If Trump Gets Tossed, Get Alarmed About Who's Next in The Line-of-Succession

Damn. There's some really good reporting out there if you don't have a short attention span or an attention-deficit disorder and are keen on telling details and phrases - like this from Jane Mayer, a reporter with a checkered past, who snapped 16 pages in The New Yorker - it's way more than yuk-yuk good when she says about VP Pence 
"A devotional gaze rarely seen since ... Nancy Reagan"
Thanks again to Mike Allen aka axios.com  - it's #3 on Mike's Top 10 this morning

Letter from Washington

October 23, 2017 Issue

The Danger of President Pence

Image credit: Illustration by Todd St. John

Stephen Bannon, the former White House strategist, worries that Pence would “be a President that the Kochs would own.”

Farther along in the 16 pages, Mayer describes Pence as "the prim Indiana evangelical".

 

 

A New Yorker profile of Vice President Pence by Jane Mayer gets 16 pages in the new issue ... "The Danger of President Pence: Trump's critics yearn for his exit. But Mike Pence ... poses his own risks":

• "Two sources ... recalled Trump needling Pence about his views on abortion and homosexuality. During a meeting, ... [a] legal scholar had said that, if the Supreme Court did so, many states would likely legalize abortion on their own. 'You see?' Trump asked Pence. 'You've wasted all this time and energy on it, and it's not going to end abortion anyway.'"
• "When the conversation turned to gay rights, Trump motioned toward Pence and joked, 'Don't ask that guy — he wants to hang them all!'"
• "Marc Short, the head of legislative affairs in the Trump White House, credits Pence for the Kochs' rapprochement with Trump. 'The Kochs were very excited about the Vice-Presidential pick,' Short told me. 'There are areas where they differ from the Administration, but now there are many areas they're partnering with us on.'"
• Over the fireplace in the Vice-President's residence, he has hung a plaque with a passage from the Bible: "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'"

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