Are you ready? But Christie was left hanging for the next three days. He suspected that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner had intervened and turned Trump against him, because years earlier, as a U. Trump began leaning toward Pence. Pence was made the most palatable choice by those around him. They both knew what it was about. He took out student loans for the kids.
He was rolling the dice. But that night, as CNN reported, Trump called his aides to see if he could back out of his decision. He looks like a Vice-President. Several days later, at the Republican National Convention, Newt Gingrich, who had also been passed over for the Vice-Presidency, found himself backstage next to Trump while Pence was giving his acceptance speech. They urged Trump to pray. Pence exceeded expectations in the Vice-Presidential debate, and traversed the Midwest tirelessly.
He answered those questions. The Kochs continued to withhold financial support from Trump, but Short, the former Koch operative, became a top adviser to Pence on the campaign. The Koch network gained even further sway after Trump won the Presidency. Three days after the election, Trump pushed aside Christie, who had been overseeing his transition team, and put Pence in charge, with Short as a top deputy. He was also superstitious, and during his campaign he had deflected discussions about post-election staffing, fearing that it would bring bad luck.
There was strong think-tank participation from Heritage and others who saw the opportunity. Trump began to appoint an extraordinary number of officials with ties to the Kochs and to Pence, especially in positions that affected Koch Industries financially, such as those dealing with regulatory, environmental, and fiscal policy.
Short, who a few months earlier had tried to enlist the Kochs to stop Trump, joined the White House as its director of legislative affairs. Scott Pruitt, the militantly anti-regulatory attorney general of Oklahoma, who had been heavily supported by the Kochs, was appointed director of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Pruitt, in turn, placed Patrick Traylor, a lawyer for Koch Industries and other fossil-fuel companies, in charge of the E. The new director of the C. Pence reportedly consulted with Charles Koch before hiring his speechwriter, Stephen Ford, who previously worked at Freedom Partners.
Americans for Prosperity recently announced plans to spend four and a half million dollars on ads that will press three Democratic senators in red states to support the tax cuts. On September 25th, Trump dined at the White House with Tim Phillips, the head of Americans for Prosperity, along with Short and a handful of other conservative activists. After keeping a careful distance from one another during the campaign, Pence and the Kochs reunited openly for the first time on October 13th, when Pence attended a summit of Koch donors in New York.
Anything that will help the middle-class people? Forget it. Before Pence took over the transition team, Christie had warned Trump not to give a high-level job to the retired general Michael Flynn, whose financial ties to foreign interests triggered the investigation.
Christie considered him too risky. On November 11, , Christie was chairing a transition meeting, when, according to four sources, Flynn walked in with an ally, General Keith Kellogg.
Christie tried to reclaim control of the meeting, but Ivanka took over. Flynn expressed interest in becoming Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense. Eric Trump, who was also on the team, asked Flynn if he had been out of uniform long enough to head the Pentagon.
A few hours later, Christie was deposed. Kushner, he felt, had humiliated him a second time. Bannon, who was given the job of dismissing him, admitted to Christie that Kushner had been against him all along, for personal reasons. But Cummings produced an e-mail from the transition staff acknowledging his letter and promising to review it carefully. It undoubtedly would have cost Pence to take a political stand against the worst instincts of Trump and his family.
There are real issues, and a failure to do something he was legally, ethically, and politically responsible for. Pence soon delivered a series of misleading statements about Flynn. On January 15th, as questions about Russian manipulation of the election were mounting, Pence went on CBS and assured the public that, during the transition, Flynn had not discussed the topic of sanctions with the Russian Ambassador. But then the Washington Post reported that the Justice Department had wiretaps of Flynn doing just that.
The Justice Department had informed the White House counsel about this well before Pence made his statement. On February 13th, Trump fired Flynn, ostensibly for deceiving Pence, who looked like either a liar or a chump. Three months later, Trump fired James Comey, the F. Pence has hired an outside lawyer, Richard Cullen, and has further strengthened his political armor by hiring Nick Ayers as his chief of staff. Unlike most Vice-Presidents, Pence has been given no particular portfolio of issues or projects.
White House officials had miscalculated, believing that McCain was on their side. I can remember. The legal scholar had said that, if the Supreme Court did so, many states would likely legalize abortion on their own.
It is a sin. Many Americans have debated whether the country would be better off with Pence as President. Newt Gingrich predicts that Pence will probably get a chance to do so. An earlier version of this article misstated the date, in October, , when Pence attended a summit of Koch donors.
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Since President Donald Trump took office, key government positions remain unfilled, including a new director for the CDC. Although a bipartisan congressional spending deal reached on April 30 blocked many of those cuts, the signals Trump has sent are worrying. The consequences of a major pandemic would be world-changing. The flu pandemic killed 50 million to million people—at the top end, more than the combined total casualties of World Wars I and II—and for a slew of reasons, humans are arguably more vulnerable today than they were years ago.
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Some even credit Kimmel for saving the ACA—or at least amplifying the grassroots efforts to protect it.
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