March 27, 2018
By Eugene Scott
...According to a recent CNN poll, (click here) 4 in 10 white evangelicals, or 40 percent, believe the women involved in reports about Trump’s alleged infidelities. The share who believe Trump is a bit lower — 36 percent. An additional 24 percent are unsure.
But white evangelicals’ decreased faith in Trump’s fidelity may not lead to significant drops in disapproval of Trump — and it certainly is not likely to keep them from voting for the GOP.
After Sunday’s interview, David Brody, co-author of “The Faith of Donald Trump: A Spiritual Biography,” tweeted:
“Attention mainstream media: if you think the Stormy Daniels #60Mins interview on @CBSNews is going to move the needle downward regarding evangelical support for @realDonaldTrump, you would be dead wrong. Don’t expect any change.”...
Perhaps the spiritual corruption that exists among the Caucasian Evangelicals is justifiably dulled by their influential Vice President. Sins need justification when their hold on power is affirmed by policy changes. It would appear to the American voter that Donald Trump is the extremist, but, the truth is more than Vice President Pence is directing the ship.
If Pence were to ever take the Oval Office, the tone and policy would never change. The difference is that he would never meet with women alone and he is faithful to his spouse without a prenuptial agreement.
October 16, 2017
By Ella Nilsen
The power struggle between populist hardliners and moderate generals (click here) in the Trump White House is well documented. Vice President Mike Pence has largely stayed out of the drama, while quietly becoming one of the most powerful people in the Trump administration, according to a new profile of Pence from the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer.
Mayer’s piece shows that behind the scenes, the vice president has made a huge mark on President Trump’s policy agenda, while putting himself in a good position for his own presidential ambitions. Mayer writes that Pence’s influence has shaped White House policies far more than that of other important members of the administration, including Breitbart executive chair Steve Bannon or Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. In particular, Pence’s longstanding connection to libertarian megadonors Charles and David Koch — former political enemies of Trump — has helped shape the current White House.
Pence and Trump are two very different men. Pence is a devout evangelical who doesn’t dine alone with other women unless his wife is present. He made his name in conservative politics as a talk radio host and enacted hardline policies during his time as Indiana’s governor, mandating burials for fetuses and essentially allowing businesses to discriminate against gay people. Trump is a bombastic billionaire who famously bragged about groping women and publicly espoused pro-choice and pro-same-sex marriageviews. Mayer’s piece includes moments where Trump mocked Pence’s socially conservative views and his tendency to pray in the White House....
Why put on airs, the Kochs should have an office in the West Wing with corruption this dense. Are any of these staffers in violation of lobbying laws (click here)? They bounce back and forth between government and Koch employment. That sounds like a violation to me and quite possibly at the state as well as federal government.
...Many of Pence’s former political staffers have gone on to work for Koch Industries and their affiliated advocacy groups, and some have come back to work in the White House; a former Pence staffer named Marc Short now serves as the head of legislative affairs in the White House, and has close ties to the Koch brothers. Pence also helped boost Cabinet members including DeVos and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, both Koch favorites....
