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Politico reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence tore into Donald Trump and pointed to isolationism in the Republican Party as complicit in the sweeping Hamas attack on Israel, decrying American “retreat on the world stage.” In a scathing rebuke of isolationism in the Republican Party, Pence faulted “voices of appeasement like Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis that I …

ABC News reports: Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson claims that former President Donald Trump said the word “hang” as he was watching rioters chant “hang Mike Pence” as the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection unfolded on a TV in the dining room off the Oval Office. “I take a few steps back as Mark takes my place in the …

“On day one, I’ll direct the Department of Defense to to stop using taxpayer dollars to undermine pro-life laws in states around the country. Sen Tommy Tuberville is right and the Pentagon is wrong. And on the cause of life I promise you, if I have the privilege of being your president, I’ll be a champion for the unborn. “I’m …

News Nation host Leland Vittert: “One of the things that has been said about how you conduct your personal life is you will not eat alone or meet alone with a woman. One of the hallmarks of your presidency, and one of the things that was reported on a lot, was your private lunches one-on-one with Donald Trump. How would …

Melissa McCollister: Good evening, vice president. I am an LGBTQ member and I have trans individuals in my family. Recent anti-LGBTQ bills have been signed into law all around this United States, including here in Iowa. So far, in 2023, 15 transgender individuals and gender nonconforming people have been murdered. The vast majority of those people have been Black and …

Fox News reports: Former Vice President Pence said there is an “ethical cloud” hanging over the Biden family and President Biden’s administration, telling Fox News Digital he would support an impeachment inquiry led by House Republicans. “There are so many questions about Joe Biden’s involvement and connection to his son’s businesses when he was vice president of the United States,” …

“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, …

Axios reports: “Well first off, the handling of classified materials is enormously serious in the life of the nation, but in my case, I was never made aware of any broad-based effort to declassify documents,” Mike Pence told ABC News’ Jon Karl during an interview on “This Week”. “There is a process that the White House goes through to declassify …

NBC News reports: “Donald Trump had said this week that he never asked you to disregard the Constitution and that he never said that you were too honest. Either of those things true?” NBC News host Chuck Todd asked during a Meet the Press interview on Sunday. “Well, look, you could check his tweets,” Pence replied. “I mean, the president …

The Washington Examiner reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence warned his opponents on Friday that he would debate the Republican Party’s presidential front-runners on the topic of abortion, which he believes should be banned nationally after 15 weeks. Pence, who has called himself “unapologetically pro-life,” said he would call out Trump and DeSantis on their stances toward abortion during the …

Mediaite reports: “Trump 2024!” shouted one man in a “Make America Great Again” hat and “Team Trump” shirt as Pence could be seen walking through the fairground with his entourage. Another woman dressed similarly then joined in with the heckles, shouting “MAGA!” and “Pence is a traitor!” She continued, “Anybody that says he has a higher power, uses those words, …

The Hill reports: Republican presidential candidates Mike Pence and Vivek Ramaswamy exchanged barbs after the former vice president said he was “deeply offended” by Ramaswamy’s comments that he does not believe the 9/11 Commission. Pence, in an interview with the Union Leader in New Hampshire, addressed Ramaswamy’s comments that the conservative entrepreneur made to Blaze TV when he was asked …

The New York Times reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday crossed the threshold of 40,000 unique donors required to take part in the first Republican presidential primary debate, his campaign said. Mr. Pence had already met a polling threshold required by the Republican National Committee, his team has said. Hitting both benchmarks means that Mr. Pence is the …

Axios reports: Mike Pence told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that Trump’s lawyers said on Jan. 5, 2021, the day before the U.S. Capitol riot: “We want you to reject votes outright.'” “They were asking me to overturn the election. I had no right to overturn the election,” added Pence, who is challenging front-runner Trump for the 2024 Republican …

Reuters reports: Former Republican Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday did not rule out being a prosecution witness if his ex-boss Donald Trump goes to trial on charges of orchestrating a criminal conspiracy to try to reverse his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. Asked on Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan if he would be a …

Mediaite reports: Pissed-off supporters of ex-President Donald Trump heckled ex-VP Mike Pence to his face as he greeted supporters in the parking lot of his event in New Hampshire. The indictment also seems to have awakened something in Pence, who suddenly leaned very hard into ripping Trump over his effort to pressure Pence into changing the result of the electoral …

Politico reports: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy would not say if he would have certified the election results like former Vice President Mike Pence did on Jan. 6, 2021, sidestepping repeated questions on Thursday. “I would have never let it get to that point,” Ramaswamy said in response to POLITICO’s questions. “I would have never put myself — or been …

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account: I feel badly for Mike Pence, who is attracting no crowds, enthusiasm, or loyalty from people who, as a member of the Trump Administration, should be loving him. He didn’t fight against Election Fraud, which we will now be easily able to prove based on the most recent Fake Indictment & information …

“For my part, I want people to know that I had no right to overturn the election and that what the president maintained that day, and frankly has said over and over again over the last two and a half years, is completely false. And it’s contrary to what our Constitution and the laws of this country provide. You know, …

Rolling Stone reports: Trump’s tortured relationship with the truth is highlighted in an exchange he allegedly had with Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 1, 2021. Trump, the indictment says, called Pence and “berated him” because Pence opposed efforts to claim that he alone had the power, in his ceremonial role presiding over the counting of the votes of the …