Pence vs. Trump civil war ripples through the West Wing as Pence positions himself for misfortune

Dafinch · May 14, 2018

The guy is such an obvious kiss ass, who isn't exactly a disinterested observer when Dump goes down.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...tions-himself-for-misfortune?detail=emaildkre

Pence vs. Trump civil war ripples through the West Wing as Pence positions himself for misfortune

Kerry Eleveld
Daily Kos Staff

Monday May 14, 2018 · 10:02 AM PDT

While Donald Trump has been busy exerting plenty of sporadic unilateral control over regulatory issues like the AT&T/Time Warner merger, his right-hand man Mike Pence has been elbowing his way into position to lead the Republican Party. One example: even though Trump declined to anoint a successor for the seat of retiring Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Pence happily tweeted his support to the candidate of Hensarling's choosing, Bunni Pounds. Trump's aides were "blindsided" by the move, writes the New York Times.

The eager assistance Mr. Pence provided a senior lawmaker reflected the outsized political portfolio that the vice president and his aides have seized for themselves as the 2018 elections approach. While Mr. Trump remains an overpowering personality in Republican politics, he is mostly uninterested in the mechanics of managing a political party. His team of advisers is riven with personal divisions and the White House has not yet crafted a strategy for the midterms. So Mr. Trump’s supremely disciplined running mate has stepped into the void.
Republican officials now see Mr. Pence as seeking to exercise expansive control over a political party ostensibly helmed by Mr. Trump, tending to his own allies and interests even when the president’s instincts lean in another direction. Even as he laces his public remarks with praise for the president, Mr. Pence and his influential chief of staff, Nick Ayers, are unsettling a group of Mr. Trump’s fierce loyalists who fear they are forging a separate power base.

Pence is such a perfect evangelical leader: Claiming his fealty to something in principle, but ultimately just using it to his political advantage in practice.

Word of the internal tensions is getting out beyond the walls of the White House: one prominent lawmaker said the complaints of high-ranking Trump officials were starting to circulate on Capitol Hill. [...]
Tensions also flared last year, after Mr. Ayers and another Pence aide were reported to have made suggestive comments to Republican donors about planning for an unpredictable 2020 election. Most brazenly, Marty Obst, a senior Pence adviser, told a Republican donor that Mr. Pence wanted to be prepared for the next presidential race in case there was an opening.

Yep: watch your back, Trump, old boy. You're just one serious misstep away from Pence pushing you over the cliff, so to speak. Indictment ... impeachment ... whatever, Pence will surely be there for you.

NFLTrends · May 14, 2018

Lets not rush to judgement just based on the thread title....

..... And its the Dailykos

Dafinch · May 15, 2018

NFLTrends said:
Lets not rush to judgement just based on the thread title....

..... And its the Dailykos

Anybody who can ignore Papdop(convicted felon charged with lying to feds about RUSSIA), Flynn(convicted felon charged with lying to feds about RUSSIA, among other things, and was caught colluding with them on the phone), Gates(convicted felon charged with lying to feds about RUSSIA, and for not registering as a foreign agent to RUSSIA, as was his buddy Paulie Numbnuts), over a dozen individuals and companies indicted, all from RUSSIA, is a special kind o stupid. And now we've recently learned that good 'ole Mickey Cohen had a half mill dumped into the freshly created "Keep dem bitches QUIET" LLC, and, you'd probably need 3 guesses to figure out what county his benefactor was from, wouldn't you? Plus, you're a gutless, lard-assed, boulder headed, psychotic, gutless nitwit, since you won't answer why Dump should are about Cohen flipping if he is innocent? You're just too stupid to deal with constantly, and, speaking of which, what happened to your big pledge to ignore my posts? You break your word almost as often as that similarly bloated Orange Ape does.

NFLTrends · Oct 10, 2019

Dafinch said:
Anybody who can ignore Papdop(convicted felon charged with lying to feds about RUSSIA), Flynn(convicted felon charged with lying to feds about RUSSIA, among other things, and was caught colluding with them on the phone), Gates(convicted felon charged with lying to feds about RUSSIA, and for not registering as a foreign agent to RUSSIA, as was his buddy Paulie Numbnuts), over a dozen individuals and companies indicted, all from RUSSIA, is a special kind o stupid. And now we've recently learned that good 'ole Mickey Cohen had a half mill dumped into the freshly created "Keep dem bitches QUIET" LLC, and, you'd probably need 3 guesses to figure out what county his benefactor was from, wouldn't you? Plus, you're a gutless, lard-assed, boulder headed, psychotic, gutless nitwit, since you won't answer why Dump should are about Cohen flipping if he is innocent? You're just too stupid to deal with constantly, and, speaking of which, what happened to your big pledge to ignore my posts? You break your word almost as often as that similarly bloated Orange Ape does.

Im the stupid one?

Yet, Im not the one who has HUNDREDS of fake, bullshit started threads that I have to abandon because they were FALSE/FAKE/BULLSHIT or whatever you want to call them?

Going from what I quoted you saying.... Im the stupid one?

Oh wait, this thread is ABANDONED like the hundreds of others....