Vice President Mike Pence continues to obstruct efforts to access the private email account he used to conduct official Indiana business while he served as that state’s governor. Over 50 pending requests for records during Pence’s tenure are being held up, some of them are over 10 months old. USA Today reports, “Pence still hasn’t […]

In an apparent attempt to clean up the White House’s increasingly messy explanation for the firing of FBI Director James Comey, Donald Trump just made things much worse. In an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, Trump said that “regardless of recommendation,” he was going to fire Comey in the midst of Comey’s investigation into the Trump […]

Donald Trump and his White House have offered a number of conflicting explanations and timelines about the decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. The one thing that has become abundantly clear is that the administration is not being honest with the American people. And it looks more and more every day like a massive […]

Vice President Mike Pence continues to dig himself deeper into the muck with his boss. Pence is already deeply involved in the Michael Flynn scandal, and is now further tarnishing himself by attempting to cover for Donald Trump’s outrageous firing of FBI Director James Comey. Pence is parroting the bald-faced lie that former Director of National Intelligence […]

Mike Pence’s approval rating has dropped significantly as his role in the scandals enveloping the Trump administration becomes clearer, according to a new poll from Fox News. Pence has dropped from a 50 percent approval in April to 42 approval now. His disapproval number also increased 10 percent, now at 43 percent. Sources associated with Pence, […]

Donald Trump made a lot of noise about supposedly saving over a thousand jobs at HVAC manufacturing company Carrier’s facility in Indianapolis. He bragged that, before he was even officially sworn in, he had delivered for the working-class voters he courted during the campaign. But it was always hollow, as Carrier still planned to ship […]

Ahead of upcoming Senate testimony from former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the Associated Press has released a stunning report on concerns raised by the Obama administration about Donald Trump’s transition team, led by Mike Pence. One of the recurring themes […]

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made quite a show of supporting Donald Trump during the 2016 election, a move that earned him widespread ridicule and resentment from his constituents, who already had a low opinion of him. At one point, Christie even had to deny that he was Trump’s “manservant,” after a New Yorker story reported that […]

When Donald Trump reorganized his National Security Council and removed his political strategist Steve Bannon from an unprecedented permanent seat on the principals committee of the NSC, speculation abounded that Bannon’s power within the White House was waning: .@CillizzaCNN: The removal of Steve Bannon suggests a potentially significant change in the balance of power https://t.co/wzkpH1ga74 […]

Vice President Mike Pence delivered a pair of commencement addresses this weekend, both of which drew powerful protests. Pence’s speech to small Christian school Grove City College was met with demonstrations outside the event. And his address to the University of Notre Dame drew protests from without and within. Pence’s appearance at the commencement drew throngs of […]

Vice President Mike Pence used his commencement speech at a small Christian college in western Pennsylvania Saturday to hold up Donald Trump as an example to students. “Aspire to be men and women of character,” Pence told Grove City College graduates. “Servant leadership must be the animating force.” Earlier this week, Trump displayed a stunning lack […]

Vice President Mike Pence went to Capitol Hill to try to shore up Republican support for the latest Obamacare repeal bill, but at least one House member was unpersuaded. Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) walked out of the meeting before it even ended, telling reporters that Pence had not changed his mind. “He knows where I am and what […]

Among the many scandals dogging Donald Trump’s administration is the failure to properly vet disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who had ties to foreign governments and received payments from Russia, despite a warning from the Defense Intelligence Agency that it would be illegal to do so. The White House has been obstructing the congressional investigation into […]

Marc T. Short, the White House director for Legislative Affairs, is leading the Trump administration’s obstruction of the congressional inquiry into Michael Flynn and Russia. Short is also a major player in Vice President Mike Pence’s political operation, and further connects Pence to the Flynn scandal. As previously reported, Pence was in charge of the Trump […]

Vice President Mike Pence has largely gotten an unearned pass from the media on the Trump/Russia probe, and pretty much every other issue, but recent revelations about his complicity and dishonesty in the Mike Flynn scandal could change that. This weekend, MSNBC’s Joy Reid criticized Meet the Press, on NBC, for failing to ask Pence […]

The Trump administration is digging itself in even deeper over the scandal surrounding former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. In addition to his contacts with the Russian government, including being paid several thousand dollars for an appearance on state-owned television and his attendance at a dinner party with Vladimir Putin, Flynn also lobbied on behalf […]

Mike Pence was a major player in the scandals enveloping the Trump administration, and no amount of spinning and leaking to reporters from him and his team can change that fact. A spate of stories in recent days — apparently coming from Pence himself or his political team — has attempted to distance Pence from Trump. The Pence […]

Befitting his reality TV resume, Donald Trump is certainly the star of the ever-deepening drama his scandal-ridden young administration has brought to D.C. But as Rachel Maddow concisely and devastatingly laid out on her show, Vice President Mike Pence deserves just as much time in the media spotlight. Pence’s reputation has perhaps benefitted from comparison […]

Before Donald Trump was even sworn into office, his transition team knew Michael Flynn was under federal investigation and was thus a huge liability to the incoming administration. Yet he was appointed national security adviser anyway. Flynn reportedly told the Trump transition team — which was headed by Mike Pence — that he was being investigated for secretly […]

Vice President-elect Mike Pence managed to talk without saying a whole lot during his interview with Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace this week, but there was one response that stood out. Wallace asked Pence the question that CNN’s Jim Acosta never got the chance to ask when Trump froze him out at his press conference, […]

In the face of continuing controversy on multiple fronts, the Trump White House has not held an on-camera press briefing for over a week. The last on-camera briefing with the White House press corps was on February 27. Since then, Press Secretary Sean Spicer has held smaller, off-camera “gaggles” with the press, but has not represented […]

This Friday, when thousands of anti-choice activists descend on Washington, D.C., for the annual March For Life, they will be joined, for the first time in the event’s history, by a sitting White House official: Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s campaign manager and now White House counselor, will be speaking at the march, offering official support […]

During his confirmation hearing to head the CIA, Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) was asked by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) if he would comply if Donald Trump asked him to reinstate torture. “Absolutely not,” he replied. Pompeo’s answer signified a major break with Trump, who bluntly advocated resuming the use of waterboarding and “much worse” in […]

Shortly after his first meeting with President Obama following the election in November, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would like to keep intact crucial provisions of the Affordable Care Act, including the ban on discriminating against people for pre-existing conditions and the requirement that children be allowed to stay on their parents’ plans until age […]

While he served as Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence used a private AOL email account to conduct state business, including the discussion of sensitive homeland security issues. The Indianapolis Star reports, “Pence communicated via his personal AOL account with top advisers on topics ranging from security gates at the governor’s residence to the state’s response […]

On Fox and Friends, Mike Pence told host Brian Kilmeade that “it’ll be my honor” to lead an investigation into Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud — which are wholly baseless — but conspicuously skirted the question that Kilmeade actually asked (emphasis mine): KILMEADE: You know you have got another job today. He put you in […]

This piece was co-written by Shareblue staff writers Dianna E. Anderson and Alison R. Parker. Since his election, Donald Trump has attempted to shape himself as a “jobs” president, taking credit for numerous manufacturing decisions and new plants. But Trump’s “jobs jobs jobs” line will be completely undermined by a budget being modeled off the […]

Vice President Mike Pence did some heavy lifting for the Trump administration this weekend, appearing on four Sunday shows to try to repair some of the damage that Donald Trump has done in just two weeks on the job. It did not go well. On ABC’s This Week, Pence revealed more of Trump’s weakness against […]

Russia’s escalating aggression in Ukraine has already exposed Donald Trump’s weakness in dealing with Vladimir Putin. On ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos pressed Vice President Mike Pence on the subject, contrasting the administration’s handling of Iran with the response to Russia, and getting Pence to offer some insight into the depth of Trump’s weakness […]

Mike Pence, veep-elect and former Congressman, is emerging as the most powerful vice-president ever. I have repeatedly urged maintaining focus on Pence, and the bridge-building between the White House and the GOP Congressional majority with which he would certainly be tasked. And here we are: On the second day of the new Congress, Pence will […]