As all know, former Vice President Mike Pence has officially declared for the presidential nomination in 2024. Pence is well known by “some” people. But — just as with ALL politicians — Pence has a lengthy history in politics. It may surprise you to discover that history is NOT so stellar and certainly not flawless.
We all deserve to know the facts: unfettered and a-political facts about Pence.
Kelleigh Nelson has created a three-part series of stories that include a deep-dive into the past of the former Veep. Today, we publish Part One of this three-part series.
Warning: what you are about to read is eye-opening and will discount much of what you’ve “heard” about Mike Pence. Please know that Kelleigh Nelson NEVER authors any piece that is not vetted at the highest levels.
Parts Two and Three of this series will be published tomorrow (Friday) and on Monday.
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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. Booker T. Washington
Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs. Anonymous
Everyone wanted to see (him) fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas. Carlos Ruiz Zafón – author
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than loyalty. Cicero
On January 6th, 2021, Mike Pence knifed Donald Trump in the back and the Republic in the heart. We expected it. He refused to hear from states who wanted a ten to twelve-day delay in the counting of electoral votes, despite receiving multiple letters asking him to do so. At the end of the electoral count, he elbow bumped with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. His loyalty was not to Donald Trump or to the Republic.
Presidential Aspirations
The former VP has now formed a fundraising group hinting a run for President in 2024against former President Trump, who I highly doubt will run again. Pence claims he’ll be active in 2022 elections. The treasonous activities of the 2020 elections have proven the alleged vote fraud will never again allow true conservatives to be elected; of course, those who would toe the line are acceptable.
Pence has joined controlled-opposition Heritage Foundation as a distinguished fellow. He has also started a podcast and will be writing a monthly op-ed and speaking at conferences and colleges in his new capacity as the Ronald Reagan Presidential Scholar at the conservative Young America’s Foundation. The foundation was founded at the home of neo-con William F. Buckley and is heavily funded by Koch brother organizations and famous icons of the neo-con rightwing including former Amway executives Richard and Helen DeVos and Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute.
In May 2017, Pence filed FEC paperwork to form Great America Committee, a political action committee (PAC) that would be headed by his former campaign staffers Koch brothers’ Nick Ayers and Marty Obst. Pence is the only vice president to have started his own PAC only six months after taking office. See Open Secrets for who received funds.
Pence Demeanor
Pence was a six-term member of the House who had focused on climbing the ladder of party leadership but he never chaired a major committee or authored even one single successful piece of legislation. His manner, always guarded and always pushing to get ahead, caused members of his own party to keep him at arm’s length. Pence was considered likeable enough, but he wasn’t personally popular; his closest friends in the House were Jeff Flake and Paul Ryan.
Flake went on to become Arizona Senator in 2013 and retired after one term. As Senator, he embraced the amnesty cause and became a charter member of the disastrous 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty group who helped arm the Benghazi rebels.
Paul Ryan joined the board of Fox News in early 2019.
Pence is a man who covers his true personality with a veneer of niceness…you never see the real Mike Pence, a man who along with his wife plans a cunning strategy for every event.
His “kindly pose” is so practiced that he looks like a man whose face will never crack an honest to goodness smile. He’s spent a lifetime learning to avoid offense and in doing so has become an empty suit. No one has ever profiled him in depth…Pence has always been recognized for his demeanor and not his accomplishments of which there truly are none.
Despite presenting himself as a deeply moral man, the reality belies this front. His record shows a ruthlessness and comfort with aggression that contradicts his religious pose.
Pence claimed Charles Colson as his mentor. Colson was a convicted Watergate conspirator who allegedly wrote an enemies list for President Nixon and proposed firebombing a Washington think tank in order to obtain documents it held.
Colson supposedly had a religious conversion, but is that what drew Pence, or was it Colson’s aggressive tendencies? Pence has immense ambition and his wife Karen is fully behind him.
Many people do not give credence to Pence’s religiosity, believing it is just another way to justify his ambition. He failed as a conservative member of Congress for twelve years, he failed miserably as Governor of Indiana for one term, and he also failed as a loyal vice president.
Early Years
After graduation, Pence applied to Indiana University’s law school, but failed the admissions test. Two years later, after intense study, he passed the test. He hated his law classes however and said it was a “bad experience.” While in Indianapolis, he met Karen Batten Whitaker at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. They were married in June of 1985.
Karen Pence is two years older than her husband, and was previously married to a med student. Her ex-husband, Dr. Steve Whitaker, became a drug company executive responsible in part for the development of the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis.
Mike graduated from law school in 1986 and he was ready to follow his political ambitions and Karen was there to help. She was Mike’s advisor and they campaigned together for his congressional seat by riding their bicycles through the district and wearing Pence for Congress t-shirts. Pence tied himself to popular politicians of the state, Senator Richard Lugar and Dan Quayle, but Democrat Congressman Phillip Sharp defeated Pence in 1988 and 1990. During those years, Karen taught school and Mike became an Indiana radio celebrity who was referred to as the decaf Rush Limbaugh.
Congressman Sharp retired and was succeeded in 1994 by Republican David M. McIntoshwho served three terms in Congress and ended up in trouble with the House ethics committee. McIntosh and Pence were close friends and when McIntosh decided to run for Governor in 2000, he urged Pence to campaign for the vacant congressional seat, which he won. McIntosh lost the race for governor, but in 2014, he became the head of Club for Growth who spent $2 million to defeat Donald Trump. (McIntosh was also a co-founder of the Federalist Society.)
Pence had many advisors throughout his political years and they followed him into the Vice Presidency, but always present in every Pence office was the “red phone.” That red phone was only used for calls from Karen Pence and when asked what it was for by a fellow congressman, he said, “Mrs. Pence is the only one who has the number, not anyone on staff. She occasionally shares it with the kids, but when this phone rings, I answer it.” It’s a known fact that if anyone wanted to get to Mike Pence, they had to go through Karen first; she was the gatekeeper and Mike’s top advisor.
Indiana Governor
When Mike Pence ran for Indiana Governor in 2012 and won, Karen was installed in an office across the hall from her husband. Again, the red phone was on Mike’s desk, and although his top advisor was just across the atrium, she only used the phone to talk to him. And she, not Mike, was the new sheriff in town as she set down rules for the Governor’s visitors. Their work hours were kept short and they left early to be home by 5:30 for dinner.
Indiana’s disappointment with the governor was evident. The Indiana mothers who ignited the national rebellion against Common Core were wondering why Governor Pence betrayed their trust. He took credit for repealing Common Core in Indiana when in fact he merely replaced it with a rebranded version of the same standards — actually, standards that might be even worse. Link
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) was watered down by Pence when Eli Lilly and others threatened to leave Indiana if Pence didn’t add an amendment to the bill to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. Nearly a dozen LGBTQ and civil-rights groups sent an open letter to Pence asking him to fix RFRA. When Pence caved, conservative support evaporated.
When President Trump threatened to overturn President Obama’s EO protecting LGBTQ federal contractors from discrimination, Mike Pence joined with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in urging the president to support the rights of the LGBTQ community.
Chosen VP
The beginning of this four-year VP Pence charade goes back to his initial investiture in politics and his ultimate goals. Pence knew his chances of being elected for a second term as Governor of Indiana were minuscule and falling. When Trump and his entourage came calling, Pence willingly opened the door and became the toady sycophant vice presidential candidate always gazing approvingly at Donald J. Trump. Behind the scenes he quietly plotted with wife Karen at his side.
Allegedly, Rick Gates and Paul Manafort had convinced Trump to take Mike Pence in order to cement the Midwest and garner evangelicals. The Indiana Hoosiers couldn’t stand the guy after four years of his weak leadership and caving to every threat from the left. Trump thought Pence smelled like a loser and wanted someone stronger. He was right! Pence has always been a loser. Pence had endorsed Ted Cruz, but he wanted a chance at the presidency and Trump opened the door.
Two others had been under consideration, former Governor Chris Christie (Abu Christie who put a Muslim on the New Jersey Supreme Court) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (an Alvin and Heidi Toffler acolyte since the 70s who believes the US Constitution and property rights should be eliminated); Newt was heavily promoted by Fox’s Sean Hannity. Allegedly both Ivanka and Melania Trump wanted Pence. All three VP choices were as LBJ to Kennedy and H. W. Bush to Reagan. If only Trump had chosen someone like General Michael Flynn, a brilliant patriot who loves his country and her people.
Establishment Lauds Pence
Members of the Republican establishment have lauded Pence for his experience and his solid credentials. Pence has been praised by Paul Ryan, who described him as a “personal friend” and a “movement conservative,” whatever that is.
Congressman Louie Gohmert revealed that Ryan had encouraged GOP House members to campaign against President Trump in 2016. Watch this 90 second video with Congressman Gohmert. Now we find out that Ryan and his Chief of Staff John Burks were both involved in pushing the fake Steele Russian dossier.
Pence has no problem with this as he toed the neo-con party line in Congress.
- Pence’s congressional votes were weak and he only received a 62% freedom index, the same as John McCain’s. Link
- Pence stated, “Trade means jobs but trade also means security. The time has come for all of us to urge the swift adoption of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.”
- “Calls to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. are offensive and unconstitutional.” Link
- Pence strongly denounced Trump’s proposal to close the U.S. borders to Muslim refugees.Link
Trump and Pence were always misaligned politically; their stances were opposite on so many issues. Yet, Pence always mustered a devotional gaze, not seen since the likes of Nancy Reagan.
Loyalty
Let’s go back to the day Pence was chosen as Trump’s running mate, and to the early campaign. The choice was obviously made to garner Pence’s former congressional friends into aiding Mr. Trump’s agenda, although that never worked out as planned.
- Governor Pence pulled his name from the governor’s race in Indiana before Trump had a chance to announce him, resulting in the Indianapolis Starcatching wind of it and announcing his nomination before the President.
- Pence’s endorsementof Paul Ryan, John McCain, Kelly Ayotte, and other leftist Republicans was done prior to Trump’s forced endorsements.
- When Trump’s recorded and edited Access Hollywood locker room chat with Billy Bush came out, Pence stated his disapprovalas though Pence was so pure that he had never uttered trash talk, and he hid away. Karen Pence was reportedly “disgusted” after watching Donald Trump’s 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape and called the president “reprehensible” and “vile.”
Billy Bush is the first cousin of George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Neil Bush, Marvin and Dorothy, and the nephew of George H. W. Bush, and we know they hated Trump and voted for Hillary.
Paul Ryan was allegedly linked to the release of that tape in an effort to destroy Trump’s campaign.
The media wanted Trump to drop out and Pence to take the lead with Ryan as VP. The latter two actually plotted this coup until Trump handily won his second debate.
- Trump’s two top establishment globalists, Pence and Priebus supported getting rid of Lt. General Mike Flynn after they claimed he misled his colleagues about conversations with the Russian ambassador. The willingness to throw Flynn under the bus was planned and executed by the Deep State. The president’s first and most damaging blunder was believing Mike Pence and asking for the General’s resignation.
- VP Pence’s former Chief of Staff was Josh Pitcock whose wife, Katherine Seaman, had been working with FBI Agent Peter Strzok on the FBI’s counter-intelligence investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server. Strzok had texted to Lisa Page, “If Katie’s husband is there, he can see if there are people we can develop for potential relationships.” Obviously, he was talking about Katherine Seaman and her husband, Josh Pitcock, a possible backdoor inside the administration.
Loyalty is a noble trait and one that is coveted by leaders, but our 45th President never saw many faithful and devoted Republicans, either in Congress or in his administration. After Chris Christie was ousted, the president appointed Mike Pence to bring in valuable people. All of them were establishment globalists and friends or supporters of Mike Pence. Only Education Secretary Betsy DeVos lasted, and she resigned before Trump left office in protest of January 6th. The establishment sewer rats did everything they could to stop President Trump from destroying their globalist goals.
Unfortunately, Trump’s failure was not hiring outside the swamp and seeing clearly who his enemies were and eliminating them quickly.
Conclusion
Stay tuned for Part Two.
