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Jared Kushner: Pence vice president interview
with Trump ‘painful’

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Posted By: MDConservative, 8/23/2022 1:51:27 PM

Former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner played a key role in laying the groundwork for Mike Pence to be selected as the 2016 GOP vice presidential nominee, but he admits now that it had a “painful” beginning. In his new book released today, Breaking History: A White House Memoir, Kushner wrote that unlike in other campaigns, the candidate decided to lead the search for a running mate, and Trump initially settled on Pence, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Kushner, who was the unofficial campaign manager, wrote that all three fit with Trump’s goal of ignoring the Washington “elite” and reaching out to blue-collar voters.

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Two things: It seems that putting Kushner in that key political position was amateur hour. Government and politics aren't business. What was Kushner working from? Secondly, Kushner notes, “Over the next five years, I kept waiting for Pence to break character — to do what most politicians do behind the scenes and criticize others, complain about situations, and push back on requests to travel to events — but he never did.” Take that for whatever it's worth.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Birddog 8/23/2022 2:01:18 PM (No. 1257154)
Newt might have been the better choice(though two lighting rods of Dem/Media HATE on a single ticket may have been tooooo heavy of a load to win with) ...or the better choice for 2024. Clearly not Christie...ever.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Ribicon 8/23/2022 2:05:25 PM (No. 1257158)
Kicking Steve Bannon out and bringing in Jared Kushner and Ivanka as senior advisors, plus the vaccines, plus failing to now condemn the vaccines and the criminals who made them, plus ethanol, plus backing various Deep Staters to the House and Senate, bringing in Reince Priebus and John Bolton, plus accomplishing very little that was not reversed within months of Bidet being allowed to steal the election, leave me considering other options for 2024.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: padiva 8/23/2022 2:27:51 PM (No. 1257174)
So.. that's why Christie is a cry baby. Newt would have been better. Newt's wife was an ambassador. Newt supported PDT.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: jimincalif 8/23/2022 2:38:55 PM (No. 1257182)
Welp, the first objective of VP selection is to win the election, so in that regard Pence was a success. Would Trump have won 2016 with either Gingrich or Christie? No way to know, but both of them had more national baggage than Pence. Might not have mattered since Trump is such a force himself.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: judy 8/23/2022 2:44:18 PM (No. 1257186)
Jared & Ivanka was a great choice. Trump probably didn’t trust tooooo many DC permanent politicians…Newt would have been better than Pence…
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Reply 6 - Posted by: anniebc 8/23/2022 3:09:14 PM (No. 1257206)
He would have been better off choosing the doctor--the neurosurgeon. I can't think of his name, but he also ran for President. Why those three seemed like good choices to consider is beyond me?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: anniebc 8/23/2022 3:09:27 PM (No. 1257207)
Ben Carson!
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Reply 8 - Posted by: deerejon 8/23/2022 3:16:56 PM (No. 1257213)
Most of the Country didn't even know who Mike Pence was back in 2016,Trump should have picked his own Vice President,and not relied on Kushner's advice.Was a bad choice IMO.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Kate318 8/23/2022 3:45:41 PM (No. 1257229)
Pence was interviewed on a local radio station in my city yesterday. His coy avoidance of whether or not he will run for POTUS (Karen & I will pray on it.), combined with his phony support for “just getting Republicans elected” and his I-had-no-Constitutional-authority shtick made my stomach hurt. I yelled at the radio until I couldn’t take it any more, and then shut it off. I wrote an email to the radio show host complementing him on his bootlicking interview. I have no doubt Pence played it close to the vest in the WH. He was a mole who needed to look like he supported President Trump, all the while working against him. Chris Christie would have been worse. Should’ve been Newt. And, #2, I can’t argue with most of what you wrote. But, I’ve never seen anything like what he did accomplish in his few short years, and so I will stick with The Donald, if he runs.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: john56 8/23/2022 4:11:13 PM (No. 1257241)
While I believe the election of 2020 was stolen (by the same people who tried to reverse the results of the 2016 election that they stupidly lost), proving it is a totally different thing. Unfortunatly, our courts, both federal and state, did not allow President Trump and his supporters to do so. Evidence since continues to strongly suggest that there were some significant acts of fraud in at least 6 or 7 states. Anyway, I give Mike Pence a pass. On January 6, any plausible challenge had been ignored or long passed. The best Republicans could do was what the Dems did in 2000, 2004, and 2016, and that was caterwahl and object over and over again and be gavelled down. There was no path to changing the electoral result on that day, as much as President Trump and his supporters wanted to do so. A reasonably peaceful protest (I would say it was more peaceful than the several hundred riots that caused deaths, injuries, and billions of dollars of damage in the year prior) was certainly a free expression of the people. Leave it to our deep state masters and entrenched politicans of both parties to use it to build their power.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 8/23/2022 4:37:20 PM (No. 1257259)
Pence is far better than Christie, but nowhere near as good as Gingrich could have been.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: kreeger 8/23/2022 5:12:55 PM (No. 1257281)
This article just reinforced my opinion that DJT had his chance and blew it. He needs to put his check his ego and endorse DeSantis in 2024.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: TexaTucky 8/23/2022 5:22:32 PM (No. 1257293)
If the "amateur" who "blew it" by not making the much-wiser decisions we pols could have made can still manage to rank as the greatest president of my lifetime, imagine what he could do, untethered, in a second go given the lessons he's learned these past few years.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Ribicon 8/23/2022 7:16:56 PM (No. 1257372)
#6, that's Ben Carson, who failed to shut down HUD or overhaul it in any meaningful way. Same as Betsy DeVos, who failed to shut down (which now she says should happen) or overhaul the Department of Education. Same as Rick Gov. Goodhair Perry, who failed to shut down or overhaul the Department of Energy. Same as Mitch McConnell's wife Elaine "Conflict of Interest" Cho, the Chinese shipping magnate cleverly installed as Secretary of Transportation. Was the Department of Justice overhauled? Quite the contrary. Communists expelled from the State Department? Laughable. Anthony Fauci fired or arrested? Not at all. In hindsight it would be hard to argue that we've not been taken for a ride, and now we're demanding 4 more years of it, expecting something different based on nothing but wishful thinking.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: danu 8/23/2022 8:00:39 PM (No. 1257392)
OP: The WhinjaTurtle and Pontius Pence were playing the longer Goebbalist game; Kusher could not recognise or see through it.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: MissMann 8/24/2022 3:34:56 AM (No. 1257532)
Jared was behind a lot of horrible personnel decisions. I think Trump still has a blind spot when it comes to him and other family members.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Muguy 8/24/2022 7:32:29 AM (No. 1257622)
Many worship Mr.Trump in a similar way to how NoBama was worshiped, and putting family members in charge of important policy decisions is not wise. Chris Christie??? That would be akin to putting JEB! in an important place-- he sold out for personal attention long ago. Mr. Newt would have been the choice, and although Dr. Carson is a skilled pediatric surgeon and a wonderful human being, he would not have been the best choice. Savvy as his children and in-laws might be, we didn't elect him and he should have protected Mr. Trump from all the enemies around him out to get him.
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