President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday morning that Vice President Mike Pence will remain as his running mate on the top of the ticket during the 2020 presidential election amid rumors that he was considering asking former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley instead.
&#8220;Mike Pence is a great vice president, he&#8217;s our man 100 percent,&#8221; Trump replied to &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; co-host Ainsley Earhardt when directly asked who would be his vice presidential nominee in the upcoming election.
&#8220;Mike Pence — I know I&#8217;ve seen this rumor that keeps popping up, and Nikki would be great, but Mike Pence has done a phenomenal job as vice president,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;He&#8217;s our guy, he&#8217;s my friend, and look, we have a great team.&#8221;
After Haley resigned from her United Nations ambassadorship somewhat unexpectedly, speculation began swirling that she might be considering her own challenge to Trump in 2020 for the presidency. Haley, however, swiftly denied any potential for the a presidential run, but a second wave of rumors began to emerge that she was gunning to replace Pence.
&#8220;For all of you that are going to ask about 2020 — no, I am not running for 2020,&#8221; Haley said alongside Trump at the time of her resignation. &#8220;I can promise you what I will be doing is campaigning for this one. So, I look forward to supporting the president in the next election.&#8221;
Haley also made two public statements showing her support for Pence and further denying that she had any intention of replacing him.
&#8220;Enough of the false rumors,&#8221; Haley tweeted in August 2019. &#8220;Vice President Pence has been a dear friend of mine for years. He has been a loyal and trustworthy VP to the president. He has my complete support.&#8221;
However, the speculation began to arise once again after Haley appeared live on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today Show&#8221; earlier in November where she provided an unequivocal defense of the president.
&#8220;I will tell you, it is amazing how this vice president stuff still keeps coming up,&#8221; Haley said while promoting her recently released book, &#8220;With All Due Respect: Defending America With Grit And Grace.&#8221;
&#8220;The vice president and the president are a great ticket together,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;They&#8217;re solid. Solid enough that they are going to win together. There is no truth whatsoever that I would ever in any way look to get that position. I think Mike is great for that job and I think that he’s the right partner for the president.&#8221;
&#8220;Nikki will absolutely be involved. She is a friend of mine — she endorsed me with the most beautiful endorsement you&#8217;ve ever heard,&#8221; Trump continued on Friday. &#8220;She did a great job at the U.N. She is now in the private sector, I assume she is doing very well. But Nikki will be back in some form because she is great. She is my friend.&#8221;
Haley is largely seen as a leading conservative woman in the Republican Party and although she has at times been critical of Trump, she has also become a close ally of his over time.

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Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, who is Vice President Mike Pence&#8217;s National Security Adviser, released a statement on Tuesday stating that he was on President Donald Trump&#8217;s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and that he heard nothing wrong or improper on the call.
Kellogg&#8217;s statement came in response to Jennifer Williams, special adviser on Europe and Russia for Vice President Mike Pence, testifying before the House Intelligence Committee hearing.
Kellogg wrote, &#8220;I was on the much-reported July 25 call between President Donald Trump and President Zelensky. As an exceedingly proud member of President Trump’s Administration and as a 34-year highly experienced combat veteran who retired with the rank of Lieutenant General in the Army, I heard nothing wrong or improper on the call. I had and have no concerns.&#8221;
President Donald Trump took a shot at Williams on Tuesday, writing on Twitter: &#8220;Tell Jennifer Williams, whoever that is, to read BOTH transcripts of the presidential calls, &amp; see the just released ststement from Ukraine. Then she should meet with the other Never Trumpers, who I don’t know &amp; mostly never even heard of, &amp; work out a better presidential attack!&#8221;
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Tell Jennifer Williams, whoever that is, to read BOTH transcripts of the presidential calls, &amp; see the just released ststement from Ukraine. Then she should meet with the other Never Trumpers, who I don’t know &amp; mostly never even heard of, &amp; work out a better presidential attack!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1196155347117002752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/19/us/politics/jennifer-williams.html">reported</a> on Williams&#8217; closed-door testimony last month, writing that she &#8220;told lawmakers that she was taken aback by Mr. Trump’s insistence during the call that Mr. Zelensky open investigations into former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., a candidate for president in 2020, and his son Hunter Biden, who served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company while his father was in office. She said that the conversation with Mr. Zelensky was &#8216;more political in nature&#8217; than other calls with foreign leaders that she had listened to and that she felt it was &#8216;unusual and inappropriate.'&#8221;
Full statement from Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg about the testimony of Jennifer Williams:
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Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg 
National Security Advisor 
Office of Vice President Mike Pence
Beginning January 20, 2017, I was privileged to serve as Chief of Staff at the National Security Council. Since April 23, 2018, I have served as National Security Advisor to the Vice President of the United States. In my role in the Office of the Vice President, Jennifer Williams, a detailee from the U.S. Department of State, has reported to me since April 1, 2019.
I was on the much-reported July 25 call between President Donald Trump and President Zelensky. As an exceedingly proud member of President Trump’s Administration and as a 34-year highly experienced combat veteran who retired with the rank of Lieutenant General in the Army, I heard nothing wrong or improper on the call. I had and have no concerns. Ms. Williams was also on the call, and as she testified, she never reported any personal or professional concerns to me, her direct supervisor, regarding the call. In fact, she never reported any personal or professional concerns to any other member of the Vice President’s staff, including our Chief of Staff and the Vice President.
Today, in her testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Ms. Williams also accurately testified regarding the Vice President’s preparation for and conduct during his September 1 meeting in Poland with President Zelensky. In her testimony, she affirmed that the Vice President focused on President Zelensky’s anti-corruption efforts and the lack of European support and never mentioned former Vice President Joe Biden, Crowdstrike, Burisma, or investigations in any communication with Ukrainians.
In my over 40-years in uniform and additional federal service, I am honored to serve this President and this Vice President as we advance the interests of the American people.

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Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley shot down persistent rumors on Tuesday that she is vying to replace Vice President Mike Pence on the top of the ticket in the 2020 presidential election.
&#8220;I will tell you, it is amazing how this vice president stuff still keeps coming up,&#8221; Haley told Fox News host Dana Perino when confronted with the allegations.
&#8220;The vice president and the president are a great ticket together,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;They&#8217;re solid. Solid enough that they are going to win together. There is no truth whatsoever that I would ever in any way look to get that position. I think Mike is great for that job and I think that he&#8217;s the right partner for the president.&#8221;
The former governor of South Carolina is largely seen as a leading conservative woman in the Republican Party. After Haley resigned from her United Nations ambassadorship somewhat unexpectedly, speculation began swirling that she might be considering her own challenge to President Donald Trump in 2020 for the presidency. Haley, however, swiftly denied any potential for the a presidential run.
&#8220;For all of you that are going to ask about 2020 — no, I am not running for 2020,” Haley said alongside Trump at the time of her resignation. &#8220;I can promise you what I will be doing is campaigning for this one. So, I look forward to supporting the president in the next election.&#8221;
Only months after leaving the Trump administration at the end of 2018, Haley launched Stand For America, an advocacy group that promotes &#8220;public policies that strengthen America&#8217;s economy, culture, and national security.&#8221; The move prompted speculation further that she might be positioning herself to replace Pence as Trump&#8217;s running mate on the next ticket.
&#8220;Enough of the false rumors,&#8221; Haley tweeted in August 2019. &#8220;Vice President Pence has been a dear friend of mine for years. He has been a loyal and trustworthy VP to the president. He has my complete support.&#8221;
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Enough of the false rumors. Vice President Pence has been a dear friend of mine for years. He has been a loyal and trustworthy VP to the President. He has my complete support. ❤️🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/waPyQjC8Eb">pic.twitter.com/waPyQjC8Eb</a>
&mdash; Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1164267307138453504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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While promoting her recently released book, &#8220;With All Due Respect: Defending America With Grit And Grace,&#8221; Haley appeared live on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today Show&#8221; on Tuesday where she provided an unequivocal defense of the president.
&#8220;I never had any concern on whether he could handle the job, ever &#8230; In every instance that I dealt with him he was truthful, he listened, and he was great to work with,&#8221; Haley replied when questioned about his capacity for the presidency. She further noted that she believes he is a &#8220;truthful&#8221; leader.
Although Haley has at times been critical of Trump, she has also become a close ally of his over time. The relationship between the duo has evolved since she initially endorsed Trump&#8217;s primary challenger Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) during the 2016 election cycle, and later announced she was would be voting for Trump during the general election despite saying she was still &#8220;not a fan.&#8221;
The response drew the ire of Trump, who stated at the time that &#8220;the people of South Carolina are embarrassed by Nikki Haley!&#8221;
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Nikki Haley Doubles Down On Her Denial That She Will Be Trump’s Running Mate

The Trump administration official who wrote an anonymous op-ed in The New York Times last year attacking President Donald Trump says in a new book, which they also wrote anonymously, that Vice President Mike Pence would have supported using the 25th Amendment to remove the president.
&#8220;The much-anticipated book &#8216;A Warning,&#8217; reportedly written by an unnamed senior White House official, claims that high-level White House aides were certain that Vice President Mike Pence would support the use of the 25th Amendment to have President Donald Trump removed from office because of mental incapacity,&#8221; HuffPost journalist Yashar Ali exclusively <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anonymous-book-warning-mike-pence_n_5dc376a1e4b00551388271cd?fwj">reported</a> on Wednesday night after obtaining passages from the upcoming book.
The source that provided the excerpts did so on the condition of anonymity and that HuffPost could not publish direct quotes from the book since excerpts from the book are scheduled to be released in a couple of weeks.
&#8220;According to Anonymous, there was no doubt in the minds of these senior officials that Pence would support invoking the 25th Amendment if the majority of the Cabinet signed off on it,&#8221; HuffPost added. &#8220;The discussions about invoking the 25th Amendment took place, according to the book, soon after FBI Director James Comey was fired by the president. Comey’s firing, which was done without any warning or consultation with Congress, led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, who was charged with investigating Russian interference in the 2016 campaign and possible obstruction of the probe from the Trump administration.&#8221;
Katie Waldman, the press secretary for Pence, responded to the news report by <a href="https://twitter.com/VPPressSec/status/1192281607169818624">tweeting</a>: &#8220;FAKE NEWS.&#8221;
A top Trump ally in the White House responded to the report by telling The Daily Wire: “Whoever anonymous is, assuming this is actually in the book, has exposed themselves as a complete fraud. Anyone who knows the vice president knows that he would never tolerate such talk and any such person would immediately be shown the door.”
Marc Lotter, Trump 2020 Director of Strategic Communications, responded to the story by <a href="https://twitter.com/marc_lotter/status/1192279196585877505">writing</a> on Twitter, &#8220;This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. I served as @VPPressSec at the time. Anyone who gives this nonsense any credibility does not know @VP @mike_pence .&#8221;
After the story broke, numerous reporters from mainstream news publications that are often critical of the president immediately pushed back on the claims being made by the anonymous Trump administration official in the book.
Josh Marshall, Editor and Publisher of TPM, <a href="https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1192280125552943104">tweeted</a>: &#8220;I confess this sounds more like resistance fanfic than anything real. Did they have the Marshal of the Supreme a court on board?&#8221;
Axios reporter Jonathan Swan wrote: &#8220;Anybody who covers Pence knows this is an absurd claim.&#8221;
Washington Post White House reporter Josh Dawsey agreed with Swan, writing: &#8220;What Mr Swan said.&#8221;
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What Mr Swan said. <a href="https://t.co/Pusp82bCJR">https://t.co/Pusp82bCJR</a>
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) <a href="https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1192273249251549184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
Far-left MSNBC analyst Matthew Miller <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/1192279228802387969">tweeted</a>: &#8220;Not sure I believe this, but I bet Trump will!&#8221;
Josh Jordan <a href="https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1192273170239229953">tweeted</a>: &#8220;I have a very hard time believing this, but this book is going to provide some fireworks in what has been a calm, boring news cycle.&#8221;
Vice News reporter Elizabeth Landers <a href="https://twitter.com/ElizLanders/status/1192279354816049154">tweeted</a>: &#8220;A source close to the Vice President: &#8216;There is zero chance this is accurate.'&#8221;
Conservative commentator Erick Erickson tweeted: &#8220;This is delusional nonsense. If this anonymous person really believed this, he has zero credibility.&#8221;
Daily Mail Editor David Martosko <a href="https://twitter.com/dmartosko/status/1192283147746054145">tweeted</a>: &#8220;The idea that Mike Pence would stand up and support a 25th Amendment strategy is beyond bizarre, bordering on lunatic. Not exactly encouraging for the anonymous author&#8217;s credibility.&#8221;
This is a developing news story, refresh the page for updates.
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BREAKING: Anonymous Author Of NYT Op-Ed Makes Wild Claim About Pence. Reporters Instantly Push Back On Claims.

When he wasn&#8217;t dismantling the Democrats&#8217; latest impeachment &#8220;<a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2019/10/23/how-many-bombshells-can-there-be/">bombshells</a>&#8221; on Wednesday, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh spent some time addressing a big story involving President Trump the impeachment-obsessed media isn&#8217;t as interested in covering: his significant foreign policy achievement in Syria.
On Wednesday, President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gathered in the Diplomatic Reception Room to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-announces-permanent-ceasefire-in-syria-between-turkey-and-kurds">announce</a> the permanent ceasefire between Turkey and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria.
&#8220;Over the last five days you have seen that a ceasefire that we established along Syria’s border has held, and it’s held very well, beyond most expectations,&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;Early this morning the government of Turkey informed my administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in Syria and making the ceasefire permanent, and it will indeed be permanent.&#8221;
&#8220;This was an outcome created by us, the United States, and nobody else. No other nation. Very simple,&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;Turkey, Syria, and all forms of the Kurds have been fighting for centuries. We have done them a great service, and we’ve done a great job for all of them. And now we’re getting out. We were supposed to be there for 30 days. That was almost ten years ago.&#8221;
&#8220;Let someone else fight over this long-bloodstained sand,&#8221; Trump declared. &#8220;We were supposed to be there for 30 days. That was almost 10 years ago. So we’re there for 30 days, and now we’re leaving. It’s supposed to be a very quick hit, and let’s get out, and it was a quick hit except they stayed for almost 10 years.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s remarks, said Limbaugh, &#8220;feature many of the reasons he was elected president.&#8221;
&#8220;He gave a mini-barn-burner here,&#8221; said the host. &#8220;He ripped into Obama. He ripped into previous presidents for a bunch of basic dishonesty in committing American troops around the world. He pointed out that the Middle East has become more unstable as more troops have been deployed. The wars have never ended.&#8221;
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&#8220;And he made a great point, that as we have continued to send troops to these areas of the Middle East and as the chaos in these areas has ratcheted up, guess what else has happened at the same time?&#8221; Rush continued. &#8220;We have opened our borders to more refugees and more immigrants. And Trump says these days are over. We’re not gonna go sponsor chaos and then say out of compassion, &#8216;Well, come here,&#8217; and open our borders. We’re not falling for this anymore.&#8221;
It was &#8220;exactly&#8221; for this kind of action and these kinds of declarations that Trump was elected in 2016, said Limbaugh.
&#8220;He made it very clear what the game has been,&#8221; Limbaugh explained. &#8220;The State Department, the permanent Washington establishment commits American troops to little skirmishes here and skirmishes there, and nobody ever wins because they never end. We recycle troops. We sell more ammunition and more weapons. The areas become war-torn and unlivable and the people that live there flee, and they go to Europe and some want to come here.&#8221;
&#8220;At the same time, we open our borders, we open our borders to more illegal immigrants, and we open our borders to more refugees, and he said these days are over, this is not gonna happen any longer in announcing this permanent ceasefire,&#8221; Limbaugh added.
Among the sections of Trump&#8217;s speech Limbaugh highlighted was the president calling out those criticizing his handling of Syria:
<blockquote>TRUMP: There were some political pundits who responded to Turkey’s offensive in Syria by calling for yet another American military intervention. They are the ones that got us into the Middle East mess but never had the vision or courage to get us out. They just talk. How many Americans must die in the Middle East in the midst of these ancient sectarian and tribal conflicts?
After all of the precious blood and treasure America has poured into the deserts of the Middle East, I am committed to pursuing a different course. The same people pushing for these wars are often the ones demanding America open its doors to unlimited migration from war-torn regions, importing the terrorism and the threat of terrorism right to our own shores. But not anymore.</blockquote>
&#8220;That, to me, was the big point of the entire speech. This is it,&#8221; said Rush. He continued:
<blockquote>That encapsulates why he was elected, why he ran. The same people pushing for these wars, that create all of this chaos, that uproot so many people in their home countries, the same people making these things happen, the same people pushing for this are the same people demanding that America open its doors and borders to unlimited migration from these very war-torn regions, importing the terrorism and the threat of terrorism right to our own shores. Folks, that hits the nail on the head so strongly, I need to repeat it 10 or 12 times.</blockquote>
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With the Democrats marching steadily toward impeaching President Trump over the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-call-from-hell-trump-taunts-media-over-released-transcript-room-explodes">call from hell</a>,&#8221; some amped-up Trump critics are already moving on to the next target: the leftist-loathed Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence.
What has the folks over at HuffPost spinning up spirited headlines about &#8220;President Pelosi&#8221; is Trump&#8217;s comments about Ukraine. He made the comment shortly after his administration released the transcript, in which he &#8220;dragged Vice President Mike Pence’s name into his growing Ukraine scandal,&#8221; as the left-leaning outlet put it.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration released a summary memo containing a transcript from his much-analyzed July 25 call with Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky. The administration followed that on Thursday by releasing the complaint filed by the thus-far unnamed whistleblower (who, according to the New York Times, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-report-whistleblower-worked-for-the-c-i-a">worked for the CIA</a>) alleging that Trump attempted to &#8220;to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election&#8221; by &#8220;pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President’s main domestic political rivals.&#8221;
In a press conference in which he addressed the Ukraine accusations on Wednesday, Trump pointed out that Pence also had &#8220;a couple of conversations&#8221; with Ukraine.
&#8220;I think you should ask for Vice President Pence&#8217;s conversation, because he had a couple of conversations also,&#8221; Trump said, as reported by <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/25/trump-pence-ukraine-phone-calls-1512771">Politico</a>. &#8220;I could save you a lot of time,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They were all perfect. Nothing was mentioned of any import other than congratulations.&#8221;
Trump noted that the July 25 call was actually the second time he spoke with Zelensky, and that he&#8217;d gladly hand over a transcripts of Pence&#8217;s call and his first call with the Ukrainian leader if prompted.
&#8220;The word is they’re going to ask for the first phone conversation,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;You can have it anytime you need it. And also Mike Pence&#8217;s conversations, which were, I think, one or two of them. They were perfect. They were all perfect.&#8221;
The comments, HuffPost notes, sparked a new resistance hashtag campaign — <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PresidentPelosi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1177055159559409664&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Ftrump-pence-president-pelosi_n_5d8c49c6e4b0e9e760472a5b">#PresidentPelosi</a> — with anti-Trumpers hoping aloud that Pence will now join Trump in impeachment purgatory.
&#8220;Critics of the administration are now envisioning a scenario in which both Trump and Pence end up impeached,&#8221; <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-pence-president-pelosi_n_5d8c49c6e4b0e9e760472a5b">HuffPost</a> reports, before lightly raining on the Impeach Pence parade. &#8220;While it would take an unlikely sequence of events for that to happen, the reaction caused #PresidentPelosi to trend Wednesday night and Thursday morning, given that the speaker of the House would be next in the line of succession.&#8221;
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In the transcript released by the Trump administration Wednesday, Trump did ask Zelensky to “look into” Biden and his son but, as team Trump maintains, never offered any direct quid pro quo for investigating his political rival.
&#8220;There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution, and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great,&#8221; Trump told Zelesky on the call that sparked the Democrats&#8217; latest impeachment push. &#8220;Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it … It sounds horrible to me.&#8221;
Prior to bringing up Biden, Trump mentioned cybersecurity company Crowdstrike, which was contracted by the Democratic National Committee to look into the potential hacking of its emails. The company concluded that two Russia-based hacking groups were the culprits, though the DNC would not allow further confirmation of its findings.
“I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it,&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike … I guess you have one of your wealthy people … The server, they say Ukraine has it.&#8221; Trump then specified that his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and Attorney General William Barr would be in contact with the Ukraine to help &#8220;get to the bottom of it.&#8221;
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-the-whistleblower-complaint-that-sparked-the-trump-impeachment-inquiry">Here’s The Whistleblower Complaint That Sparked The Trump Impeachment Inquiry</a>
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The Secret Service is investigating a North Carolina high school teacher after she allegedly told a classroom of students that Vice President Mike Pence &#8220;should be shot in the head,&#8221; according to numerous reports.
&#8220;The woman allegedly told her class at Cuthbertson High School in Union County that Pence should be &#8216;shot in the head,&#8217; WJZY reported over the weekend,&#8221; The <a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article235168802.html">Charlotte Observer</a> wrote.
The unidentified teacher allegedly made the comment the same week Pence stopped in Union County to campaign for congressional candidate Rep. Dan Bishop, <a href="https://www.wbtv.com/2019/09/16/nc-teacher-administrative-leave-after-alleged-inappropriate-comments-about-vp-pence/">Fox 46</a> reported.
Union County Public Schools officials said they are taking the allegations &#8220;very seriously&#8221; and have put the teacher on administrative leave, according to a statement provided to <a href="https://www.wbtv.com/2019/09/16/nc-teacher-administrative-leave-after-alleged-inappropriate-comments-about-vp-pence/">WBTV</a> and other news outlets. The Observer said the Secret Service is investigating.
&#8220;THIS JUST IN: @UCPS_MonroeNC says teacher was immediately placed on administrative leave last week after alleged inappropriate comments about VP Mike Pence. The Secret Service is aware of the reported comments made by the teacher. @WBTV_News,&#8221; reporter Chandler Morgan wrote on Twitter.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">THIS JUST IN: <a href="https://twitter.com/UCPS_MonroeNC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UCPS_MonroeNC</a> says teacher was immediately placed on administrative leave last week after alleged inappropriate comments about VP Mike Pence. The Secret Service is aware of the reported comments made by the teacher. <a href="https://twitter.com/WBTV_News?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WBTV_News</a> <a href="https://t.co/b2JCknt79G">pic.twitter.com/b2JCknt79G</a>
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The school district said in a statement: &#8220;Union County Public Schools is aware of the allegation of inappropriate comments made by a Cuthbertson High School teacher. District administrators are taking this allegation seriously and an investigation is being conducted. This is a personnel matter and information related to this alleged incident is protected by state law.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/politics/teacher-accused-of-threatening-vice-president-pence/275-f21fa9d1-fa8b-4406-b587-88660de01e70">NBC Charlotte</a> talked to former FBI assistant director Chris Swecker about what the investigation could involve. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure they will eventually get around to going out and interviewing the teacher,&#8221; Swecker told the station.
<blockquote>Swecker said federal authorities will likely be trying to answer several questions in determining whether criminal charges will be filed.
“Whether it was actually an imminent threat, does she have weapons?” Swecker said. “Have other threats been made? Does she have a criminal record?”
Swecker said it comes at a time when there are deep political divisions in the country, which could be a contributing factor.
“Politicians and leaders of every persuasion have engaged in pretty heated, very unprofessional dialogue,” Swecker said. “I think some people out in the general public tend to take a cue and take it a step further.”</blockquote>
The comments prompted criticism in the community.
&#8220;You should not be bringing in those type of viewpoints to your job,&#8221; Union County GOP Chair Allison Powers told WBTV.
Powers isn&#8217;t calling for the teacher to be fired, but says the comment was inappropriate. &#8220;To just wish that kind of violence on anybody is just way out of bounds,” Powers said.
Firas Obeid, a parent to two students at the school, said he doesn&#8217;t necessarily support the vice president, but also said the comment was wrong. &#8220;This is the vice president of the United States. He&#8217;s an elected official,” Obeid told the station. &#8220;Affiliation to a specific party does not entitle us to make a statement like that to anyone.”
Union County, along with neigboring Mecklenburg County, are in the state&#8217;s 9th Congressional District where Bishop, a Republican, narrowly won a special election against Democrat Dan McCready this month. Trump and Pence both visited the district, along with Donald Trump Jr. The visits pushed Bishop over the top, political analysts said.

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A representative for Vice President Mike Pence has responded to inquiries made by House Democrats into the VP’s trip to Ireland earlier this month.
Mark T. Short, Pence’s chief of staff, sent a letter to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) regarding the latter’s investigation into the vice president’s recent trip. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51930/house-republicans-accuse-democrats-fishing-ashe-schow">previously reported</a> that Cummings demanded documents from the White House, the Vice President’s Office, the Secret Service, and the Trump Organization, none of which handled Pence’s travel and accommodations for Ireland.
“Please be advised that the Department of State approved all lodging accommodations for the Vice President and [Office of the Vice President] OVP staff related to the September 2019 trip to Poland, Ireland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom,” Short wrote in the letter, obtained by The Daily Wire. “OVP did not book or reserve any of the hotel accommodations in connection with this trip, and no funds appropriated to OVP were expended during the trip.”
Short continued by explaining that Pence’s stay at President Donald Trump’s hotel in Iceland occurred because that hotel offered the best rates on short notice.
“The Department of State conveyed to OVP in August (prior to the trip) that the general room rates offered by Trump International Doonbeg were competitive and even less expensive than those offered by the Radisson in Limerick, Ireland,” Short wrote. “The Radisson ultimately served as the hotel for the traveling press.”
Pence was invited to visit Ireland in March. Pence accepted, and the trip was planned for September 6, 2019, with one overnight stay in Doonbeg. Pence was scheduled to meet with Ireland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade just outside Doonbeg. On August 29, according to Short’s letter, Pence was asked to attend an event in Warsaw, Poland on September 1 “to commemorate Polish determination in fighting Nazi Germany and subsequent Soviet occupation.”
Trump could not attend the Poland event because he needed to oversee the federal response to Hurricane Dorian, Short explained.
“Instead of flying back and forth to Europe twice in the same week, the Office of the Vice President asked if the Ireland meetings could be moved to September 2, 2019 and September 3, 2019,” Short wrote. “The government of Ireland accommodated the date change request, but needed to rearrange the order of the original schedule.”
After consulting with the Secret Service, the original hotel plan could not be changed on short notice, so they needed to find different accommodations.
Short criticized Cummings for leaving out information regarding the Ireland trip, specifically, Cummings’ claim that no official meetings took place outside of Dublin, Ireland.
“On the contrary, the Vice President participated in a formal bilateral meeting with the Honorable Simon Coveney, Ireland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in Shannon, Ireland, which is in western Ireland,” Short wrote.
Cummings had sought information related to Pence’s travel because, as NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/pence-s-doonbeg-detour-cost-nearly-600k-ground-transportation-fees-n1052401">reported</a>, the stay at Trump’s hotel was evidence “the president is using his position to enrich himself.”
House Oversight ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) had previously responded to Cummings investigation by accusing the Maryland Democrat of a “partisan attack.”
“Although you coordinated your attack with Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, you failed to consult with any Republican Members before demanding voluminous information from four separate entities &#8211; none of which bore responsibility for the lodging and accommodations in Ireland,” Jordan wrote. “We can only assume that these letters were the result of a rushed process to capitalize on news reporting about the Ireland travel, rather than responsible and deliberative oversight.”

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Amid calls for an investigation into an abortion doctor whose clinic he defended last month, Democratic presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has finally publicly responded — and made sure to work in a defense of abortion in the process.
In a gruesome development reminiscent of the case of serial killer abortionist Kermit Gosnell, authorities found over 2,246 medically preserved fetal remains at the home of recently deceased abortion doctor Ulrich &#8220;George&#8221; Klopfer, whose clinic, the Whole Woman’s Health of South Bend, was forced to close down in 2016 over numerous code violations of reporting and record-keeping but then allowed to reopen this year without a license. Buttigieg notably defended the unlicensed abortion clinic in August by framing its closure as part of an &#8220;extreme assault on Roe v. Wade.&#8221;
&#8220;The mayor is deeply concerned by what he views as a new and extreme assault on Roe v. Wade in legislatures across the country,&#8221; Buttigieg&#8217;s national press secretary Chris Meagher <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-south-bend-abortion-clinic-20190806-2glq5hlgyfejvbvhbk2dknhbme-story.html">said</a> in August. &#8220;He believes that the truly radical idea in this debate and around abortion care is one of banning abortion outright. The South Bend clinic would be the only one for a radius of several counties. It is a restriction on a woman’s right if she is low-income, or doesn’t have a vehicle, and she has to visit multiple times, but the clinic is dozens of miles away.&#8221;
After being conspicuously silent on the findings of the abortionist this weekend — even after Indiana&#8217;s governor and the White House called for an investigation — Buttigieg finally addressed the controversy on Wednesday.
&#8220;Like everyone, I find the news out of Illinois, extremely disturbing,&#8221; Buttigieg told reporters (video below). &#8220;I think it&#8217;s important that that be fully investigated. I also hope that it doesn&#8217;t get caught up in politics at a time when women need access to health care. There&#8217;s no question that what happened here is disturbing, it&#8217;s unacceptable and it needs to be looked at.&#8221;
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As explained by <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/09/18/mayor-pete-chimes-in-on-fetal-remains-found-at-late-abortion-doctors-home-n2553344">Townhall</a>, Klopfer had clinics in multiple cities in Indiana; his South Bend clinic was in operation for four years under Buttigieg, who was elected in 2012, but finally closed down in 2016 after multiple reporting and record-maintenance violations. After two years of appeals, the clinic was allowed to reopen on June 27, despite still being unlicensed, a move Buttigieg strongly supported.
The mainstream media has largely ignored the unsettling case of Klopfer. In an op-ed for <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/09/18/ulrich-klopfer-abortion-gosnell-buttigieg-fetal-remains-illinois-indiana-column/2355359001/">USA Today</a> published Wednesday, David Mastio notes that a study by the Media Research Center found that the story was largely blacked out by the networks. &#8220;At my request, the conservative Media Research Center looked into coverage of Klopfer and found little interest,&#8221; Mastio writes. &#8220;No coverage on the nightly broadcast news. Nothing on MSNBC. A story on <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2019/09/14/fetal-remains-found-home-indiana-doctor-orig-ch.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a">CNN</a> and a few on Fox News. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/dr-ulrich-klopfer-fetal-remains.html">Nationalnewspapers</a> [sic] each <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/14/fetal-remains-found-illinois-home-former-abortion-doctor/2325303001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a">handled</a> it with one or two <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/dr-ulrich-klopfer-fetal-remains.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a">stories</a>.&#8221;
As reported by <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/09/16/wh_calls_for_investigation_of_ind_abortionist_buttigieg_silent_.html">Real Clear Investigations</a>&#8216; Philip Wegmann Monday, a growing number of politicians are demanding an investigation into Klopfer and his clinics.
&#8220;We need to determine how Dr. Klopfer was able to get away with this for so long, and how we only know about it now that Dr. Klopfer is deceased,&#8221; Rep. Jim Banks told RCP over the weekend.
&#8220;I am deeply disturbed that more than 2,000 fetal remains were found at the Illinois home of a deceased former northern Indiana abortion doctor,&#8221; Republican Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said Monday, as first reported by RCP. &#8220;I support calls for a federal investigation.&#8221;
Vice President Mike Pence then weighed in on the case, tweeting Monday that what authorities found at Klopfer&#8217;s was &#8220;appalling &amp; should shock the conscience of every American.&#8221; He also noted that while he was governor of Indiana, &#8220;we took his medical license away &amp; passed a law requiring fetal remains be treated with dignity.&#8221;
&#8220;The White House echoed that sentiment, confirming to RealClearPolitics that the administration will call for a full federal investigation,&#8221; Wegmann reported Wednesday. &#8220;Deputy Communications Director Judd Deere said in a statement that the White House was &#8216;horrified&#8217; and compared the gruesome discovery &#8216;to the atrocities of Dr. Kermit Gosnell&#8217; – who was convicted in 2013 of murdering three infants that were born alive during attempted abortions.&#8221;
&#8220;Murdering thousands of innocent babies is one thing, but preserving and hoarding their bodies like trophies is a new level of sickness,&#8221; Deere continued, as reported by Wegmann. &#8220;The radical left now defends late-term abortions, including infanticide, while President Trump protects our most innocent and vulnerable, and defends the dignity of life. A full investigation is needed to determine whether crimes were committed and if anyone else was involved.&#8221;
As highlighted by Mastio, in his defense of his practices and his clinics, Klopfer &#8220;recounted how he performed an abortion on a <a href="https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/state-suspends-medical-license-of-former-south-bend-abortion-doctor/article_13cf1480-6b85-11e6-b0f7-6b2daa9decdd.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a">10-year-old girl who was raped by her uncle</a>, never reporting the crime to police and, as a result, helping her parents cover up the atrocity by a family member.&#8221; He was also &#8220;previously charged with failing to report performing <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/2019/09/16/fetal-remains-found-illinois-home-ex-indiana-abortion-doctor/2339342001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a">abortions on two 13-year-olds</a>.&#8221;

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White House Calls For Investigation Of South Bend Abortionist; Buttigieg Finally Responds

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Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have accused committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) of conducting a “partisan attack” on Vice President Mike Pence’s trip to Doonbeg, Ireland, by demanding documents and information from entities that had nothing to do with the travel and accommodations for the trip.
“Although you coordinated your attack with Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, you failed to consult with any Republican Members before demanding voluminous information from four separate entities &#8211; none of which bore responsibility for the lodging and accommodations in Ireland,” wrote committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). “We can only assume that these letters were the result of a rushed process to capitalize on news reporting about the Ireland travel, rather than responsible and deliberative oversight.”
That reporting, from left-leaning media outlets, suggested Pence’s stay at President Donald Trump’s golf course in Ireland was evidence “the president is using his position to enrich himself,” as NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/pence-s-doonbeg-detour-cost-nearly-600k-ground-transportation-fees-n1052401">reported</a>. Receipts from the State Department show the trip cost taxpayers $600,000.
“The receipts totaled more than $599,000 in conjunction with the vice president&#8217;s stay, which required him to travel back-and-forth between Doonbeg and Dublin, where his official meetings were set to take place,” the outlet reported. “During then-President Barack Obama&#8217;s three-day visit to Ireland in 2013, the State Department spent just <a href="https://www.thejournal.ie/obama-ladies-ireland-1407732-Apr2014/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">$114,000</a> on ground transit, paying the same limousine company. The government paid the same company <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/05/irish-funeral-firm-rents-out-four-limousines-to-trump-for-1m" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">nearly $1 million</a> for Trump&#8217;s ground transportation during a June visit to the property.”
Cummings, however, has asked for information from the White House, the Vice President’s Office, the Secret Service, and the Trump Organization, which don’t handle the lodging and travel for the vice president.
“As you surely know, the Vice President &#8216;s Office and the White House do not expend appropriated funds for official international travel. Instead, the State Department bears responsibility for the Vice President &#8216;s travel arrangements, including the travel to Doonbeg. You, however, chose not to seek information from the State Department,” Jordan wrote.
Cummings had previously demanded information into official stays at Trump-owned properties in an apparent effort to prove the president is corrupt. As Jordan wrote, Cummings’ previous attempt failed.
“Following the President&#8217;s stay at Trump Turnberry in Scotland in July 2018, you asked the independent State Department Office of Inspector General (OIG) to examine any possible financial impropriety related to the travel. In July 2019, the OIG reported back to you that the State Department had saved taxpayer money by staying at the Trump Turnberry property, explaining that the ‘rate offered by the Trump Tum berry [was] the lowest of all the hotels being utilized for this VIP visit,’” Jordan wrote. “You have not acknowledged these facts.”
Jordan then excoriated Cummings for having claimed previously that he would “be about the business of being fair” and would “seek the truth and nothing but the truth.” Cummings also promised he would “not be about the business of wasting taxpayer dollars.”
“Your continuous political attacks on the Trump Administration do not advance this goal,” Jordan concluded.

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Pence Warns Iran: ‘We’re Locked And Loaded’

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Vice President Mike Pence says he got more than he bargained for when he attended an event in Kentucky featuring Triple Crown-winning horse American Pharoah.
<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/horses/triple/2019/09/14/mike-pence-american-pharoah-horse/2325863001/">According to USA Today,</a> Pence says American Pharoah took liberties with him when he visited the horse at his permanent home in retirement, Coolmore&#8217;s Ashford Stud Farm in Versailles, Kentucky. The horse, apparently, bit the Veep so hard that Pence collapsed on the spot.
Pence visted Coolmore&#8217;s Ashford Stud Farm while stumping for now-Rep. Garland &#8220;Andy&#8221; Barr (R-KY) back in 2018, just ahead of the mid-term elections. The event reportedly featured several of the farm&#8217;s prominent residents, including American Pharoah, the first Triple Crown winner in nearly four decades. Pence says he was invited to hold Pharoah&#8217;s reins for a photo opportunity when, he says, the horse decided to attack.
At a GOP retreat Friday, Pence used the visit as an example of how Republicans are handling adversity on the campaign trail. During a policy panel, &#8220;Pence claimed he was bitten so hard on the arm by American Pharoah that he nearly collapsed. The point of the story was to offer a metaphor for Republicans&#8217; hopes of retaking the House next year.&#8221;
“In our line of work, you’re going to get bit sometimes, but you keep fighting forward,” Pence reportedly told the crowd.
Lest American Pharoah be subject to bad public relations, a farm manager quickly disputed the tale to McClatchy DC, telling the news organization that if the horse had bitten someone that badly, it would have been immediately reported to farm management, and there have been no behavioral complaints about American Pharoah during his time at the stud farm.
“If he gave someone a nasty bite, I’d know it,” Dermot Ryan told McClatchy, adding that American Pharoah isn&#8217;t known for aggressive behavior, so he&#8217;d be surprised if the horse lashed out at the Vice President. Ryan did, however, remember the Vice President&#8217;s visit, telling reporters that he found Pence &#8220;very pleasant,&#8221; and that the farm was &#8220;honored&#8221; by the official visit.
A spokesperson for Rep. Barr <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-pence-racehorse-american-pharaoh-bite_n_5d7ceea5e4b077dcbd5f0b5a?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAfu7Kek2j8u9iJGowIdddKyTnsZMniA4X4QeGHITl5YWjY3pjgYrdW_fEN4i18ILwNW6D2BUvBE2lNGCUU0b4YCTJQg9OC7eIygwm0WYXUp_ofiGt-1GdFLmJ8dlXBbW6MkPJYsCoatCwEnDqx7zGoXnObW4RYdlEMj2I2w9gWi">confirmed the bite to Huffington Post</a>, however.
“I can confirm for you that the bite occurred while VP Pence was in Kentucky campaigning for Rep. Barr,&#8221; he told HuffPo. &#8220;The Vice President did show the bruise to Rep. Barr on Air Force 2 on their way back to DC.”
This isn&#8217;t the first time a famous animal, trotted out for an official photo opportunity, has taken out their aggression on an esteemed federal legislator. Before he resigned from Congress in disgrace — and well before he was known as &#8220;Carlos Danger&#8221; — then-Rep. Anthony Weiner was sent to a hospital <a href="https://thehill.com/capital-living/in-the-know/103129-rep-anthony-weiner-recovering-well-from-goat-injury">after being stabbed in the hand by a mohair goat</a>.

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VP Mike Pence Claims Triple Crown Winner American Pharoah Bit Him During Event

Vice President Mike Pence revealed on Wednesday that he keeps a copy of a book that once belonged to a man killed on United Airlines Flight 93 as a reminder of the atrocities that were carried out during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
&#8220;Two years ago, on this occasion, I toured the memorial museum, and there, I took note of one of the possessions of a passenger that was recovered at the crash sight,&#8221; Pence told a crowd during the 9/11 anniversary memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
&#8220;Among what was left of what Todd Beamer brought on board was a book entitled &#8216;A Life of Integrity&#8217; by Howard Hendricks,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;As I looked at the display through the glass, I was struck by the book’s title and how perfectly it represented what the men and women of Flight 93 demonstrated that day 18 years ago.&#8221;
&#8220;Shortly thereafter, I purchased a copy of the same edition of that devotional book,&#8221; Pence continued. &#8220;And it has flown with me every single day since on Air Force Two as a quiet tribute not just to the man, but to all the passengers and crew of Flight 93 for all you’ve done for us.&#8221;
Speaking at the commemoration of the hijacked Flight 93, Pence credited the airline crew and passengers who fought back against the four hijacking al-Qaeda terrorists.
&#8220;For what your loved ones did for my little family and countless others in our nation’s capital that day, thank you,&#8221; the vice president said.
The Flight 93 National Memorial marks the site where the plane went down just after 10:00 A.M. on September 11th, 2001. After passengers were alerted that hijacked Flight 77 had struck the Pentagon and Flights 11 and 175 had struck the World Trade Center towers, the passengers of Flight 93 voted to storm the cockpit.
Because of the passengers&#8217; revolt, the plane ultimately plummeted in the empty field just 20 minutes&#8217; flying time from Washington, D.C. Many believed that the White House was the intended target of Flight 93.
&#8220;I think an act of heroism just took place on that plane,&#8221; then-Vice President Dick Cheney is reported to have said upon learning of the crash.
&#8220;When heroes fall, words fail, for &#8216;no greater love has a man than this that he should lay down his life for his friends.&#8217; This then is what the heroes of Flight 93 did,&#8221; Pence said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s important that we tell their story. I&#8217;m grateful that all of you are here today to hear it one more time.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s important that we tell their stories, because as has already been observed, a whole generations of Americans has come of age with no personal memory of 9/11, so the rest of us, my fellow Americans, must tell the story,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We must never forget and never fail to honor the memory of those who were lost here, in New York City, and in Washington D.C.&#8221;
&#8220;And this we will do,&#8221; Pence added. &#8220;We will tell their story. We will honor their memory always.&#8221;

Mike Pence Reveals The Keepsake He Takes With Him On Air Force Two To Always Remember 9/11

Over the weekend, left-leaning news site Politico reported on the latest Trump administration &#8220;scandal&#8221;: an Air Force crew making &#8220;an odd stop on a routine trip.&#8221;
&#8220;In early Spring of this year, an Air National Guard crew made a routine trip from the U.S. to Kuwait to deliver supplies,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/air-force-trump-scottish-retreat-1484337">Politico</a> reported Saturday. &#8220;What wasn&#8217;t routine was where the crew stopped along the way: President Donald Trump&#8217;s Turnberry resort, about 50 miles outside Glasgow, Scotland.&#8221;
Politico went on to provide an update on the Democrat-controlled House Oversight Committee&#8217;s investigation into the &#8220;unusual stay — both en route to the Middle East and on the way back — at the luxury waterside resort.&#8221; The &#8220;unusual&#8221; Air Force crew stays, about which the committee has &#8220;yet to receive any answers from the Pentagon,&#8221; aren&#8217;t the only military expenditure issues the committee is looking into, Politico revealed:
<blockquote>The inquiry is part of a broader, previously unreported probe into U.S. military expenditures at and around the Trump property in Scotland. According to a letterthe panel sent to the Pentagon in June, the military has spent $11 million on fuel at the Prestwick Airport — the closest airport to Trump Turnberry — since October 2017, fuel that would be cheaper if purchased at a U.S. military base. The letter also cites a Guardian report that the airport provided cut-rate rooms and free rounds of golf at Turnberry for U.S. military members.</blockquote>
The report set off a series of scandalous headlines, <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/why-did-air-force-crew-stop-at-trump-scottish-resort-68498501730">MSNBC</a> asking, &#8220;Why did Air Force crew stop at Trump Scottish resort?&#8221; and <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjvzw/your-tax-dollars-are-paying-for-the-air-force-to-hang-out-at-trump-golf-resorts">VICE</a> declaring, &#8220;Your Tax Dollars Are Paying for the Air Force to Hang Out at Trump Golf Resorts.&#8221;
The report also appears to have prompted a probe by Air Force officials, as <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/08/trump-resort-air-force-probe-1485447">Politico</a> reported in an update to the story: &#8220;The U.S. Air Force has ordered a world-wide review of how it chooses overnight accommodations on long flights following revelations that air crews had occasionally stayed at President Donald Trump&#8217;s Scotland resort while refueling at a small commercial airport nearby.&#8221;
The Air Force report followed a similar story involving Vice President Mike Pence, as <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kea35/trump-suggested-mike-pence-stay-at-his-golf-resort-thats-3-hours-from-dublin-and-youre-paying-for-it">VICE</a> reported earlier last week. &#8220;Since Vice President Mike Pence is on government business in Dublin, Ireland, you&#8217;d think he&#8217;d stay near the city,&#8221; Vice explained. &#8220;Instead, at President Trump&#8217;s &#8216;suggestion,&#8217; Pence is staying at Trump&#8217;s golf course 180 miles away in Doonbeg, Ireland, a village on the opposite coast of the country, and commute by plane — at taxpayer expense. Defending the decision to reporters on Tuesday, Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, clarified that the president didn&#8217;t &#8216;command&#8217; the stay. It was a suggestion, Short said.&#8221;
In a pair of tweets Monday morning, President Trump addressed the mounting &#8220;scandal,&#8221; denying any role in the decisions by government employees — both the Air Force crew and Pence — to stay overnight at his resorts. While he emphasized that the decisions had &#8220;NOTHING TO DO WITH ME,&#8221; he did praise the &#8220;good taste&#8221; of those who choose to visit his luxury hotels.
&#8220;I know nothing about an Air Force plane landing at an airport (which I do not own and have nothing to do with) near Turnberry Resort (which I do own) in Scotland, and filling up with fuel, with the crew staying overnight at Turnberry (they have good taste!). NOTHING TO DO WITH ME,&#8221; he tweeted.
&#8220;I had nothing to do with the decision of our great @VP Mike Pence to stay overnight at one of the Trump owned resorts in Doonbeg, Ireland,&#8221; he added in a follow-up post. &#8220;Mike’s family has lived in Doonbeg for many years, and he thought that during his very busy European visit, he would stop and see his family!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">I know nothing about an Air Force plane landing at an airport (which I do not own and have nothing to do with) near Turnberry Resort (which I do own) in Scotland, and filling up with fuel, with the crew staying overnight at Turnberry (they have good taste!). NOTHING TO DO WITH ME
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1171056605233852416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">I had nothing to do with the decision of our great <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> Mike Pence to stay overnight at one of the Trump owned resorts in Doonbeg, Ireland. Mike’s family has lived in Doonbeg for many years, and he thought that during his very busy European visit, he would stop and see his family!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1171058875220541441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Prior to posting about the resort stories, Trump once again blasted away at the media for its one-sided coverage of his presidency.
&#8220;As bad as @CNN is, Comcast MSNBC is worse. Their ratings are also way down because they have lost all credibility,&#8221; he wrote Monday morning. &#8220;I believe their stories about me are not 93% negative, but actually 100% negative. They are incapable of saying anything positive, despite all of the great things that this Administration has done. They don&#8217;t talk about the great economy, the big tax and regulation cuts, the rebuilding of the Military, &#8216;Choice&#8217; at our VA, our Vets, Judges and Supreme Court Justices, the Border Wall going up, lowest crime numbers, 2nd A, and so much more!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">As bad as <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> is, Comcast MSNBC is worse. Their ratings are also way down because they have lost all credibility. I believe their stories about me are not 93% negative, but actually 100% negative. They are incapable of saying anything positive, despite all of the great things&#8230;
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1171051472689270784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">..that this Administration has done. They don’t talk about the great economy, the big tax and regulation cuts, the rebuilding of the Military, “Choice” at our VA, our Vets, Judges and Supreme Court Justices, the Border Wall going up, lowest crime numbers, 2nd A, and so much more!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1171051473607823360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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On Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence garnered big applause in Indianapolis when he openly defended a veterans hospital publicly displaying a Holy Bible to commemorate imprisoned veterans.
According to the <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/28/mike-pence-indianapolis-vp-boasts-new-american-strength/2085555001/">Indianapolis Star</a>, the vice president addressed the American Legion&#8217;s 101st national convention on Wednesday night where he spoke about a range of issues important to the Trump administration, from foreign policy to the bettering of healthcare for veterans. His most triumphant moment, however, came when he declared that the VA would not be a &#8220;religion-free&#8221; zone.
&#8220;Perhaps the biggest applause came when Pence said the VA would not be a &#8216;religion-free&#8217; zone, referencing a lawsuit in New Hampshire <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/07/bible-display-veterans-affairs-new-hampshire-facility-spurs-lawsuit/1119974001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a">that seeks to remove a historic Bible in a VA hospital</a>,&#8221; reports the outlet.
The lawsuit erupted in May of this year when the non-profit group Military Religious Freedom Foundation enlisted a veteran to file a lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs over a historic Bible on display at a VA facility in New Hampshire. Mikey Weinstein, founder of the group, told the Indy Star that the VA was essentially raising one faith above all the rest by displaying the Bible at all.
&#8220;That is stamping it with the approval of raising one faith over all the others,&#8221; he said. &#8220;From our perspective, it&#8217;s a repugnant example of fundamentalist Christian triumphalism, exceptionalism, superiority, and domination, and it cannot stand.&#8221;
The lawsuit also claimed that the plaintiff was a devout Christain who simply respected the religious beliefs of other service members. &#8220;As a Christian, he respects and loves all his military brothers and sisters and does not want to be exclusionary by placement of the Christian Bible,&#8221; it said.
VA spokeswoman Kristin Pressly told USA Today that the Bible was removed temporarily but was subsequently placed back on display after considerable outcry from veterans. The Bible was part of a memorial to commemorate missing and imprisoned service members.
&#8220;Manchester VAMC officials temporarily removed the Bible from the display out of an abundance of caution,&#8221; Pressly said. &#8220;Following that removal, Manchester VAMC received an outpouring of complaints from Veterans and other stakeholders – many of whom dropped off Bibles at the facility — in protest of this action.&#8221;
Pressly added that the Bible will stay and &#8220;remain indefinitely as part of the missing man display, a secular tribute to America&#8217;s POW/MIA community.&#8221;
National VA spokesman Curt Cashour denounced the lawsuit at the time as &#8220;nothing more than an attempt to force VA into censoring a show of respect for America&#8217;s POW/MIA community.&#8221;
Vice President Mike Pence has previously spoken out about the importance of publicly displaying faith. Earlier in the month, while speaking before the Alliance Defending Freedom, Pence urged people to spend more time on their knees in prayer than on the internet.
&#8220;Spend more time on your knees than on the internet … Forgiveness is a great gift,&#8221; he said. &#8220;As a Christian believer we&#8217;re charged to pray for our loved ones but also pray for our enemies. You have lots of opportunities in politics to do that.&#8221;

Mike Pence Defends Bible On Display At Veterans Hospital

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On Sunday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg appeared on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221; During the segment, host Jake Tapper asked Buttigieg about the difference between religious voters in the Democratic Party and religious voters in the Republican Party.
<blockquote>TAPPER: You have been struggling to win over African-American voters during this campaign so far, even as you have been rising. Less than half of black Protestant Christians support same-sex marriage. You&#8217;re headed to a black church later today. Do you think that the fact that you&#8217;re gay is part of what might be holding you back with at least some black voters?
BUTTIGIEG: I think most black voters, like most voters in general, want to know what the candidates are actually going to do to improve their lives. And when I talk to black voters in particular, there&#8217;s a sense of having been taken for granted in politics and a sense that candidates haven&#8217;t always been speaking to them or earning their trust.
So, more than anything, I think my job is to make sure that I explain how our vision for increasing the number of black entrepreneurs is going to lead to economic empowerment, how the part of my Douglass Plan for tackling institutional racism that works on health will help close the maternal mortality gap.
I think a lot of these other factors start to wash away once voters understand what it&#8217;s going to mean for them that you, vs. the others, are in office. But we have got six months to make sure we get that message out, make sure we demonstrate that I&#8217;m serious about the things I would do as president.
And that&#8217;s how I plan to earn support among black voters, whether it&#8217;s here in South Carolina or across the country.
TAPPER: You have been critical in the past of Vice President Mike Pence&#8217;s positions on LGBT issues and the fact that his religious conservatism on these issues obviously influences an anti-LGBT view on policies.
You have said, &#8220;I have a problem with religion being used as a justification to harm people, and especially in the LGBT community,&#8221; calling same-sex marriage a moral issue.
Obviously, this is not the same thing, but explain how it&#8217;s different that there are Democratic voters who might have an issue with LGBTQ rights. How is that different from Vice President Pence, if they&#8217;re both based in religious views?
BUTTIGIEG: Well, I think back to my experience in Indiana when I was running for reelection after I came out in a community that&#8217;s generally Democratic, but also quite socially conservative. And I just laid out the case on the kind of job that I was doing – and what I found was, a lot of people were able to move past old prejudices and move into the future.
This is not an easy conversation for a lot of people who have, frankly, been brought up in a certain way and are struggling to get onto the right side of history. But I also believe that this conversation is picking up speed, that it&#8217;s a healthy conversation, and that where it leads is an understanding that all marginalized people need to stand together at a time when so many Americans in so many different ways, especially under this presidency, are coming under attack.</blockquote>
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As Tapper mentioned, Buttigieg has a history of criticizing Vice President Mike Pence over his Christianity.
In April, Buttigieg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45743/pete-buttigiegs-bad-faith-campaign-michael-j-knowles">gave a speech</a> before the LGBTQ Victory Fund National Champagne, during which he stated: &#8220;I can tell you that if me being gay was a choice, it was a choice that was made far, far above my pay grade. And that&#8217;s the thing I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand – that if you&#8217;ve got a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.&#8221;
He later called Pence &#8220;nice&#8221; but &#8220;fanatical&#8221; during an appearance on &#8220;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.&#8221;
Pence <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45917/pence-responds-buttigiegs-attacks-him-he-knows-hank-berrien">replied</a> to Buttigieg&#8217;s remarks on CNBC, stating: &#8220;I worked very closely with Mayor Pete when I was governor of the state of Indiana. We had a great working relationship and he said some things that are critical of my Christian faith and about me personally, and he knows better; he knows me. But I get it you know, it&#8217;s like – you have 19 people running for president on that side &#8230; in a party that&#8217;s sliding off to the Left &#8230; and they&#8217;re all competing with each other for how liberal they can be.&#8221;

WATCH: Buttigieg Dodges Question On Difference Between Religious Democrats And Religious Republicans

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UPDATE: The post was not written by Tommy Lee himself, but ripped from a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/8z4tpe/you_trumpsters_better_pray_that_liberals_never/">post</a> that went viral last year on sites like reddit. 
On Wednesday, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee posted a lengthy social media diatribe attacking conservatives. Lee smeared Christians as anti-LGBT “bigoted f***s” and promised a rainbow painted White House, Planned Parenthood abortion clinics on every street, and “a gargantuan metal mountain emblazoned with the face of Hillary Clinton” made from conservatives’ confiscated guns, among other niceties.
&#8220;You &#8216;Trumpsters&#8217; better pray that liberals never gain control of the [White House] again because we are going to pay you back so f***ing hard for all this s***,&#8221; the musician posted on an Instagram story.
&#8220;Planned Parenthoods on every damn corner. We&#8217;re going to repaint Air Force One p**** hat pink and fly it over your beloved Bible Belt 6 days a week, tossing birth control pills, condoms &amp; atheist literature from the cockpit,&#8221; he spewed.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to tax your mega churches so bad that Joel [Osteen] will need to get a job at [Chick-fil-A] to pay his light bill. Speaking of [Chick-fil-A], we&#8217;re buying all those and giving them to any LGBTQ person your sick cult leaders tortured with conversion therapy.&#8221;
Lee then targeted Vice President Mike Pence: &#8220;Try the McPence. It&#8217;s a boiled unseasoned chicken breast that you have to eat in the closet with your mother.&#8221;
Guns were never on the agenda: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to gather up ALL your guns, melt them down and turn them into a gargantuan metal mountain emblazoned with the face of Hillary Clinton.&#8221;
&#8220;ALL parks will be renamed Rosa Parks asap. We&#8217;re replacing Confederate statues with [Black Lives Matter] Leaders &amp; Mexican immigrants. Every single public school will be renamed after a child that was kidnapped by this regime. And after we fumigate the [White House], we&#8217;re repainting the whole thing rainbow.&#8221;
&#8220;Fox News will be taken over and turned into a family refugee shelter,&#8221; the drummer continued. &#8220;We&#8217;re turning [Fox News host Sean] Hannity&#8217;s office into a giant unisex bathroom with changing tables &amp; free tampons.”
Lee ended the post: &#8220;And every single time a &#8216;Trumpster&#8217; complains about any of the changes, we&#8217;re adding an openly gay character to a Disney movie.&#8221;
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On Monday, Lee responded to social media users telling him to &#8220;stick to drumming.&#8221; &#8220;The next person who tells me to stick to drumming and stay out of politics, I&#8217;m gonna come to ur house and shove my drumsticks up ur a** until you sneeze,&#8221; he wrote, adding a middle finger emoji.
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— Tmmy L33 (@MrTommyLand) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrTommyLand/status/1158519930939043840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Ummm excuse me I have to go take a trump!!!&#8221; he posted on Thursday:
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— Tmmy L33 (@MrTommyLand) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrTommyLand/status/1159555583780876288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Tommy Lee

Tommy Lee’s Nasty Diatribe Against Conservatives: ‘You Trumpsters Better Pray Liberals Never Gain Control Of The White House Again’

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In a recent interview with <a href="http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a28624503/woody-harrelson-donald-trump-dinner-mike-pence/">Esquire Magazine</a>, actor Woody Harrelson described a dinner he had with Donald Trump and his then-girlfriend Melania in the early 2000s. While he slams the future president, unlike many of his Hollywood peers, the &#8220;Zombieland&#8221; actor doesn&#8217;t revert to political virtue-signaling. Instead, Harrelson just does what he always does: calls it like he sees it in plain language.
According to Harrelson, he once sat down for an intimate dinner with Trump and his then-girlfriend Melania around 2002 at the behest of his good friend, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura.
&#8220;So, Jesse Ventura is a buddy of mine, and he called me up — and this is in, oh, 2002 — and said, ‘Donald Trump is going to try to convince me to be his running mate for the Democratic ticket in 2004. Will you be my date?’&#8221; Harrelson said, as highlighted by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/woody-harrelson-rips-trump-while-recalling-brutal-dinner-it-got-so-bad-i-had-to-go-outside-and-burn-one">Fox News</a>.
Harrelson recalled how he eventually grew impatient during the dinner as Trump just filibustered the conversation, hijacking every moment, leaving little room for others to speak. Harrelson referred to this as a &#8220;monologue monopoly.&#8221;
&#8220;I said, &#8216;Yeah, man.&#8217; So we all met at Trump Tower, sat down. Melania was there, only she wasn&#8217;t his wife yet. And it was, let me tell you, a brutal dinner,&#8221; said the actor. &#8220;Two and a half hours. The fun part was watching Jesse&#8217;s moves. It would look like Trump had him pinned, was going to get him to say yes, and then Jesse would slip out at the last second. Now, at a fair table with four people, each person is entitled to 25 percent of the conversation, right? I&#8217;d say Melania got about 0.1 percent, maybe. I got about 1 percent. And the governor, Jesse, he got about 3 percent. Trump took the rest. It got so bad I had to go outside and burn one before returning to the monologue monopoly.&#8221;
Harrelson just described the situation as he experienced it, keeping it free of politics. At one point, he remembered how Trump referenced the fact that his kids will fight over his wealth when he passes away.
&#8220;Listen, I came up through Hollywood, so I&#8217;ve seen narcissists. This guy was beyond. It blew my mind. He did say one thing that was interesting, though. He said, &#8216;You know, I&#8217;m worth four billion dollars,&#8217; or maybe he said five billion dollars — one of those numbers, I forget,&#8221; continued Harrelson. &#8220;Anyway, he said, &#8216;I&#8217;m worth, however many billion dollars. But when I die, no matter how much it is, I know my kids are going to fight over it.&#8217; That was the one true statement he made that night, and I thought, &#8216;Okay, yeah, that&#8217;s pretty cool.'&#8221;
Harrelson also talked about an experience when he was a freshman in college he had with Mike Pence, who he recalled as being a &#8220;sincere&#8221; person. &#8220;As a freshman, I gave a sermon to a youth group, and Mike was the guy running the show,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He was a junior, I think &#8230; He struck me as a nice guy, very sincere. I don’t know how well we&#8217;d get along now, but we got along okay then.&#8221;
Harrelson has often taken a less partisan approach to politics than most of his peers. In an interview with <a href="https://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2013/05/woody-harrelson-im-an-anarchist-165139">Politico</a> in 2013, for instance, he described himself as an &#8220;anarchist,&#8221; with no appreciation for Republicans or Democrats, and even compared President Obama to President Nixon.
&#8220;It&#8217;s all synchronized swimming to me. They all kneel and kiss the ring,&#8221; Harrelson said of politicians. &#8220;Who&#8217;s going to take on the oil industry or the medical industry?&#8221;
At the time, Harrelson compared President Obama&#8217;s escalation of the war in Afghanistan to President Nixon&#8217;s escalation in Vietnam. &#8220;People compare Obama to Lyndon Johnson, but I think a better comparison is between Obama and Nixon,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Because Nixon came into office saying he was going to pull out of Vietnam, and then he escalated the war. A lot of us were led to believe that Obama was the peace president, but there are still, I think, 70,000 troops in Afghanistan.&#8221;

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Woody Harrelson Recalls Dinner With Donald Trump: ‘I’ve Seen Narcissists. This Guy Was Beyond’

On Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence was speaking to the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian religious liberty organization, when ADF’s CEO Michael Farris asked for advice on how Pence dealt with attacks on his faith and beliefs. Pence, whose wife Karen was viciously attacked for teaching part-time at a Christian school, replied, ““No. 1 is, spend more time on your knees than on the internet … Forgiveness is a great gift.”
Pence also stated, “As a Christian believer we’re charged to pray for our loved ones but also pray for our enemies. You have lots of opportunities in politics to do that.”
The Washington Times, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/6/pence-spend-more-time-your-knees-internet/?cache">reporting the story</a>, wrote on Twitter, “Mike Pence: &#8216;Spend more time on your knees than on the internet.&#8217;”
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— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/WashTimes/status/1158776449563840518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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That prompted feminists to mock Pence for using a phrase that they interpreted in their own way:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">OK, who’s gonna tell him? <a href="https://t.co/fc1U9FC6Hw">https://t.co/fc1U9FC6Hw</a>
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) <a href="https://twitter.com/laurenduca/status/1158875315332165643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Monica Lewinsky, whose experiences with former President Bill Clinton apparently gave her the urge to chime in, responded:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">def not me.
— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1159068458111262720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Prompting Duca to respond:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">I FUCKING ADORE YOU <a href="https://t.co/oFYUOfwUMj">pic.twitter.com/oFYUOfwUMj</a>
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) <a href="https://twitter.com/laurenduca/status/1159121829405110273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Pence has been mocked by leftists for years for his religious faith; in December 2016, when he was vice-president-elect, residents in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where Pence had rented a house, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/11940/maryland-residents-try-shame-mike-pence-abortion-frank-camp">put up yard signs</a> provided by NARAL Pro-Choice America reading &#8220;This Neighborhood Trusts Women.&#8221; In January 2017, a few hundred LGBT activists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/12566/watch-activists-hold-queer-dance-party-mike-pences-james-barrett">staged</a> &#8220;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/231875073926930/permalink/233346287113142/">Queer Dance Party at Mike Pence&#8217;s House</a>&#8221; outside Pence’s home.
In March 2017, <a href="https://nymag.com/thecut/2017/03/only-woman-pence-is-allowed-to-eat-alone-with-is-his-wife.html?mid=twitter-share-thecut">New York Magazine</a> mocked Pence for stating he would not eat alone with a woman other than his wife, writing, “To achieve such a feat, Pence reportedly won’t have dinner alone with a woman who is not his wife; he also won’t attend any events where alcohol is served unless Karen is by his side. Suddenly the ‘<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-radical-crusade-of-mike-pence-w462223">mother</a>’ makes a lot more sense.” <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/03/29/mike_pence_s_tight_relationship_with_his_wife_doesn_t_mean_he_respects_women.html">Slate</a> added, “Pity the poor soul who tries to come between Vice President Mike Pence and <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/01/23/does_mike_pence_call_his_wife_mother_a_rolling_stone_piece_says_he_does.html">his ‘mother,’ or rather, his wife, Karen</a>. Thick as prayer-loving, Bible-studying thieves, the two are so close ‘you can’t get a dime between them,’ as one official is quoted …”
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/14925/left-goes-nuts-over-reports-pence-will-only-eat-hank-berrien">noted </a>at the time:
<blockquote>The Pences are likely following the Billy Graham rule. Graham <a href="http://pulpitandpen.org/2016/12/06/the-billy-graham-rule-millard-fuller-clayton-jennings-tom-chantry-and-common-sense/">vowed</a> “never to meet, eat, or travel alone with a woman other than his wife, a strategy to protect his marriage and to avoid even the appearance of an inappropriate relationship.” That code of conduct is far older than Graham; Jewish law has <a href="http://www.jewishwomenshealth.org/article.php?article=80">stated</a> for millennia that men and women are forbidden from being alone together in a secluded location unless they are married to each other or are close family members.</blockquote>
In May 2012, Pence was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/16384/pence-says-christians-are-most-victimized-religion-aaron-bandler">ripped by the Left</a> after stating, &#8220;The reality is across the wider world the Christian faith is under siege. Throughout the world, no people of faith today face greater hostility or hatred than followers of Christ.&#8221;
In December 2017, Planned Parenthood mocked Pence by suggesting supporters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25076/planned-parenthood-give-mike-pence-condoms-ben-shapiro">send him condoms</a>. In February, Jimmy Kimmel targeted Pence with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27093/jimmy-kimmel-works-pence-gay-joke-obamatrump-james-barrett">joke about homosexuality</a>. In January 2019, an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42412/watch-msnbc-guest-calls-mike-pence-jesus-whisperer-frank-camp">MSNBC guest</a> called Pence “The Jesus Whisperer.”

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