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Former Vice President Mike Pence, who had to be evacuated four years ago Monday as rioters stormed the Capitol, welcomed “the return of order and civility” as Congress moved to certify President-elect Trump’s 2024 victory. “The peaceful transfer of power is the hallmark of our democracy and today, members of both parties in the House and Senate along with the vice president certified the election of our new president and vice president without controversy or objection,” Pence posted on the social platform X. “I also commend the members of the House, Senate and the Vice President who did their duty...

Establishmentarians struggling with the likelihood of having little to no representation in the incoming administration have spent weeks attacking several of President-elect Donald Trump's picks to helm federal agencies of consequence. Although Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick to run the Pentagon, has taken an inordinate amount of abuse, former National Security Council official Kash Patel has similarly become a top target for champions of the status quo, including Olivia Troye, a middling intelligence official in the George W. Bush administration who later served as an adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence. In conversation with identitarian MSNBC host Joy Reid this...

Donald Trump might never have become president without them. And his quest to regain the presidency might depend on what they do now to stop him. With back-to-back announcements this week, former Vice President Mike Pence and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie joined a swelling roster of Republicans challenging Trump for the 2024 nomination. They are embracing disparate but perhaps equally impactful strategies to defeat the man they were once so loyal to. Pence is seeking a more delicate way around Trump, paired with an effort to reclaim core tenets of the GOP, while Christie charts a path he...

NEW: Statement from Founder @Mike_Pence on the nomination of RFK Jr. to serve as Secretary of HHS.

Newly-elected NRSC Chair Tim Scott is hiring Stephen DeMaura, a huge Trump hater & Mike Pence's 2024 campaign manager, to be the Senatorial Committee's Executive Director. DeMaura will have massive control over which Senate candidates to fund. Scott promised to help President Trump fulfill his promises, and only a day after getting voted to lead the GOP Senate's bank account, he's hiring a never-Trumper who will only help Neocon establishment candidates win. WHAT IS GOING ON? @SenatorTimScott . This is the most disgusting 180° in the history of 180°s. Why pick a backstabber to direct Senate funding?

Mike Pence doesn’t approve of Donald Trump’s supposed plan to pardon Jan. 6 rioters and is “literally praying” that both the president-elect and his VP pick JD Vance honor their oaths when they take office. “I don’t think the president should pardon anyone who assaulted a police officer at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6,” the former vice president said at The Dispatch’s Summit 2024, according to a tweet shared by the outlet on Tuesday. “Karen and I are literally praying that President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance will stand on the commitments that they will make when they...

Accusations from a former Trump chief of staff meant to derail his presidential campaign were defused by a vehement denial from the former chief of staff to Mike Pence. Retired Marine General John Kelly said that former President Donald Trump had praised Adolf Hitler's military and wished that he had the same. He also said Trump met the definition of a fascist and would govern as a dictator if elected a second time. The media ran wild with the claims in an attempt to damage the Trump presidential campaign. "He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government," Kelly said. But...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge overseeing the election interference case against Donald Trump directed prosecutors Wednesday to search for and provide to the former president’s lawyers any Justice Department information related to a separate investigation into Mike Pence’s handling of classified documents. Trump’s lawyers had argued that that information could be relevant to their defense o the extent it shows that Pence, Trump’s vice president, had “an incentive to curry favor with authorities” and implicate Trump while facing his own investigation into the retention of classified documents in his Indiana home.... U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered Smith’s team...

Most of us have known all along that the January 6th Insurrection narrative was a hoax - albeit a very effective one - that was perpetrated by the Left. But there’s someone else whose actions on that fateful day have escaped the close scrutiny they deserve. A man whose seemingly perfectly-timed actions may have played a greater role in the events of that day than any other single individual.We’re talking, of course, about the actions of Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence. While many know that Pence later played down allegations of voter fraud and certified Biden’s Presidency, few are...

BREAKING: Kash Patel just sent a legal notice to Mike Pence's advisor, Olivia Troye, to immediately retract the defamatory statements she made about him or face massive legal action.On Joyles Reid's segment, Troye said, "Kash Patel is a delusional liar. And he would lie about making things up on operations. I think Mark Esper has talked about that as well. Where he put the lives of Navy SEALs at risk in an operation when it came to Nigeria." In their letter, Patel's lawyers said, "Litigation will be filed against you if you fail to publicly retract defamatory statements you made...

Mike Pence brags in his book how he pushed Trump into lockdowns and then pushed Birx to keep states locked down as long as possible. This man is not what he seems. ... Pence and his staff were the leaks from the White House during Trumps first term. ... He’s a fraud and a traitor.

Former vice president Mike Pence, who became the target of a violent mob of Donald Trump supporters on January 6, 2021, said on Tuesday he does not think the president-elect should pardon rioters and prays that Trump maintains his commitment to the Constitution.

Former President Mike Pence is urging Senate Republicans to block Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination as the Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary. President-elect Donald Trump, Pence's former running mate, announced Kennedy's nomination on Thursday, a decision that has raised concerns from public health experts. Kennedy, a former 2024 presidential candidate who went on to back Trump's campaign, has been incredibly critical of vaccinations, including suggesting that childhood vaccines are linked to autism diagnosis. Pence, however, took a different issue with Kennedy's appointment, saying in a statement Friday that making Kennedy the HHS secretary would be "an abrupt departure from...

President-elect Donald Trump's recently announced pick for "border czar," Tom Homan, has an "extreme and ineffective" track record, according to the former homeland security adviser to Mike Pence. Trump wrote on Truth Social late Sunday that he was "pleased to announce" that Homan, his former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director, "will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation's Borders." Trump said Homan "will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin," in addition to overseeing the northern and southern borders and "all Maritime, and Aviation Security." On...

Dick Cheney did it. Arnold Schwarzenegger did it. Adam Kinzinger did it, of course. So did Jeff Flake. Mike Pence walked right up to the edge but ultimately declined to take the plunge, but even George W. Bush’s daughter, Barbara Pierce Bush, and Dick Cheney’s notorious daughter Liz (that is, former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Jan. 6) jumped right in. And now Liz Cheney is calling upon the biggest prize of all, former President George W. Bush, to join the party for the uniparty and endorse Kamala Harris for president. appropriate forum for an establishment mouthpiece to issue a call to...

“ Thirteen former Trump administration officials released an open letter on Friday amplifying warnings from John F. Kelly, Donald J. Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff, that the former president would rule like a dictator if he returned to office.” ……………. “The letter, organized on Wednesday after Mr. Kelly’s comments were published in The Times on Tuesday, was signed by several outspoken Harris supporters, including two who gave speeches at the Democratic National Convention: Stephanie Grisham, a former Trump White House press secretary, and Olivia Troye, who was an adviser to Mr. Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence. Other signers...

Former Vice President Mike Pence is launching a $3 million ad blitz in swing states to slam economic proposals from Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — including her multitrillion-dollar tax hike. Advancing American Freedom, a nonprofit conservative advocacy group founded by Pence, will run the digital ads in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Montana. His group also will distribute a “messaging memo” to Republican candidates competing in those states suggesting lines of political attack. The ad campaign will highlight the economic successes of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by former President Donald Trump — and Harris’ plans...

Mike Pence stuck his head up this week to take a whack at Trumpism, urging Republicans to reject “protectionist tariffs” and “isolationism” while “unashamedly” recommitting to anti-abortion positions.It’s a sign of what he’s up to behind the scenes as well. (snip) The former vice president’s Wall Street Journal op-ed taking veiled shots at Trump’s policy priorities is just a hint of what Pence is thinking as he waits for the 2024 election to play out. But the big question for Pence is: Is there still a place for him in today’s GOP?The answer isn’t even clear to his fans: Pence...

Former Vice President Mike Pence made his professor debut this week at Grove City College. In April, the college announced that Pence would be a distinguished visiting fellow for the college’s new Center for Faith and Public Life, teaching a political science class alongside College President Paul McNulty. “I just have immense respect for the mission of Grove City College,” Pence said in a news release. “The opportunity to teach several courses with young men and women who I know are going to be Christian leaders in this country in the years ahead is a great privilege.” On Thursday, Pence...

The interview Anthony Scaramucci gave to the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza seem to be the gift that keeps on giving. In newly released quotes from the interview, Scaramucci suggests that Mike Pence's new chief of staff was hired to protect the Vice President from political chaos in the Trump Administration. "Why is Nick there, bro," Scaramucci asked Lizza.