NYT OPINION: Mike Pence Is Having a Moment He Doesn’t Deserve
By Carlos Lozada
Section: Opinion
Source: New York Times
Published Date: November 29, 2022 at 02:00AM
His memoir, “So Help Me God,” is very illuminating, though not always in the way the former vice president wants it to be.
'Why wouldn’t Trump — a man Pence invariably calls 'my president' and 'my friend' — assume that his vice president would help steal the election? Pence had agreed to so much else,' CarlosNYT writes.
His memoir, “ So Help Me God ,” is very illuminating, though not always in the way the former vice president wants it to be. , but don’t buy the redemption tale just yet. Pence was indeed in the White House to serve, but he served the president’s needs more than those of the nation. In “So Help Me God,” Pence rarely contradicts the president, even in private, until the days immediately preceding Jan. 6. He rarely attempts to talk Trump out of his worst decisions or positions. He rarely counters Trump’s lies with the truth.
wouldn’t claim No, it’s not when the president fired F.B.I. director James Comey in May of 2017, an action Trump took not for self-serving reasons, he assured Pence, but because it was “the right thing to do for the country.” (Apparently Pence is so persuaded by this argument that he quotes it twice.) It’s not when Trump praised the “very fine people” on both sides of the Charlottesville tragedy in August 2017. (Any notion of a false equivalence between neo-Nazis and those opposing them, Pence explains, was an unfortunate “narrative” that “smeared” his good friend in the Oval Office.)
Read more : https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/opinion/mike-pence-so-help-me-god.html
By Carlos Lozada
Section: Opinion
Source: New York Times
Published Date: November 29, 2022 at 02:00AM
His memoir, “So Help Me God,” is very illuminating, though not always in the way the former vice president wants it to be.
'Why wouldn’t Trump — a man Pence invariably calls 'my president' and 'my friend' — assume that his vice president would help steal the election? Pence had agreed to so much else,' CarlosNYT writes.
His memoir, “ So Help Me God ,” is very illuminating, though not always in the way the former vice president wants it to be. , but don’t buy the redemption tale just yet. Pence was indeed in the White House to serve, but he served the president’s needs more than those of the nation. In “So Help Me God,” Pence rarely contradicts the president, even in private, until the days immediately preceding Jan. 6. He rarely attempts to talk Trump out of his worst decisions or positions. He rarely counters Trump’s lies with the truth.
wouldn’t claim No, it’s not when the president fired F.B.I. director James Comey in May of 2017, an action Trump took not for self-serving reasons, he assured Pence, but because it was “the right thing to do for the country.” (Apparently Pence is so persuaded by this argument that he quotes it twice.) It’s not when Trump praised the “very fine people” on both sides of the Charlottesville tragedy in August 2017. (Any notion of a false equivalence between neo-Nazis and those opposing them, Pence explains, was an unfortunate “narrative” that “smeared” his good friend in the Oval Office.)
Read more : https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/opinion/mike-pence-so-help-me-god.html
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