Speaking at a townhall in Lebanon, New Hampshire on Sunday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, as usual resorting to a snide attitude, responded to a questioner who asked who her “Mike Pence” would be if she were elected president. Warren sneered, “I already have a dog.”
The voter asked Warren if she ever whispered to her dog, “Who is going to be my Mike Pence?” That prompted Warren’s derisive remark, according to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/482364-warren-on-her-choice-to-replace-mike-pence-i-already-have-a-dog">The Hill.</a>
Warren continued, “I want people who are there because they believe in public service. I want people who are gonna be good partners in this fight. I want people who are willing to pick up the tools that are already there and to use them on behalf of the public. It’s so easy to get discouraged and to say Mitch McConnell just ruins everything. There&#8217;s a lot of truth in that, too, but it isn&#8217;t everything. There is a lot we can still do.”
Warren added, “I want smart people. &#8230; I want people who have ideas. I want people who have worked in the fields. I want people who believe that they can be part of putting government on the side of our citizens instead of on the sides of giant corporations.”
Warren’s patronizing attitude has been on display in many ways as she continues on her elitist path; last October, speaking at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and CNN’s presidential town hall event, Warren <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-cnn-lbgtq-event-elizabeth-warren-contemptuously-dismisses-men-of-faith">insulted men of faith</a>, implying that they would never find a woman who would marry them.
Morgan Cox, Chair of the Human Rights Campaign’s Board of Directors, asked Warren, “Let’s say you’re on the campaign trail and you’re approached—” Warren interrupted, “I have been.” Cox finished, “You have been, yes. And a supporter approaches you and says, ‘Senator, I’m old-fashioned, and my faith teaches me that marriage is between one man and one woman.’ What is your response?”
First, Warren assumed that only a man of faith would believe in Biblical values and that a woman of faith would not take Biblical injunctions seriously, as she replied, “Well, I’m going to assume it’s a guy who said that.” She continued, “And I’m gonna say, ‘Then just marry one woman.’”
As the crowd laughed and applauded, Warren jibed, “I’m cool with that.” The crowd gave a sustained ovation, prompting Warren, trying for one last zinger, to add bitingly, “Assuming you can find one.”
In March 2019, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desperate-attention-warren-snaps-pence-homophobic-hank-berrien">Warren said</a> that Pence was not an honorable man and engaged in “homophobia and attacks on people who are different from himself.”
Warren was appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” where she was asked by &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; co-host Mika Brzezinski, “Is Mike Pence an honorable man?” Warren answered immediately, &#8220;No.&#8221; Brzezinski was taken aback by the immediacy of the response, managing, “Okay, would you like to expound upon that?”
Warren gladly continued, &#8220;Sure. Anyone who engages in the kind of homophobia and attacks on people who are different from himself is not an honorable person. That&#8217;s not what honorable people do.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/elizabeth-warren-mike-pence-not-honorable-person-homophobia-1361354?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Social">Newsweek</a> reported, “In July 2016, after the Trump-Pence Republican ticket was announced, Warren said Pence ‘is famous for trying to control women’s bodies,’ and that the two men with their ‘sexism’ are ‘in line with the party platform.’”

Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren Meets With Voters Ahead Of NH Primary

Asked Who’d Be Her V.P., Warren Sneers That Pence Is A ‘Dog’

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Vice President Mike Pence told Fox Business on Friday that Republicans have big plans on several key issues that they are working on unveiling in 2020, ahead of the upcoming election, that will hopefully seal the deal on getting President Donald Trump re-elected.
When asked by Fox Business host Stuart Varney if tax cuts 2.0 were coming, Pence responded, &#8220;Oh, they’re absolutely coming.&#8221;
&#8220;I expect we’ll be talking about that before this election year is out,&#8221; Pence responded. &#8220;It’s one of the reasons why we’re going to focus so much energy on making sure that not only do we get President Donald Trump four more years in this White House, but we’re going to make sure that we reelect a Republican Senate and elect a Republican House of Representatives.&#8221;
&#8220;Stuart, you were there every step of the way,&#8221; Pence continued. &#8220;You saw the incredible progress we made when we had a Republican majority in the Senate and a Republican majority in the House.&#8221;
Pence highlighted four key issues that Republicans were going to focus on unveiling plans for ahead of the 2020 elections.
Pence said, &#8220;We’re going to lay out our vision on tax reform, on healthcare, on infrastructure, on prescription drugs, and we’re going to go out there and fight every day, as I said, to get this president four more years but also to make sure that we have Republican allies in the majority in the Congress to help us bring it about.&#8221;
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<blockquote>STUART VARNEY, VARNEY &amp; CO. HOST: And here is the president of the united &#8212; Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence. Almost got it wrong there, Mr. Vice President, but we’re glad you’re with us.
MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Thank you, Stuart. Great to be with you.
VARNEY: What’s the move &#8212;
(CROSSTALK)
PENCE: It’s a great week for America and a great week for President Donald Trump.
VARNEY: Are you guys doing high fives in the White House? What’s the mood?
PENCE: Well, as I said, I mean, in that State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the president focused on the American people, the incredible progress that we’ve made. This is a blue collar boom, more than seven million jobs created. The jobs report that came out today, another 225,000 jobs. The wages are rising most rapidly for hardworking blue collar Americans. Add to that, we’ve rebuilt our military, standing tall in the world, standing &#8212;
VARNEY: It’s impressive.
PENCE: &#8212; standing with our allies, standing up to our enemies.
VARNEY: Yes.
PENCE: Strong conservatives through our courts, the president’s acquittal, and now &#8212; and now ending the week confirming that Americans are winning like never before, and it’s thanks to the leadership of President Donald Trump.
VARNEY: Now, I have to tell you, Mr. Vice President, that Speaker Pelosi says there’s no blue collar boom and that President Trump did nothing for the economy. Your response, please?
PENCE: Well, it really is remarkable the Democrats are actually out arguing against an economy that is expanding all across this country. You know, Stuart, I travel on a very regular basis and I have working Americans coming up to me every day talking about the fact that they got more money in their pockets, their kids are able to find jobs when they come out of school, and that’s all confirmed in the January jobs report again today.
I mean, I have to tell you, I mean, one of the numbers that is most exciting, and it’ll be exciting to your viewers, is the labor participation rate continues to rise. I mean, literally where we saw the economy under the last administration, an administration that tried to tax and regulate and bail us back to a growing economy, thanks to the president’s agenda of less taxes, less regulation, free and fair trade, unleashing American energy, now we see three &#8212; you know, three and half million Americans have come back into the workforce and even more in the report that came out today, and wages are rising across the board rapidly but most rapidly for hardworking blue collar Americans.
I mean, if Democrats want to argue against this economy, we’ll make that argument every day between now and November. And it’s just going to be one more reason why we get four more years from President Donald Trump in the White House.
VARNEY: Forgive me, sir, but I want to go back to the State of the Union message and Speaker Pelosi standing there ripping up the four pages of the president’s speech. Now, you were standing right there. You appeared very stoic. I didn’t see much change of expression on your face. What we’re you thinking when you saw the speaker rip up the speech?
PENCE: Stuart, I honestly didn’t see her do it. I was focused where the president was, and that was out on the ovations and the crowd and in the gallery. I was enjoying looking up at the inspiring Americans that he had introduced to the country.
But I must tell you, when I learned moments later that she had literally torn up the president’s State of the Union address on national television, I thought it was a new low &#8212; a new low for a Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
And I’ll also tell you, you know, the contrast between President Trump’s State of the Union address that he made all about America, all about the American people and the progress that we have all made under his leadership and having Speaker Nancy Pelosi try to make it about her, I think it tells you all you need to know about this radical leftist Democratic Party which seems to never seize any opportunity &#8212;
VARNEY: I agree, yes.
PENCE: &#8212; to try and distract from the extraordinary progress that the American people have made under the leadership of President Donald Trump.
VARNEY: The aftermath of impeachment and the aftermath of ripping up the speech is President Trump getting personal and saying that Speaker Pelosi is a horrible person and appearing to question her faith and her prayer.
Do you want to get involved in that kind of personal tit for tat or do you want to stay out of it?
PENCE: Well look, the American people know what’s going on here. My wife was in New Hampshire last night, and she heard from a lot of great folks that turned out for a Keep America Great rally, how much they appreciate all this president has endured over the last three years.
I mean, when you think about the progress we’ve made, rebuilding our military, reviving our economy, strengthening our liberties with conservatives on our courts, America respected in the world again, it’s important to remember that every day since our inauguration day Democrats have been trying to overturn the results of the last election. It was two and a half years of the Russia collusion hoax until the Justice Department found no collusion, no obstruction, case closed.
And then it seemed like it was just a matter of weeks, Stuart, before all of a sudden over a phone call with President Zelensky of Ukraine we were back on the impeachment express and the sham investigation followed by a partisan impeachment.
It was just a great moment this week when we saw the United States Senate vote to acquit the President of the United States of America. It’s over, and I don’t think any American would begrudge the president’s strong feelings about those who have spent so much energy in the last three years trying to stop him and this administration from turning this country around.
VARNEY: I want to turn to the virus, the Coronavirus.
PENCE: Right.
VARNEY: A ship doctor &#8212; cruise ship doctor in New Jersey this morning, two plane loads of American evacuees arrive &#8212; are supposed to arrive in California shortly. I just want your assessment of how we, America, has dealt so far with this virus?
PENCE: Well, President Trump took decisive and unprecedented action cancelling air flights, limiting access to this country from people coming from China now a week ago, and we continue to believe that the threat to the American public is low. That being said, we had meetings yesterday in the Oval Office with the CDC officials. The president spoke to President Xi last night.
Look, our hearts break for the people of China and the loss of life in the wake of this Coronavirus, and what the president made clear to President Xi is the United States is ready, willing, and able to work through the World Health Organization to provide assistance as they &#8212; as they get this Coronavirus under control.
But the American people can be confident President Trump is going to continue to put the health and safety of this country first, and the decisive action he’s taken to date we believe continues to keep us in a posture where the threat to the American people is low but we’re going to remain vigilant and remain aggressive to keep it that way.
VARNEY: Would you mind if I did a quick lighting round? OK, I’m going to do it.
Sorry about that, Mr. Vice President. First of all, Joe Biden?
PENCE: You know, candidly it is remarkable to see the disarray in the Democratic Party and that to see that what I think Bernie Sanders actually called it a mitigated disaster for their party &#8212;
(CROSSTALK)
VARNEY: OK.
PENCE: &#8212; in Iowa. Look, Iowa’s a great state. They’re great people, but obviously Joe Biden’s showing in the Iowa caucuses just tells you this is a party that more and more reflects the radical Democrats in the Congress of the United States, and we think that’s going to continue to propel and confuse their nominating process.
VARNEY: Mike Bloomberg.
PENCE: You know, honestly it’s hard for us to see the appeal of that candidacy. I mean, the American people know that we’ve got a president in the White House, an accomplished business leader who brought what he likes to call the American model to bear on reviving the American economy. I don’t think they’re going to be drawn to a business leader that’s interested in more taxes, more regulation, and taking us back to the failed policies of the past.
VARNEY: Tax cuts 2.0, are they coming?
PENCE: Oh, they’re absolutely coming. I expect we’ll be talking about that before this election year is out. It’s one of the reasons why we’re going to focus so much energy on making sure that not only do we get President Donald Trump four more years in this White House, but we’re going to make sure that we reelect a Republican Senate and elect a Republican House of Representatives.
Stuart, you were there every step of the way. You saw the incredible progress we made when we had a Republican majority in the Senate and a Republican majority in the House. We’re going to lay out our vision on tax reform, on healthcare, on infrastructure, on prescription drugs, and we’re going to go out there and fight every day, as I said, to get this president four more years but also to make sure that we have Republican allies in the majority in the Congress to help us bring it about.
VARNEY: I got to point out, Mr. Vice President, that Speaker Pelosi gave all the credit for the market and the economy to President Obama. Lighting response to that?
PENCE: It’s just &#8212; you know, honestly it is amazing to think that the last administration that tried to tax and spend and regulate us back to a growing economy resulting in less than two percent growth for eight years &#8212; the slowest economic recovery since the Great Recession &#8212; now can look at this booming American economy. More than seven million jobs created, wages rising, and think they had anything to do with it.
I mean, the American people know what the president said in the State of the Union was true that if he &#8212; if President Donald Trump had not been elected to the White House, if we hadn’t had allies in Congress willing to cut taxes, rollback regulation, unleash American energy, and fight for the kind of free and fair trade that you see in the USMCA, in the phase one China deal, this country would be in a very, very different place. We’d still be struggling economically as we were in the last administration, and the American people know better. They know this economy is booming. It’s a blue collar boom, and they know the credit goes to President Donald Trump.
VARNEY: Mr. Vice President Mike Pence, thank you very much for being with us, sir. Appreciate it.
PENCE: Thank you, Stuart. Good to be with you.
VARNEY: See you soon. Thank you very much.</blockquote>

President Trump Hosts Keep America Great Rally

Mike Pence: Expect GOP To Unveil Plans On 4 Key Issues In 2020 Ahead Of Elections

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s (D-CA) decision to tear up the president&#8217;s State of the Union address while standing behind him, the world watching, has resulted in significant blowback, including from the White House and the generally mild-mannered vice president.
During an appearance on &#8220;Fox and Friends&#8221; Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence was asked about Pelosi&#8217;s decision to rip up President Trump&#8217;s speech in front of the cameras immediately following the speech&#8217;s conclusion. The moment, said Pence, was a &#8220;new low&#8221; for Pelosi and her party.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t see her do it,&#8221; said the Vice President (video below). &#8220;I found out just a few moments later — and I think it was a new low.&#8221;
&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t sure if she was ripping up the speech or ripping up the Constitution,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;The contrast here was a president who spent an hour and a half making the speech about America,&#8221; Pence continued. &#8220;And Nancy Pelosi, in the final moments, tried to make it about her. And I think the American people see through it. I think they see through the pettiness, they see through the politics of all of it.&#8221;
&#8220;I think what they got last night was a speech that lifted up the country, that celebrated the incredible progress that we&#8217;ve made in our economy, rebuilding our military, strengthening our courts,&#8221; said Pence. &#8220;The stories the president told were American stories, and I just know that it was a great, great blessing to people all across America. And it&#8217;s one of the reasons you see the momentum growing behind this president.&#8221;
Pence closed his initial comments by offering a prediction. &#8220;I just have a strong feeling that she&#8217;s going to be the last Speaker of the House to sit in that chair for a long time,&#8221; he said.
After the hosts noted that &#8220;we&#8217;ve never seen anything like that before&#8221; and that Pelosi&#8217;s actions are being criticized by some as a &#8220;sore loser move,&#8221; Pence was asked if he thought the speaker planned the act of defiance all along.
&#8220;It felt like it. It was such an immediate moment,&#8221; said Pence.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been to a lot of State of the Union addresses as a member of Congress, and now this was my fourth as a Vice President of the United States,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And there&#8217;s always a basic decorum and a basic respect. But to have her stand up and tear up that speech really dishonored the moment, and I really thought it was beneath the dignity of a joint session of Congress — and I think it will be remembered as such.&#8221;
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Following her viral act of disrespect on the national stage, Pelosi told reporters that she felt compelled to do it because it was a &#8220;<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nancy-pelosi-rips-copy-state-union-speech-trump/story?id=68766230">dirty speech</a>&#8221; and that her actions were actually the more &#8220;courteous&#8221; thing to do considering the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-pelosi-suggests-she-was-going-to-do-something-much-worse-than-rip-up-speech">alternative</a>&#8221; — an alternative she chose not to specify.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-violates-protocol-by-refusing-to-announce-trump-properly-at-sotu-rips-up-speech">The Daily Wire</a> reported Tuesday night, Pelosi began the event by immediately breaking protocol in refusing to announce President Trump properly. &#8220;Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States,&#8221; the traditional introduction states. Pelosi instead chose to literally dis-&#8220;honor&#8221; Trump, stating simply, &#8220;Members of Congress, the President of the United States.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-officially-responds-to-pelosi-ripping-up-trumps-speech">White House Officially Responds To Pelosi Ripping Up Trump’s Speech</a>

Nancy Pelosi Shreds SOTU

WATCH: Pence Shreds Pelosi For Ripping Up Trump’s SOTU Speech, Makes Prediction

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Earlier today, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chill-prince-charles-did-not-snub-vice-president-mike-pence-at-world-holocaust-forum">noted</a>, Vice President Mike Pence was in Jerusalem, Israel to attend the World Holocaust Forum. This year&#8217;s Forum is themed around the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis&#8217; infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
&#8220;Vice President Mike Pence delivered a stirring speech in Jerusalem before an audience that included world leaders and Holocaust survivors, vowing that never again shall the world allow the atrocities committed by the Nazis to be repeated,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pence-speaks-in-israel-at-auschwitz-liberation-anniversary">reported</a>. &#8220;Pence spoke on behalf of the United States, joined by leaders of more than 40 nations, at Israel&#8217;s Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.&#8221;
Pence, a devout Christian who previously served as Indiana governor and a U.S. congressman from the Hoosier State, is a longtime friend of the Jewish people and a staunch supporter of the Jewish state of Israel.
“To look at Israel is to see that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob keeps his promises,” Pence has said at the annual <a href="https://www.cufi.org/mike-pence-to-cufi-i-support-israel-because-i-am-a-christian/">Christians United for Israel</a> national convention. “Like all of you, my passion for Israel springs from my Christian faith. The songs of the land and the people of Israel were the anthems of my youth. As for me and my house, we pray for the peace of Jerusalem and all who call her home. It’s really the greatest privilege of my life to serve as Vice President to a President who cares so deeply for our most cherished ally.”
Because the editors of The Daily Wire believe that the vice president&#8217;s remarks are particularly moving and deserve to be widely read, we are reproducing them in full (with hat tip to <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/we-marvel-at-jewish-resilience-full-text-of-pences-speech-to-holocaust-forum/">The Times of Israel</a>):
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President Rivlin, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Your Majesties, Presidents, Excellencies, honored survivors and distinguished guests: It is deeply humbling for me to stand before you today, on behalf of the American people, as we mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
On this occasion, here on Mount Herzl, we gather to fulfill a solemn obligation — an obligation of remembrance: to never allow the memory of those who died in the Holocaust to be forgotten by anyone, anywhere in the world.
The word “remember” appears no fewer than 169 times in the Hebrew Bible — for memory is the constant obligation of all generations.
And today we pause to remember what President Donald Trump rightly called the “dark stain on human history” — the greatest evil ever perpetuated by man against man in the long catalogue of human crime.
The faces of a million and a half children reduced to smoke under a silent sky for the crime of having a single Jewish grandparent. The night Elie Wiesel called “seven times sealed” consumed the faith of so many then, and challenges the faith of so many still.
Today we remember what happens when the powerless cry for help and the powerful refuse to answer.
The town’s name was Oświęcim. As part of their plan to destroy the very existence of Polish culture, the Nazis gave Polish towns German names. And this one they called Auschwitz.
When soldiers opened the gates of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, they found 7,000 half-starved, half-naked prisoners, hundreds of boxes of camp records that documented the greatest mass murder in history. Before the war was over, in its five years of existence, more than 1.1 million men, women, and children would perish at Auschwitz.
As my wife and I can attest firsthand, from this past year, one cannot walk the grounds of Auschwitz without being overcome with emotion and grief. One cannot see the piles of shoes, the gas chambers, the crematoriums, the lone boxcar facing the gate to the camp, and those grainy photographs of men, women, and children being sent to their deaths without asking: “How could they?”
Today we mourn with those who mourn and grieve with those who grieve. We remember the names and the faces and the promise of the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust.
Today we also pay tribute to those who survived, who all these years have borne witness to that evil and have served mankind by their example.
And today we honor and remember the memory of all the Allied forces, including more than two million American soldiers, who left hearth and home, suffered appalling casualties, and freed a continent from the grip of tyranny.
And, finally, we pay tribute to the memory of those non-Jewish heroes who saved countless lives — those the people of Israel call the “righteous among the nations.”
In an age of indifference, they acted. In an age of fear, they showed courage. And their memory and their example should kindle anew the flame of our hearts to do the same in our time.
We must be prepared to stand as they did against the wave of their times. We must be prepared to confront and expose the vile tide of anti-Semitism that is fueling hate and violence all across the world. And we must stand together.
In that same spirit, we must also stand strong against the leading state purveyor of anti-Semitism, against the one government in the world that denies the Holocaust as a matter of state policy and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The world must stand strong against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
And, finally, we must have the courage to recognize all the leaders and all the nations that are gathered here that, today, we have the responsibility and the power to ensure that what we remember here today can never happen again.
Mr. Prime Minister, as we honor and remember the six million Jewish martyrs of the Holocaust, the world can only marvel at the faith and resilience of the Jewish people, who just three years after walking in the valley of the shadow of death, rose up from the ashes to reclaim a Jewish future and rebuild the Jewish State.
And I’m proud to say, as Vice President of the United States, that the American people have been with you every step of the way since 1948. And so we will remain.
As President Trump declared in his historic visit to Jerusalem, the bond between our two peoples is “woven together in the fabric of our hearts.” And so it shall always be.
Today we remember not simply the liberation of Auschwitz but also the triumph of freedom — a promise fulfilled, a people restored to their rightful place among the nations of the Earth. And we remember — we remember the long night of that past, the survivors and the faces of those we lost, the heroes who stood against those evil times. And today we gather nearly 50 nations strong, here in Jerusalem, to say with one voice: Never again.
Through pogroms, persecutions, and expulsions in the ghettos, and finally, even through the death camps, the Jewish people clung to an ancient promise that He would “never leave you or forsake you” and that he would leave this people to inherit the land that he swore to your ancestors that he would give them.
And so, today, as we bear witness to the strength and the resilience and the faith of the Jewish people, so too we bear witness to God’s faithfulness to the Jewish people.
May the memory of the martyrs be enshrined in the hearts of all humanity for all time.
May God bless the Jewish people, the State of Israel, the United States, and all the nations gathered here.
And may He who creates peace in the heavens create peace for us and for all the world.
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Mike Pence At World Holocaust Forum: ‘We Bear Witness To God’s Faithfulness To The Jewish People’

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Leftists on Twitter were overjoyed Thursday after video from the World Holocaust Forum surfaced, appearing to show the United Kingdom&#8217;s Prince Charles snubbing American Vice President Mike Pence, ignoring Pence&#8217;s offered hand in a receiving line, leaving the Vice President looking crestfallen.
But the Vice President&#8217;s office is already pushing back on the claims, saying the pair had a congenial chat right before the video was taken and that they&#8217;d already greeted each other, so the pair didn&#8217;t shake hands again after the Prince&#8217;s speech marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camp, Auschwitz.
There was an outbreak of leftist glee over the alleged incident, as opponents of the Vice President&#8217;s boss, President Donald Trump, lauded Prince Charles for stabbing at the administration.
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I’m sure Prince Charles just snubbed Mike Pence. Titter 
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MSNBC was visibly thrilled.
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&quot;Just before the program started, Prince Charles entered, bypassing the Pences completely before greeting other leaders and taking his seat.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/9hm5KWe05Q">https://t.co/9hm5KWe05Q</a>
&mdash; Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) <a href="https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1220360595381391361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Others praised Prince Charles for recognizing &#8220;evil.&#8221;
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a snub so blatant as Prince Charles taking half a glance at Mike Pence and being like: “Not today, Satan.” <a href="https://t.co/9hZhj7UbEm">pic.twitter.com/9hZhj7UbEm</a>
&mdash; Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) <a href="https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1220381643992637440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Vice President&#8217;s press pool reported that, &#8220;When Prince Charles arrived, he greeted leaders in the front row, and shook PM Netanyahu’s hand — but skipped VP Pence. &#8220;
There&#8217;s just one problem: the pair met before this interaction and, according to the Vice President&#8217;s press secretary, had a congenial conversation. For those who may not believe the White House&#8217;s press department, there&#8217;s even photographic evidence.
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All smiles as VP Pence exchanges greetings with Prince Charles at World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem which <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> addressed this morning. (Official White House Photo Myles D. Cullen) <a href="https://t.co/R85PXgBxHo">pic.twitter.com/R85PXgBxHo</a>
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Bloomberg News&#8217; Jennifer Jacobs filled in the blanks.
&#8220;Pence’s spokeswoman says the VP and the Second Lady spoke with Prince Charles for five minutes in the pre-program before they entered the hall,&#8221; she reported, quoting further reports from the same press pool that reported the snub. &#8220;After Pence spoke, he shook hands with Prince Charles, Macron, Putin and Netanyahu. Via pool reporter.&#8221;
It would be unusual for Prince Charles to make such an overt political statement, regardless, even if he dramatically disagrees with the Trump Administration over key issues like climate change (the Prince took an electric car to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to demonstrate his commitment to saving the planet, even as President Donald Trump warned attendees that the &#8220;crisis&#8221; was overblown).
The royal family is prohibited by protocol from expressing a negative opinion on world leaders and airing such disagreements in public &#8212; the rule is one of the reasons, royal watchers speculate, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, were in such a hurry to ditch their formal ties to the family. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are far more political than the rest of the family, and, reportedly, wanted to be free to express their support for their pet causes.
Prince Charles, if nothing else, is a stickler for protocol, largely thanks to his mother, Queen Elizabeth, and he certainly would be keen to avoid making headlines right now, given how much flack the royal family has taken in recent weeks, between Harry and Meghan&#8217;s departure, and the saga surrounding Prince Andrew, who was a close personal friend of now-deceased convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, and likely named as a &#8220;client&#8221; of Epstein&#8217;s global sex trafficking ring in documents associated with Epstein&#8217;s prosecution.
Both Pence and Prince Charles are attending the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, Israel, this week, and both delivered moving speeches in remembrance of the millions who died in the Holocaust on the 75th anniversay of the liberation of Auschwitz.

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CHILL: Prince Charles Did NOT Snub Vice President Mike Pence At World Holocaust Forum

During last night&#8217;s Democratic Party presidential primary debate, the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ia/iowa_democratic_presidential_caucus-6731.html">surging</a> Pete Buttigieg delivered a snide aside that would be headline-grabbing were it not merely part of a continuous line of attack. Discussing electability concerns in a back-and-forth with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Buttigieg, the rather <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/22/south-bend-poor-say-democrat-pete-buttigieg-left-them-behind.html">neglectful</a> mayor of <a href="https://patch.com/indiana/south-bend/south-bend-one-worst-cities-live-study-finds">shoddily managed</a> South Bend, Indiana, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/20/buttigieg-i-can-win-the-presidency-because-im-a-gay-man-in-mike-pences-indiana/">quipped</a>: &#8220;If you want to talk about the capacity to win, try putting together a coalition to bring you back to office with 80% of the vote, as a gay dude in Mike Pence’s Indiana.&#8221;
The implication, of course, is that the vice president of the United States — a Christian who takes his faith seriously — is somehow openly hostile to homosexuals. Even worse, it seems Buttigieg believes Pence, a former Indiana governor, was able to inculcate and disseminate such a viciously homophobic atmosphere throughout the Hoosier State during his gubernatorial tenure such that Buttigieg&#8217;s political rise was made much more difficult as a result.
These allegations, as Buttigieg&#8217;s Democratic presidential primary rival Joe Biden <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/02/democrat-voters-biden-malarkey-campaign-slogan-074727">might put it</a>, are malarkey. But the notion that Mike Pence is a homosexual-loathing troglodyte is more pernicious than that, too. Buttigieg&#8217;s nonstop bashing of Pence evinces a serious character flaw in the mayor. And it is shameful, to boot.
Buttigieg&#8217;s jihad against Pence is nothing new. Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro dedicated a <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/pete-buttigieg-attacks-mike-pence-bad-faith/">National Review column</a> over eight months ago to decrying Buttigieg&#8217;s &#8220;bad-faith attack&#8221; on Pence. At the time, Buttigieg&#8217;s verbal fusillade against the sitting vice president &#8220;betray[ed] a fundamental misunderstanding of religious people [in] suggest[ing] that their belief in the immorality of certain sexual behavior reflects animus for those who engage in that sexual behavior,&#8221; Ben wrote. And as Erick Erickson and many other conservative Christian commentators have argued, Buttigieg&#8217;s cloaking himself <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-pete-buttigieg-tried-use-bible-argue-matt-walsh">under the veneer of Scripture</a> to try to justify his invariably <a href="https://theresurgent.com/2019/04/08/on-meet-the-press-pete-buttigieg-shows-why-progressive-christianity-is-a-hypocritical-farce/">non-justifiable policy stances</a> is intellectually disingenuous.
Buttigieg&#8217;s self-serving distortions of biblical verses to defend his progressive social crusades — chiefly, abortion-on demand <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-pete-buttigieg-tried-use-bible-argue-matt-walsh">until birth</a> and the civilizational <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-remember-those-who-told-us-gay-marriage-would-not-lead-to-polyamory-they-were-wrong">redefinition of marriage</a> so as to delink sexual complementary — is itself malicious toward those religious Christians and Jews who (properly) read the Bible as supporting contrary policy positions. But the deeply personal nature of his ceaseless singling out of Pence, in particular, is uniquely off-putting. There is no rational reason whatsoever for Buttigieg to care this much about Pence, who has never publicly spoken of Buttigieg with anything other than dignity and charity.
At its core, Buttigieg&#8217;s insatiable desire to invoke Pence as a bogeyman for all his woes reveals a proclivity for dishonesty and profound cynicism. Mike Pence is simply not an individual who should occupy such an outsized space in Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s head; on the contrary, there are many of us social conservatives with <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-vp-pick-mike-pence-evangelicals-225623">long enough memories to remember</a> how poorly then-Governor Pence handled Indiana&#8217;s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) &#8220;controversy&#8221; back in 2015. Pence&#8217;s dithering on Indiana&#8217;s RFRA and seeming willingness to appease the left-wing secularist mob by conceding the premise that portions of RFRA might somehow be &#8220;anti-gay&#8221; was not exactly an impressive demonstration of conservative mettle.
But Buttigieg has no use for any facts about Mike Pence. The South Bend mayor is happy to straw man to his heart&#8217;s content in order to make his political rise look more impressive than it actually is — and for what we can only assume is the inherent &#8220;joy&#8221; of smearing an upstanding man, to boot. It is a sad, petty, and bitter exercise.
Buttigieg may get a sick and twisted pleasure from all of this. But rational Americans can, and will, see it for what it is: Shameful.

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Last week, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) asked counsel for Vice President Mike Pence to declassify the vice president’s phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
This week, Pence’s office refused, saying the release of details from the conversation served “no purpose” especially considering the fact that a witness who testified before Schiff’s committee said Pence never mentioned any information in the call relevant to the impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump.
Democrats committed to impeaching Trump after a whistleblower claimed the president had demanded a quid pro quo from Zelensky, including an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his dealings with Ukraine as well as cooperating with an investigation into the origins of the Russia-collusion narrative. The day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced impeachment proceedings, Trump declassified a transcript of his phone call with Zelensky. Trump asked Zelensky for a “favor” by cooperating with the U.S. investigation into the origins of the Russia-collusion narrative. Trump also brought up the Bidens, but did not explicitly ask for a favor regarding their connection to Ukraine. Both Trump and Zelensky deny that any pressure was placed during the call.
Now Schiff wants to dig through other classified phone calls to support his claims that Trump abused his power of the presidency to get a foreign government to look into his political rival.
Pence isn’t playing along.
&#8220;While the contents of a classified call with a foreign head of state should never have been discussed in an unclassified Committee hearing or an unclassified deposition, it is clear from public testimony that the Vice President never raised the Bidens, Burisma, or Crowdstrike in his conversation with President Zelensky,&#8221; Pence&#8217;s office said a letter obtained <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/474220-pences-office-denies-schiff-request-to-declassify-call-more">by The Hill</a> and signed by the vice president’s counsel, Matthew Morgan.
&#8220;As you well know, a witness answered your direct question that the Vice President never raised those investigations,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;As such, the request to declassify and release another world leader transcript serves no purpose.&#8221;
The letter refers to Jennifer Williams, a foreign service officer and Pence staffer, who testified about Pence’s call last month.
Pence’s office on Wednesday slammed Schiff for requesting the Office of the Vice President “conduct a declassification review” three days after the House Intelligence Committee already voted to approve its report against Trump.
&#8220;This once again again [sic] illustrates the Committee&#8217;s lack of commitment to fundamental fairness and due process,&#8221; Morgan’s letter said, according to The Hill.
&#8220;The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has already voted out its partisan Report and transmitted it to the House Judiciary Committee,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;Your request, coming after the completion of your Report, serves no legitimate legislative or impeachment inquiry purpose.&#8221;
Schiff said in his initial letter to Pence that the vice president’s past willingness to releasing information regarding his contacts with Zelensky “means that you do not believe there is anything contained therein that would cause any harm to U.S. national security if publicly disclosed.”
The issue, then, comes down to whether Congress continues to set a precedent of releasing executive branch conversations with foreign leaders, something that could stifle international relations.

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Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday made a surprise trip to Iraq, greeting U.S. troops stationed there and meeting with Iraqi Kurdistan President Nechirvan Barzani.
Pence was there to reassure Iraqi Kurds that the U.S. continues to support them after President Donald Trump withdrew troops from northern Syria two months ago. It was the vice president&#8217;s second trip to the region in less than five weeks: Trump sent him to Ankara, Turkey, last month to help negotiate a ceasefire after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent troops to hit Kurdish fighters in northern Syria when the U.S. withdrew.
The vice president flew in a C-17 military cargo jet in order to keep the high-level trip secret. He landed in Erbil, where he met with Barzani. Pence also received a classified briefing at Iraq’s Al-Asad Air Base, the base that was the main headquarters for the operation in Syria last month that led to the death of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Pence also spoke by phone with Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Reuters reported.
Pence said he welcomes “the opportunity on behalf of President Donald Trump to reiterate the strong bonds forged in the fires of war between the people of the United States and the Kurdish people across this region,&#8221; <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-usa-pence/pence-visits-u-s-troops-in-iraq-holds-call-with-prime-minister-idUSKBN1XX0C6?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29">R</a><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-usa-pence/pence-visits-u-s-troops-in-iraq-holds-call-with-prime-minister-idUSKBN1XX0C6?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29">euters</a> said.
The vice president&#8217;s trip &#8220;also served to bolster U.S. troops ahead of next Thursday’s Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. The vice president and his wife, Karen, served a traditional meal to U.S. military personnel during the visit.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;While you come from the rest of us, you’re the best of us,&#8217; Pence told service members in a dusty hangar at Al-Asad,&#8221; the <a href="https://apnews.com/effb7b53dac54c12ba852ef8e5633691">Associated Press</a> reported. &#8220;He said the Trump administration is working to secure another pay increase for the armed services and suggested the ongoing impeachment inquiry in Washington was slowing the way.&#8221;
“Partisan politics and endless investigations have slowed things down in D.C.,” Pence said.
On his trip, Pence &#8220;hailed the cease-fire as the way to end the bloodshed caused by Turkey&#8217;s invasion, though he remained silent on whether it amounted to a second abandonment of America&#8217;s former Kurdish allies, many of whom are branded as terrorists by Ankara,&#8221; the AP reported.
<blockquote>On Nov. 13, Trump feted Erdogan with a White House visit over the objection of a bipartisan group of lawmakers who argued Erdogan should be denied the honor of a West Wing visit in the aftermath of the invasion and because of his decision to purchase Russian-made surface-to-air missiles over the objection of NATO allies.
Barzani thanked Pence for the U.S. military support in the fight against ISIS, adding that his “visit at this particular time is an important indication of your continued support to Kurdistan and Iraq.”
Weeks after declaring the near-complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria, Trump decided that roughly 800 would stay to keep eastern Syria&#8217;s oil fields from falling back into the hands of the Islamic State.</blockquote>
Barzani thanked Pence for the U.S. military support in the fight against the Islamic State group, adding that his “visit at this particular time is an important indication of your continued support to Kurdistan and Iraq.”

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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:
Statement from 
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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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;
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Pence Trump

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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Limbaugh: Trump’s Syria Speech Shows Again Why He Was Elected

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Mike Pompeo

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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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Trump Brings Up Pence In Ukraine Comments, Now Critics Declaring Pence Will Be Impeached Too

Trump Administration

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>
— Chandler Morgan (@Chandler_TV) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chandler_TV/status/1173700831184674817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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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.

‘SHOULD BE SHOT IN THE HEAD’: Secret Service Investigates Teacher’s Alleged Threat Against Pence

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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.”

Mike Pence Responds To House Democrats’ Investigation Into Ireland Trip

Elijah Cummings

Ireland

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;

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

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Gosnell

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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