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An extremely clever person put together a fake website for Vice President Mike Pence that has a hilarious what I ate section chronicling five (fictional) days in the Veeps life. Pence kicks off his week with 3 egg whites with mayonnaise vinaigrette washed down with a corn smoothie, and he ends it with 3 slices of white bread, a glass of whole milk, and an entire bottle of NyQuil. Judging by this fake food diary, Pence loves anything white and bland, so long as mother doesnt forbid him from eating it.

According to the joke diary, Pence went on a McDonalds hash brown bender on Wednesday, but the VP explains: I dont normally eat six hash browns for breakfast, but after finding out that my breakfast meeting was with a non-relative female, I had to abruptly cancel and head back to the White House for a briefing on Russia stuff.

His other meals that day are equally absurd:

The rest of the website imagines what it would look like if Pence launched an official 2020 presidential campaign. Although some people initially thought this was a hack of his official homepage, it turns out that Pences real website simply redirects to Donald Trumps landing page, and this is just a work of fiction. What I Ate Today [Mike Pence] All Eater IDK Coverage [E]

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Fake Mike Pence Food Diary Is the Funniest Food Thing on the Internet Right Now - Eater

Many Republicans wonder if Trump will remain in the picture and viable in 2020. He could implode even more than he already has, I mean. He could be run out of town, one way or another. He could stomp off. The scenarios are myriad, and to prepare for them, Pence indeed needs an infrastructure and a network of his own. But theres simply no way to assemble those without looking disloyal to Trump and courting the wrath of alt-right types who know how to go on a Twitter jihad.

Other would-be successors to Trump arent in the same bind. They dont owe Trump what Pence does. They never pledged Trump complete allegiance. Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, whose unofficial 2020 campaign commenced even before Trumps inauguration, can raise money, stage news conferences, take up residence on CNN and pick apart Trumps proposals all he wants. It wont endear him to Trumps base, but it wont make him a marked man.

Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska can style himself as a humble, homespun remedy to Trumps cupidity and histrionics. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas can take a calibrated approach, more hawkish than Trump on foreign policy but eager to link arms with him on immigration.

Pence, though, is squeezed tight into a corner of compulsory worship. And despite his behind-the-scenes machinations, he has done a masterful job of appearing perfectly content there.

In news photographs and video, you catch other politicians glancing at the president in obvious bafflement. Not Pence. Never Pence. He moons. He beams. Its 50 shades of infatuation. Daniel Day-Lewis couldnt muster a more mesmerizing performance, and its an unusually florid surrender of principles.

Im not referring to policy and the fact that before he agreed to become Trumps running mate, he blasted Trumps proposed Muslim ban, tweeting that it was offensive and unconstitutional, and fiercely advocated free trade. Im referring to Pences supposed morality.

He trumpets his conservative Christianity and avoids supping alone with any woman other than his wife, then turns around and steadfastly enables an avowed groper with a bulging record of profanely sexual comments.

He publishes a testimonial, Confessions of a Negative Campaigner, in which he invokes Jesus while vowing never to repeat such political ugliness in the future, then turns around and collaborates with a politician whose ugliness knows no limit.

No wonder he wants and expects a reward as lavish as the White House itself: He sold his soul. But I dont think he studied the contract closely enough and thought the whole thing through.

Theres no political afterlife in this equation, just the loopy, mortifying limbo in which he and so many of Trumps other acolytes dwell.

Maybe the howling is cathartic. Wont change a thing.

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Sorry, Mike Pence, You're Doomed - New York Times

Under his watch, Trump made Michael Flynn his national security advisor, and thus gave him access to the nations most heavily guarded secrets, despite knowing that Flynn was under federal investigation for being a paid foreign agent for the Turkish government during the presidential campaign. Pence either wittingly lied to the public about Flynns misconduct during the campaign and transition, or allowed himself to be used.

Pence also repeated, seven times, Trumps dishonest pretext for firing FBI Director James Comeythat he was merely acting on the advice of his deputy attorney generalonly to see Trump confess his true motive for the firing to Russian diplomats in the Oval Office. (I just fired the head of the FBI, Trump told them.He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. Thats taken off.)

That, by sheer coincidence, is when reports citing unnamed sources painting Pence as the victim of a pattern of malpractice or intentional [deception] began to emerge. Poor Mike Pence didnt realize he had been enlisted to deceive the public about Flynn and Comeyhe was just following orders.

Its also when some of the most damaging leaks about Trumps official conduct began spilling out to the pressincluding top-secret information from that Oval Office meeting with the Russians that Pence may have the authority to declassify.

And finally, its when Trumps allies started noticing something amiss.

Assuming Pence isnt simply readying himself for Trumps downfall, but taking steps hasten it, we should note that he wont be well situated to make the most of his coup.

The most recent historical analogue, Gerald Ford, served in a care-taking capacity after President Richard Nixons resignation, before losing to Jimmy Carter two years later. But Ford, unlike Pence, could credibly disclaim complicity in the controversies that brought Nixon down. Ford wasnt elected vice president, but was elevated to the position after Nixons actual running mate, Spiro Agnew, was driven from office by scandals unrelated to Watergate. Pence may or may not be Agnew, but he isnt Ford either, and if he inherits the presidency from a beleaguered Trump, he wont ever be able to escape Trumps fetid aroma.

Ron Klain, a chief of staff to vice presidents Gore and Bidentold The New Yorkers Ryan Lizza on Tuesday, Over all, I would say that whenever Mike Pence runs for office in the future, the liability he will carry from this period is not how he distanced himself from Trump but, rather, how he deepened his ties to the President. But Pence may not be waiting until 2020. And just because he might be misguided about the spoils that would await him if Trump resigns or is impeached doesnt mean he isnt striving for that outcome anyhow.

Trump and his loyalists have been speculating publicly that the deep state is behind all of the damaging disclosures weve been swimming in for months. They should also wonder whether the presidents suspiciously fawning heir is behind some of them, too.

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Is Mike Pence the Deep State That Trump Fears? - New Republic

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President Trump Lunches With Mike Pence: White House Schedule Aug. 10 Patch.com At 12:30 p.m. Eastern, Trump will have lunch with Vice President Mike Pence at the golf club. Trump has no other events on his public schedule. (For more information on this and other political stories, subscribe to the White House Patch to receive ... Americans Are Still Terrible at Taking VacationsFortune The sad reason half of Americans don't take all their paid vacationMarketWatch On holiday: Countries with the most vacation daysUSA TODAY USA TODAY all 128 news articles »

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President Trump Lunches With Mike Pence: White House Schedule Aug. 10 - Patch.com

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Vice President Mike Pence will visit Indianapolis on Friday for two purposes.

At noon, the vice president will speak at the annual luncheon of the Indianapolis Ten Point Coalition. The event will run from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, 350 W. Maryland St.

Tickets for the luncheon start at $250 a person. Ticket packages range from $1,500 to $25,000. The coalitions website said the $10,000, $15,000 or $25,000 packages include admission to a private session with Pence. The coalition led by several African-American ministers is known for its campaigns to stem violence in crime-plagued city neighborhoods.

At 2 p.m., Pence, his wife, Karen, and Indiana Gov.Eric Holcomb and his wife, Janet, will be part of the ceremony to unveil Pences official governors portrait.He served as the 50th governor from Jan. 14, 2013 to Jan. 9, 2017. The event will begin at 2 p.m. at the StatehousesSouth Atrium.

Air Force Two was scheduled to arrive about 10:30 p.m. at Indianapolis International Airport, with a motorcade into the city to follow the airplanes landing.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump had lunch with Pence at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

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