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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is the beneficiary of a legal defense fund set up to aid in expenses related to the 2016 election, according to disclosures the vice president made public on Thursday. Federal ethics laws prohibit officials form accepting gifts, including in the form of legal aid.
A recent study conducted by the University of Queensland in Australia may very well provide some very valuable insights to help Americans understand and assess President Trump’s behaviors, beliefs, and policy positions.
This study, published in Intelligence magazine, identifies a correlation between homophobia and lower cognitive abilities, linking hatred and prejudice with lower intelligence.
Tim Libretti is a professor of U.S. literature and culture at a state university in Chicago. A long-time progressive voice, he has published many academic and journalistic articles on culture, class, race, gender, and politics, for which he has received awards from the Working Class Studies Association, the International Labor Communications Association, the National Federation of Press Women, and the Illinois Woman’s Press Association.
Donald Trump’s longtime friend Roger Stone knows how to get publicity, and in his latest interview he went off the deep end by making crazy claims that the purpose of Bob Mueller’s special counsel probe is to remove both Donald Trump and Mike Pence from office.
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Along with being Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence is also Donald Trump’s chief lackey and bootlicker. Therefore it was no surprise when Pence appeared this morning on television praising his criminal boss for shutting down the government for 35 days and costing the nation billions of dollars it will never get back.
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The completely tone-deaf Vice President of the United States Mike Pence yesterday quoted the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to defend Donald Trump’s racist efforts to build a wall along the southern border.
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According to Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman (who is highly respected) President Trump hosted a 2020 strategy meeting on Monday, and Mike Pence was on the agenda. Apparently the president’s advisers are trying to get him to tell them if he would consider a new vice president.
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Mike Pence thought he could avoid controversy, and stay far enough away from Trump’s criminal scandals to inherit the presidency after Trump’s ouster. He even thinks that is God’s will.
The problem with this thinking is that it would mean Pence had to avoid not just controversy, but also criminal behavior. But it seems it hasn’t worked out that way.
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On Monday, at a campaign event in Michigan, Vice President Mike Pence brought out Rabbi Loren Jacobs to lead the room in prayer for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh.
Now people are saying that Jacobs isn’t really a rabbi at all, and even the non-Jewish group that ordained him has “defrocked” him and taken away his ordination credentials.
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Paul Manafort hand-picked Mike Pence to be Trump's VP nominee, so Manafort's flip could be very bad news for the vice president.
After the anonymous op-ed piece appeared in the New York Times yesterday social media went wild with speculation about who its author might be. Only the Times editors know for sure, and they aren’t talking.
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Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio told CNN on Tuesday that Vice President Mike Pence believes he is on a mission from God — to become president. Also, since God wants him to be president, he believes that President Trump’s many scandals will be his ticket to the Oval Office.
I am a lifelong Democrat with a passion for social justice and progressive issues. I have degrees in writing, economics and law from the University of Iowa.
It was an historic day on Tuesday as President Trump’s Vice President and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) both admitted that there was significant Russian interference in the U.S. presidential elections in 2016.
I am a lifelong Democrat with a passion for social justice and progressive issues. I have degrees in writing, economics and law from the University of Iowa.
Kellyanne Conway praised Mike Pence for calling out sexism. The only problem was that she was praising a Mike Pence fan account on Twitter.
Republicans are at each other's throats after Trump made a side deal with Kim Jong-un to end US military activities on the Korean Peninsula.
Vice President Mike Pence waded right into the middle of the Russia scandal by calling for an end to the Mueller investigation, which highlighted how deep Pence is in on the Russia scandal with Trump.
Bizarre things are happening in the U.S. Senate race in Arizona. Jeff Flake is retiring and three Republicans are running in a primary to win his seat, including convicted criminal (and recipient of a presidential pardon) Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
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Yesterday, British Prime Minister Teresa May made clear that the nation of Russia was highly likely responsible, according to their evidence, for the poisoning of a former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury on March 4. She made clear – before the House of Commons – that the substance either came directly from Russia or was distributed to another actor by Russia, in order to administer the poison. Either way, the Prime Minister’s conclusion was that Russia was most likely responsible.
A social psychologist by day, political analyst and journalist by night, Dr. Mark Bear has built an established audience by printing facts, without click-bait, sensationalism, or hyperbole. He is married to his wife of 34 years, and both he and his wife, Susan, have a Schnauzer named Shadow. Follow along by connecting with Doc on Facebook or Twitter under the handle Dr. Progressive!
In a preview for the latest episode of Celebrity Big Brother, former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman said that Vice President Mike Pence would make an even more terrifying president than Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to withhold aid to the Palestinians if they did not pursue peace with Israel, saying they had snubbed the United States by not meeting Vice President Mike Pence during a recent visit.
Rachel Maddow explains why Mike Flynn's cooperation with the Special Counsel is another step toward the Russia hammer coming down on Vice President Mike Pence.