Ever since the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and the Ukraine scandal began, the White House has resolutely refused to cooperate, ordering members of the administration not to testify, even if they’re under subpoena. Despite that instruction, many have already defied that advice and given sworn depositions. There was some question whether or […]
There’s an old expression we all probably heard when we growing up, and it certainly applies to Vice President Mike Pence: “If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.” For three years, Pence has been ever the dutiful toady for his boss, Donald Trump. No matter what disgusting things the president did […]
During his 17-month tenure as national security adviser to Donald Trump, John Bolton probably saw things he couldn’t believe, including Trump’s insistence that military aid to Ukraine be withheld until he could personally speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and ask for help digging up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden. According to the […]
If perhaps you were wondering why Donald Trump keeps putting Mike Pence in harm’s way politically, it’s because he’s getting pressure from Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to boot Pence from the 2020 ticket and replace him with someone who brings more to the game. According to journalist Tony LoBianco, who has written the definitive […]
Vice President Mike Pence just found out the hard way that Donald Trump has absolutely no loyalty to anyone, and the result could wind up getting Pence charged with crimes and booted from the 2020 ticket. Last week when Pence stayed at Trump’s golf resort in Ireland, all hell broke loose because it appeared that […]
Next week, the House Judiciary Committee will take its first formal vote on defining the scope of the impeachment investigation against President Donald Trump, according to Politico: “The panel could vote as early as Wednesday on a resolution to spell out the parameters of its investigation. The precise language is still being hammered out inside […]
Not long ago, out of nowhere, there was suddenly a rumor going around Washington that President Trump was considering dropping Mike Pence as his running mate in 2020 and replacing him with former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. It started when Andrew Stein, the former president of the New York City Council wrote in the Wall […]
Since they cannot possibly blame their savior, President Donald Trump, many right-wingers inside the Republican Party are now saying that Vice President Mike Pence may have caused the entire Mueller probe which looked into connections between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. As Christian Vanderbrouk notes in The Bulwark, Pence has a lot to answer […]
Now that we have a version of the report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller in hand, we know that President Donald Trump repeatedly obstructed justice and was only spared from being indicted because he was shielded by a Justice Department directive saying a sitting president cannot face indictment. The Washington Post laid out the obstruction […]
The U.S. Constitution clearly states that if the president is removed from office for whatever reason (death, being incapacitated, impeachment) the vice president becomes the American head of state. But what if both the president and vice president are booted from office? In that case, the speaker of the House assumes the office of the […]