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 Trump had ordered Pence and his entourage to stay at the golf club so the Donald could pocket some tidy change courtesy of the American taxpayers.

But now Trump is blaming Pence for the decision, in essence putting his vice president in harm’s way in a legal sense. And of course Trump did so via Twitter:

I had nothing to do with the decision of our great @VP Mike Pence to stay overnight at one of the Trump owned resorts in Doonbeg, Ireland. Mike’s family has lived in Doonbeg for many years, and he thought that during his very busy European visit, he would stop and see his family!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 9, 2019

However, Pence’s spokesperson Marc Short said that Trump had suggested Pence stay at his golf club in Ireland:

“I don’t think it was a request, like a command ​… I think that it was a suggestion.”

Trump also weighed in on the growing scandal regarding Air Force planes that refueled at an airport which serves his Scottish golf resort at Turnberry, and once again he tried to shift the blame from himself even though he’s the one that benefits if that airport remains open:

I know nothing about an Air Force plane landing at an airport (which I do not own and have nothing to do with) near Turnberry Resort (which I do own) in Scotland, and filling up with fuel, with the crew staying overnight at Turnberry (they have good taste!). NOTHING TO DO WITH ME

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 9, 2019

As we’ve come to realize in the three years Donald Trump has been president, you can automatically assume that his all caps denial that it has “nothing to do” with him means it has everything to do with him and was probably all his idea.

But the larger issue is how Trump deliberately passed the buck directly at Pence when it comes to the Doonbeg golf club scandal, which two House committees have already said will be investigated.

Trump is already facing an impeachment inquiry from the House Judiciary Committee, and it looks like he’s willing to destroy Pence if that’s what it takes to divert attention from his own crimes.

Donald Trump demands absolute loyalty from everyone who works for him. But as the two tweets above prove, everyone is expendable when it comes to Trump. What he just did to Pence suggests his family and friends should be worried, too. He’s probably going to throw them under the bus with Mike Pence in the near future if that’s what it takes to save his own hide.