Tag Archives: Marc Short

Aide On Pence Backing Trump: Don’t Hold Your Breath

The Hill reports: Marc Short, once the chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence, said Thursday that Pence isn’t likely to endorse President Trump for the 2024 election. “I don’t think President Trump should be holding his breath for that,” Short said of an endorsement, in an appearance on The Hill on NewsNation. “I certainly would not anticipate …

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Pence Advisor: Gaetz Is In DC For The Teenage Interns

“Matt Gaetz, to say he came as a fiscal crusader, it’s more likely he came here for the teenage interns on Capitol Hill, to be honest. Look, he’s voted for continuing resolutions. He’s voted for omnibus bills. He voted for trillions of dollars in Covid spending. Even this year, he put forward an earmark, and yet he’s presented himself as, …

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Pence Advisor: Mark Meadows Was A J6 “Ringleader”

“I don’t think any of us relish witnessing what’s happening with these people that we worked with. I think it’s fair to say that, you know, Mark was a ringleader of much of the events that happened around January 6th. He was somebody who, the president sought to find additional attorneys who gave advice different than the White House counsel, …

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Top Pence Aide Condemns Trump’s “Unseemly” Pardons

Fox News reports: Marc Short, who served as chief of staff for former Vice President Mike Pence, condemned the pardons former President Donald Trump handed down in the final hours of his administration. Short made the comments during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” telling host Shannon Bream that the pardons were among the worst parts of the end of …

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Former Pence Aide Blasts Trump For Praising Rioters: “We Were Just Inches Away From A Massacre” [Video]

“I was by the vice president’s side when the United States Secret Service three times asked him to evacuate the Capitol, and as you know, the vice president refused to leave because he said that that’s not the image he wanted the world to see. The hallmark of democracy, where a vice president would have to flee that setting. “What …

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Trump Loses Bid To Block Pence Aide From Testifying

The Washington Post reports: A former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence returned before a grand jury Thursday to testify in a criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election after federal courts overruled President Donald Trump’s objections to the testimony, according to people familiar with the matter. In a sealed decision that could clear the way for …

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Former Pence Aide Roasts Trump’s “Lying” Lawyers

“It’s certainly baffling as to why a lot of those documents are at Mar-a-Lago. It doesn’t seem like it’s the most secure environment. “And I think there’s also a question about why Trump’s lawyers, apparently, were so misleading — potentially lying in the affidavit saying they’d returned all the information. “I think there’s a difference between playing a lawyer on …

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Marc Short: Rioters Would Have Been “Massacred” If They’d Gotten Close To Mike Pence That Day [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: Former VP Chief of Staff Marc Short said if rioters had gotten any closer to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6 “there would have been a massacre that day in the Capitol.” Short was interviewed Monday night by ABC News’ Linsey Davis just days after he testified to a grand jury in the investigation into the attack …

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Ex-Pence Chief Of Staff Testifies Before Fed Grand Jury

ABC News reports: The former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence appeared last week before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Marc Short was caught by an ABC News camera departing D.C. District Court on Friday alongside his attorney, Emmet Flood. Short appeared …

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Former Top Pence Aide Joins Kemp Reelection Team

The Hill reports: Marc Short, an ex-top aide to former Vice President Mike Pence, is joining Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s reelection campaign as the Republican incumbent fights off a primary challenge from former Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), who is backed by former President Trump. The development comes just weeks before the Georgia gubernatorial primaries, which are scheduled for May 24. …

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Pence’s Former Chief Of Staff Testifies Before Riot Panel

CNN reports: Marc Short, former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, quietly testified before the House select committee investigating January 6 last week in response to a subpoena, sources tell CNN, in the most significant sign to date that Pence’s team is cooperating with the probe. Short, who was with Pence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and …

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Axios: Pence Team Very Cooperative With Riot Panel

Axios reports: People in and around former Vice President Mike Pence’s office have been particularly cooperative as the Jan. 6 select committee focuses on what former President Trump was doing during the more than three hours the Capitol was under attack. Both Pence’s former chief of staff Marc Short [photo], and former press secretary Alyssa Farah, who later served as …

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Top Pence Aide To Cooperate With Riot Committee

CNN reports: Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, is cooperating with the January 6 committee, a significant development that will give investigators insight from one of the highest-ranking Trump officials, according to three sources with knowledge of the committee’s activities. CNN is also reporting for the first time that the committee subpoenaed Short a …

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REVENGE: Trump Bans Pence’s Chief Of Staff From WH

Mediaite reports: Marc Short, the chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, said that President Donald Trump banned him from the White House grounds on Wednesday. Short said the ban was retaliation for advising the vice president, who announced on Wednesday that he was not empowered by the Constitution to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Pence announced …

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Multiple Aides To Mike Pence Have Tested COVID+

The New York Times reports: Several members of Vice President Mike Pence’s inner circle, including at least four members of his staff, have tested positive for the coronavirus in the past few days, people briefed on the matter said, raising new questions about the safety protocols at the White House, where masks are not routinely worn. Devin O’Malley, a spokesman …

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Pence Chief Of Staff Has Not Divested From Companies Affected By COVID Pandemic, Keeps Meeting With Them

From the government watchdog group CREW: New evidence has emerged that suggests Vice President Pence’s Chief of Staff Marc Short appears to have participated in three additional meetings with companies whose stock he held, which could violate criminal conflict of interest law, according to a letter sent today to the FBI by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). …

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Pence Staffer Confronted On Trump’s Ukraine Claims

Mediaite reports: Fox News’ Chris Wallace confronted Mike Pence chief of staff Marc Short this morning and asked him if President Donald Trump really still thinks that Ukraine election interference is something that should be looked into. “I know there were separation of power issues there,” Wallace said. “But does President Trump still believe that it was Ukraine, not Russia, …

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Top Pence Aide Apologizes For Old Column Attacking The “Perverted Lifestyles” Of People With HIV/AIDS

The Daily Beast reports: Vice President Mike Pence’s incoming chief of staff Marc Short disparaged people living with HIV and AIDS and claimed that the transmission of the disease was largely the result of “repugnant” homosexual intercourse in an early ’90s column for his college newspaper. Writing in a conservative publication at Washington & Lee University, Short criticized what he …

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Senior WH Aide Marc Short To Quit On July 20th

Rachel’s wall keeps growing and growing: President Donald Trump’s legislative affairs director is heading for the exits just as the White House gears up for a major Supreme Court nomination battle and approaches a daunting midterm election landscape. Marc Short, one of the administration’s longest-serving senior aides and a frequent spokesperson for the president on television, is planning to depart …

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Senior White House Staffer Marc Short Hits The Exit

Politico reports: White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told his colleagues Friday that he’s resigning, according to current and former administration officials. He is expected to leave the White House in mid-July, but it was unclear whether he has accepted a new position. Short, the top White House liaison to Capitol Hill, did not respond to several requests for …

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