MIKE PENCE ‘IMAGINES HE’S ONE DAY CLOSER' TO BECOMING PRESIDENT EVERY DAY, THANKS TO TRUMP AND GOD: BIOGRAPHER
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"Pence thinks God wants him to be president"
Vice President Mike Pence believes with every passing day that he is closer to becoming president, courtesy of President Donald Trump’s mounting scandals—and God—a Trump biographer has claimed in his new book.
“Absolutely everything Mike Pence does is oriented toward him becoming president,” biographer Michael D’Antonio said on CNN while promoting The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence, the book he co-authored with Peter Eisner released Tuesday.
“His decision to accept Donald Trump’s offer to be his running mate, but it even goes back much further,” said D’Antonio, who is also a CNN contributor.
By the time he finished high school, Pence had decided he was going to be president of the United States and became a Congress member and governor of Indiana with that end goal, D’Antonio claimed.
“He actually heard from his being, God’s direction, and he thought God was calling him to, now, be vice president and function as a president-in-waiting,” said D’Antonio, adding: “So we see Donald Trump in this huge crisis, this rolling chaos, and I think, with every day, Mike Pence imagines he’s one day closer to the Oval Office.”
The book went to press before the controversies surrounding Trump reached new heights. Last week, Trump’s onetime campaign manager Paul Manafort was convicted of eight felonies concerning bank and tax fraud and failing to report foreign bank and financial accounts. At about the same time, Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts and directly implicated the president in campaign finance violations.
D’Antonio opined that Pence’s decisions to become a congressman and governor were not to push legislation, but to get executive experience and that “he’s been very effective at that.”
The book points out that Pence has repeatedly said he is Christian first, conservative second and Republican third, and that he would run the nation in a way pleasing to God and corporate sponsors.
CNN’s New Day co-host John Berman asked D’Antonio whether he thinks Pence is maneuvering to get to the Oval Office at the expense of the president.
“Oh, I think yes. I think he’s positioning himself to be the normal guy—the guy you can trust,” D’Antonio responded. “He’s out across the country continuously promoting the president’s agenda, but really promoting the development of his own network.”
Pence also established his own PAC at an earlier stage than any other vice president in history
“His infrastructure for running for office is complete,” the biographer said. “So should Trump stumble, should he decide not to run again, Pence 2020 would be an automatic thing.”
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Pence would be a lame duck from day one of his presidency, due to his incessant toadying towards Trump for the past two years. I hope he gets his wish.
Quite the opposite.
Uh, no. He is tied at the hip with trump. If trump is impeached the stank will drip all over Pence, quite justifiably.
I'm sure you think so. I realize that you believe "association with Donald Trump" should be a felony with a minimum 10 year prison sentence.
But Pence is far more palatable than Trump to the overwhelming majority of Americans. He's reliable, predictable, stable, doesn't tweet, doesn't have porn-star mistresses or multiple ex-wives. The Republican establishment would love him, and reasonable, rational stuff would start getting done.
So is a lot of tasteless, bland, treacly and nutritionally empty "food" in the American diet. For Pence to avoid what befell Ford when Nixon dodged the law, he'd have to make sure he not only not pardon Scumbag for anything--I mean anything--while still not alienating the Scumbag knuckledraggers. That would be a next-to-impossible task for even the most charismatic and rhetorically skilled politician rather that one like Pence whose only talent seems to be to paste on very practiced smile that would do any sexual deviant proud and spout some meaningless platitudes.
You presume....bizarrely....that Trump supporters would somehow defect to the Democratic Party. They would vote for him solely on the fact that he's not a raving socialist whackjob who acts like an angry teenager.
Primaries are won on the fringe. Elections are won in the middle.
The sad thing for our country at large and Democrats specifically is that the Dems do not seem to grasp this idea. They are operating under some sort of fantasy that they lost the WH because they weren't far enough out in whackadoodle leftist land.
The party that captures the centrists captures the election. Pence is MUCH more appealing to centrists than Trump.
Trump will never be impeached. If proceedings ever started against him he will simply claim bone spurs and resign while claiming that it is because of the "deep state".
Trump doesn't have the intelligence, temperament, or courage to make it through impeachment proceedings. In fact,I would not be surprised to see him resign if Mueller subpoenas him. Trump is terrified (and rightly so) about making any statements under oath.
I don't believe that the Democratic party accepts racists, misogynists, nationalists, or rapists.
Or pedophiles.
LOL!!
You may have a future in comedy with lines like that!!
LOL!
THANK YOU!!!
I knew I was forgetting someone.
IF there was a god or jesus - neither Rump nor Pence would be anywhere near the White House.
And there it is. I wondered how long before some people would start writing bullshit articles trashing the Vice President (just in case he becomes Presdient), and you didn't disappoint.
Certainly called that one........
LOL
Do YOU think God wants Mike Pence to be president?
If Trump leaves office, Mike Pence will acscend to the title of the worst human in history, the man too racist for the KKK, destroyer of America etc.etc.. the titles formally held by Trump, Bush, McCain, Romney, Reagan, all the way back to Goldwater at least.
The names changes, the hysteria remains the same.
Pence is definitely a theocrat, a homophobe, a transphobe, an Islamophobe, a xenophobe and a misogynist, but it's not clear if he's really a racist despite being an unusually pale shade of white.
Pence comes in his own trash bag. Don't blame us for what he already is.
Last night Trump was pandering to Christian extremists and trying to stoke fears of violence when the GOP loses in November. I'm not sure who he thinks will become violent just because bigots and theocrats lose. I dunno.....maybe it helps Pence's dream of becoming Chief Mullah.
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It also reveals Trump's intent to violate the Establishment clause and his belief that he's already done so in his effort to pander to these Christian extremists.
The difference between Scumbag and Pence is that Scumbag just strings the extreme right bible-thumpers along while Pence is actually one of them. Whatever Scumbag promises them on their aims to turns this country into the Christian version of Saudi Arabia, Pence will increase that ten-fold and will really mean it.
It's clear that Pence has already been strategizing if not running the more bigoted aspects of Trump's domestic agenda.
PENCE will be IMPEACHED along with Trump, this for lying about the firing of Michael Flynn and the conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian election interference.
Pence?
Putin smiles.
As does Lucifer.