Trumps top sycophant
By Jennifer Rubin
August 21 at 10:15 AM
Vice President Pence is in an unusual position. He must try to remain a confidante of the president, but he cannot for his own sake — and, if he might have to assume the presidency, for the sake of the country — be seen as adopting President Trump’s noxious views on race, misleading the American people on any issue or generally appearing as a disingenuous sycophant. Unfortunately, he regularly fails to steer clear of the latter.
At times his gushing over Trump is downright embarrassing. Pence’s unctuous comments tend to mystify listeners rather than convince them, as when he defended Trump’s attacks on his own attorney general ... Likewise when Pence on a foreign trip blatantly misstates Trump’s words, Pence comes off as dishonest and spineless ...
His speeches ladle on the praise to such an extent one wonders if he’s serious .. or is so insecure that he feels it necessary to genuflect before the delusional leader for fear of losing favor. "“It is just the greatest privilege of my life is to serve as the — as vice president to the President who’s keeping his word to the American people and assembling a team that’s bringing real change, real prosperity, real strength back to our nation,"he said at the cringe-worthy Cabinet meeting in which everyone was supposed to say something nice about the president ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/08/21/pences-cardinal-error-sounding-like-trumps-top-sycophant/?utm_term=.c72e89399c34
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