Maddow Blog-With new comments on Epstein files, Mike Pence says what Trump didn't want to hear
In an unprecedented dynamic, one of the presidents key intraparty detractors is the former vice president who served at his side for four years.
With new comments on Epstein files, Mike Pence says what Trump didnât want to hear - MSNBC
Pence knows that Taco is hitting normal Americans with massive price increases. He says the normal tariff is 2.5%.
Why would Taco threaten a 35% Canada tariff? Or 10%? & Epstein?
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To hear Donald Trump tell it, Republicans who take the Jeffrey Epstein scandal seriously, and resist White House pressure to treat the controversy as a hoax, are stupid, foolish and naïve. Evidently, the presidents former vice president came to a different conclusion. HuffPost reported:
Former Vice President Mike Pence has joined calls for the Trump administration to release all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, saying anyone associated with the late sex offender ought to be held up to public scrutiny. I think the time has come for the administration to release all of the files regarding Jeffrey Epsteins investigation and prosecution, Trumps former VP said in an interview Wednesday with CBS News Major Garrett.
While the Indiana Republican insisted that victims names should obviously be redacted, Pence added, in reference to the late alleged sex trafficker,
I think that anyone who participated or was associated with this despicable man ought to be held up to public scrutiny. ... I just think that we ought to get the facts to the American people....
All of this, of course, came on the heels of a 2024 campaign season in which Pence whose life Trump put in danger on Jan. 6, 2021 refused to back his partys presidential ticket, urged Republicans to reject the protectionist tariffs that Trump is so fond of, and told a group of voters in New York
: I have real concerns about the direction of the Republican Party today.
Its not exactly a secret that Trump has achieved a dominant level of power and control over the contemporary GOP, but he still faces some pockets of partisan resistance. In a dynamic without precedent in the American tradition, one of the presidents most notable intraparty detractors is the vice president who served at his side for four years.