The unusual alliance between Trump and Mike Pence has gained a new layer of intrigue with the House's impeachment inquiry — and with an offhand remark from the president
As Donald Trump stares down impeachment, allies of Vice President Mike Pence claim he is as calm and poised as can be.
Responding to a question about the president’s U.N. news conference, Tom LoBianco, author of the new Pence book “Piety and Power,” asked, “You mean when he gutted Pence on live TV?”“He tends to flash this paranoia every now and then that Pence is after the job," Lobianco said. "It’s like joking not-joking. But I was shocked that he was so out in the open this time .”
Some people close to Pence, who spoke with POLITICO on the condition of anonymity, saw the president’s recent comment as nothing more than Trump’s typical stream of consciousness — an innocent statement meant to convey that neither he nor the vice president are guilty of wrongdoing. Pence met with Zelensky on Sept. 1 during a last-minute trip to Poland. He told reporters afterward he did not mention Biden during their conversation but did communicate his “great concerns about issues of corruption” in Ukraine. The vice president was not a participant on the July 25 call between the president and Zelensky, according to a senior administration official, who pushed back against aposter="https://static.politico.com/76/1d/89d23a804d4d95f3083b6e9593d4/trumpimpeachment.
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