IT'S "SAVEA$$" TIME - MIKE PENCE

President Trump says "Why aren't people looking into Vice President Pence's telephone calls?"  How does that make you feel VP Pence having the Prez ready to throw you under the bus?*

Vice President Mike Pence (60) was a member of the House of Representatives from 2001-2013 and the 50th governor of Indiana 2013-2017.  Among other things, Mike Pence really was an "altar boy."** Early in his career, Pence became known as an excellent speaker.

Pence is among those who call "global warming" a myth.

Before being governor: And, while Pence ran the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, it published an essay arguing that unmarried women should be denied access to birth control. ***

While governor, Pence signed bills intended to restrict abortions, including one that prohibited abortions if the reason for the procedure was the fetus's race, gender, or disability.*
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Eventually, the [Indiana] legislature went along with what Pence often describes as “the largest income-tax cut in the state’s history,” even though Indiana already had one of the lowest income taxes in the country, 

As a congressman: In 2011, he made the evening news by threatening to shut down the federal government unless it defunded Planned Parenthood. ***
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He sponsored an unsuccessful amendment to the Affordable Care Act that would have made it legal for government-funded hospitals to turn away a dying woman who needed an abortion. 

Pence is on shaky ground as he supported Gen. Flynn as National Security advisor and got messed up in the Comey firing where he said the firing had nothing to do with the Russians only to have Trump contradict him awhile later.

Pence has also gotten messed up in the Ukraine business.
The vice president would very much like to stress that he did not intend to speak in code and knew nothing about Trump’s attempt to extort Ukraine whatsoever. Officials close to Pence told the Post that “he was unaware of Trump’s efforts to press Zelensky for damaging information about Biden and his son,” and that even though such efforts were laid out plain as day in the briefing book he undoubtedly received, “he traveled to Warsaw for a meeting with Zelensky on September 1 probably without having read—or at least fully registered—the transcript of Trump’s July 25 call with the leader of Ukraine.” (Amusingly, at least one Pence aide could not abide the notion that his boss wouldn’t have read or registered the significance of the call, and “disputed the notion that the vice president was poorly prepared for his meeting with Zelensky,” which kind of blows a hole in the whole “he had no idea what was happening!” defense.)***

One thing we do know is that Pence is at least as good a lier as Donald Trump and that says something.


* https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/25/trump-pence-ukraine-phone-calls-1512771
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pence
*** https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/23/the-danger-of-president-pence
**** https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/mike-pence-ukraine-scandal