Indications Pence is more deliberative operator than naive chump; widens distance between self & T.
Don’t Shed A Tear For Mike Pence, Folks
He knew what he was signing up for.
By Jason Linkins
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There are two possibilities, it seems. Either the performatively pious Pence, after fully assaying Trump’s character, determined that he could be fully on board as one of the reality-television mogul’s enablers, or he was too intellectually dense to understand the obviously fraught situation in which he’d be participating. Dupe or opportunist: Those are your two choices.
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Like I said, Pence’s attempts to put some distance between himself and Trump aren’t being made to look particularly obvious. For example, he’s very pointedly letting it be known that he does not hold Trump responsible for not keeping him up to speed on L’Affaire Flynn. And CNN’s Elizabeth Landers follows this week’s earlier news with a report on Friday in which more sources with familiarity of Pence’s thinking paint a different picture ― one in which Pence is a steadfast member of the team, it’s just that all this drama is just wearing him out, man.
After a fast and furious news cycle at the White House this week, the last few days may have worn on Vice President Mike Pence.
Though Pence will continue to be a “loyal soldier” because he is a “relentlessly positive guy, he “looks tired,” a senior administration adviser observed on Thursday, outlining the vice president’s schedule and trying to explain his relative absence from the public eye.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-trump_us_591f4713e4b034684b0c51a1?jha&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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