultrasound and hear a fetal heartbeat prior to their procedure, demanded the burial or cremation of abortion fetuses by those in possession of them, and established the "crimminalization" of collecting or transferring fetal tissue. The law was eventually overturned by a federal judge, who said it would likely be found unconstitutional.
Overall, had Pence decided he even wanted to pursue the Republican presidential nomination, it is still unlikely that he would have been nominated due to his staunch support for two very extreme, publically-admonished, rights-limiting bills directly prior to the primaries.
In the end it all worked out for him, so well played on his part.
If Trump had lost, his political career would have been in big trouble.
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The fact that a Flynn lied to him and Trumpo didn't loop him in after the Justice Dtpt disclosure was all just for protection of the most powerful man in the world. Well besides the Rothchilds of course
...to fall on his sword, for cover.
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