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malaise

(268,998 posts)
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 04:00 PM Aug 2018

Mike Pence Once Argued a Lying, Cheating President Should Be Removed from Office -- He Probably

Regrets It Now

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/mike-pence-once-argued-lying-cheating-president-should-be-removed-office-he
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Republicans once argued that a president who lied to the American people and was unfaithful to his wife should be removed from public office — an opinion the GOP seems to have abandoned sometime after President Bill Clinton left the White House and before President Donald Trump moved in.

But evidence of their previous opinions persists — and there's no one for whom that fact is more awkward than Vice President Mike Pence.

As CNN revealed Monday, Pence wrote two op-eds back in the 1990s arguing in favor of removing Clinton from office because of his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Those op-eds were posted on the website for Pence's now-defunct radio program, but CNN reporters found them in the internet archives.

In one of the op-eds, Pence argued that the affair, the lying, and the attempts to cover it all up were particularly troubling. Unfortunately for the now-vice president, Trump himself has been accused of multiple affairs, multiple instances of sexual misconduct and assault, and multiple efforts to cover up these events.

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Mike Pence Once Argued a Lying, Cheating President Should Be Removed from Office -- He Probably (Original Post) malaise Aug 2018 OP
All of these people seem to forget Bettie Aug 2018 #1
It Just Doesn't Get Reported On Faux News LandOfHopeAndDreams Aug 2018 #2
Wasn't Pence talking about Presidents cheating on their wife? braddy Aug 2018 #3
Probably since he had his own money issues malaise Aug 2018 #6
As Con Jr. would say safeinOhio Aug 2018 #4
IOKIYAR maxsolomon Aug 2018 #5
I wish some Democrat would read Pence's words into the Congressional record DFW Aug 2018 #7
Maxine Waters? malaise Aug 2018 #8
She would be perfect DFW Aug 2018 #9
LOL malaise Aug 2018 #10
I'm a southerner DFW Aug 2018 #11

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
5. IOKIYAR
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 04:38 PM
Aug 2018

Pence doesn't give a fuck if he's a hypocrite - it was only for expediency. He never believed it. He probably never even read it.

Regardless, he'll never be in a position to be confronted about it by the press. If, by some mistake of his PR staff he is, he'll just duck it - maybe by pretending his phone isn't working.

"Hello? Hello?" -Donald Trump Jr.

We're past debate in this country. Only Power counts.

DFW

(54,379 posts)
7. I wish some Democrat would read Pence's words into the Congressional record
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 05:51 PM
Aug 2018

Enshrine them for all time so that Republican hypocrisy can be on record for future generations to see and quote.

DFW

(54,379 posts)
9. She would be perfect
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 06:59 PM
Aug 2018

Although I'd take Louie Gohmert or Mitch McConnell as long as it were in there.

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