Vice President Mike Pence owes it to his religion, his "Christianity," to address Tweety Trump's wrong minded statements and decisions, but he does not do so. He is diminishing his religion, his so-called Christianity, as he skates past every opportunity to correct the President for things like promoting violence, telling lies, exaggerating facts and numbers, swearing at political foes, and endangering America's national security, to list just a very, very few of the things Tweety Trump needs to be corrected on.
Mike Pence needs to find his strength and his belief in right vs wrong, and stand up for his God, finding the "better Angels" to advise Tweety to a better course.
"Pence’s remarkable non-denial of a Ukraine quid pro quo"
By Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix October 28, 2019
"Robert Costa and Philip Rucker write in today’s Washington Post about how nervous many Republicans are to defend President Trump’s actions on Ukraine.
But perhaps nobody is as nervous as Vice President Pence.
Pence appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday — a day mostly reserved for the successful operation to take out Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But toward the end of her time with Pence, CBS’s Margaret Brennan pressed him on the still-unfolding Ukraine scandal. And Pence’s answers were painfully telling.
Brennan noted that the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine, William B. Taylor, last week became the fourth U.S. official to confirm a quid pro quo with Ukraine involving investigations that would be politically helpful to Trump. So she asked Pence whether those people, who testified under oath to the quid pro quo, were lying.
Pence had no real answers, much less good ones.
He repeatedly tried to steer the conversation to only what he could personally vouch for — his own conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, along with the rough transcript of Trump’s July 25 call with Zelensky. There was no quid pro quo in either of them, Pence said, but he strained to avoid ruling out a quid pro quo in other communications."
Mike Pence is afraid of Tweety, and, given Tweety Trump's record of bullying, I guess he better be afraid!!
"Mike Pence’s stunning hypocrisy on foreign election interference, in one quote"
2016 Pence thought foreign governments needed to stay out of American politics. His tune suddenly changed.
By Aaron Rupar@atrupar Oct 4, 2019, 1:50pm EDT
"Speaking to reporters in Arizona on Thursday, Pence defended comments President Donald Trump made earlier in the day. Trump solicited China and Ukraine to open investigations he hopes will implicate former vice president and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in (unfounded) corruption allegations — comments that even current Federal Election Commission (FEC) chair Ellen Weintraub has flagged as flouting the law.
Pence, however, said “I think the American people have a right to know if the vice president of the United States or his family profited from his position as vice president during the last administration. ... The president made it very clear that he believes other nations around the world should look into it as well.”"
What?! Come on man!
The absurdity of this comment on its face is incredible! The President has employed his family in the White House, and the President is making huge profits thru his son's work and his daughter's work using he Trump name!
VP PENCE IS SO BOLD-FACED HYPOCRITICAL, AND DISINGENUOUS ABOUT USING THE OFFICE OF VP FOR PROFIT WHILE TRUMP IS THE PREZ AS TO BE LAUGHABLE!
"In fairness, Pence isn’t the only Republican whose views about foreign interference have conveniently evolved to fit the needs of whatever Trump requires to fend off the latest scandal. As the Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell noted, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has undergone a similar transformation."
OK, so Republicans, as a group, are immensely tribal, hypocritical, contradictory, inconsistent, and disingenuous in giving unwavering support to the man, Tweety Trump, over the country! Those who support Trump no matter what are traitors to our Democracy!
"[Trump text messages] The incredibly damning Ukraine texts from State Department officials, explained"
The newly released texts show a quid pro quo offer between Trump and Ukraine.
By Andrew Prokop andrew@vox.com Oct 4, 2019, 10:25am EDT
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/4/20898215/trump-text-messages-ukraine-impeachment
Read the article as it gives you each and every text to show Tweety Trump's folly, a President essentially daring Congress and the American people to challenge him as he clearly, unequivocally abuses the power of the United States Presidency.
"Trump’s “no quid pro quo” line is no longer tenable after these texts. They make it unmistakably clear what the quid pro quo was. At first, Ukraine agrees to the investigations in exchange for Trump agreeing to host a Zelensky White House visit.
Details are still murky, however, about the holdup in military aid and how it played into this pressure campaign. Taylor’s texts raising concerns about the matter are certainly suggestive — as is Sondland’s hesitancy to discuss it by text — but we’re still missing further facts and evidence about what happened here. Testimony from Taylor could, theoretically, help with that.
More broadly, Volker and Sondland may well have believed they were in a tough position. It’s entirely possible their priority really was helping improve relations between Trump and Ukraine, and given Trump’s fixation on the investigations, they may have felt they had no other choice other than to push Ukraine on the topic. Overall, though, the texts tell the story of how top State Department diplomats were enlisted to serve Trump’s personal and political needs."
"Karen and Mike Pence's astonishing moral hypocrisy"
By Clay Cane Updated 7:13 PM ET, Sun January 20, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/opinions/karen-pence-evangelical-hypocrisy-clay-cane/index.html
"CNN)Karen Pence, the wife of America's vice president, Mike Pence will be teaching art at a Christian school in Virginia that bans LGBTQ children and requires employees to declare their religious beliefs. Like a real-life setting for "The Handmaid's Tale," Immanuel Christian School insists applicants initial a pledge to "live a personal life of moral purity."
Listen to what else the pledge says: "I understand that the term 'marriage' has only one meaning; the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive covenant union as delineated in Scripture." It asserts that God intended sexual acts only between "a man and a woman who are married to each other." It identifies "moral misconduct" that would disqualify employees as premarital sex, cohabitation, extramarital sex, homosexual or lesbian sexual activity, polygamy, transgender identity, any other violation of the unique roles of male and female."
This language is disgusting and insults millions of taxpaying American citizens, many who have served their country. That it is acceptable to the wife of the man who is a heartbeat away from the presidency should horrify and alarm all Americans."
If I believed VP Mike Pence endorsed separation of church and state, I would not care about these rather confused and arrogant religious beliefs. I would disagree with what I see as a sick mentality, and move on. I would say their version of "Christianity" is not true Christianity, no the Golden Rule, not what Jesus would do or say, and move on.
BUT the VP is pushing his values like they are the one true set of values, and THT is repugnant to the Constitution and a free society. IN THE CONSTITUION, Americans are allowed to practice whatever version of religion the choose, not the selected version of VP Pence. No one crowned Pence King or God yet that I know of.
"Silent accomplice or quiet plotter: what does Mike Pence really want?"
Some say the vice-president, who has harboured White House ambitions since he was 16, is motivated by a desire for power
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/04/mike-pence-what-does-he-want
https://newrepublic.com/article/150512/mike-pence-really-hypocrite
"Is Mike Pence Really a Hypocrite?"
The vice president's decades-old argument for impeaching an immoral president is more nuanced than it seems.
By Matt Ford August 7, 2018
https://newrepublic.com/article/150512/mike-pence-really-hypocrite
"It’s not every day that you read the vice president’s case for impeaching a president. On Tuesday, CNN resurfaced two columns written by Mike Pence in the 1990s in favor of the push to impeach Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair. "
So how nuanced can this be as Pense serves a President who has cheated on three wives. Pence said Clinton lied and committed perjury. Then he added morality. Does cheating on your three wives among a few more moral failings count for Tweety Trump's "moral wrongs . . . "
" . . . Pence also argued that presidents should be held to higher moral standards than average citizens, and that Clinton should also be impeached because had committed moral wrongs while in office."
I read to the end of the article and find a tortured effort to distinguish between private and public affairs, and more, none of which, in my view, makes Pence less of a hypocrite. I leave the author of this article to his view, and I still have my view - Pence IS a hypocrite notwithstanding your twisted logic.