New book "exposes" Mike Pence as "a bigot. Also a liar. Also cruel."
New explosive exposé of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence by Michael D'Antonio and Jewish journalist Peter Eisner promises to blow the lid off of "likable" V.P. Mike Pence.
>There are problems with impeaching Donald Trump. A big one is the holy terror waiting in the wings.
>To that brimming potpourri he adds two ingredients that Trump doesn’t genuinely possess: the conviction that he’s on a mission from God and a determination to mold the entire nation in the shape of his own faith, a regressive, repressive version of Christianity. Trade Trump for Pence and you go from kleptocracy to theocracy.
>Beyond the perceived terror of President Donald Trump lies the threat of a full-blown Christian theocracy at the helm of current Vice President Mike Pence, a man one step away from institutionalized anti-Semitism, death penalty for abortion, and state persecution of LGBTQ people.
>In Pence’s view, any bite marks in his tongue are divinely ordained. Trump wouldn’t be president if God didn’t want that; Pence wouldn’t be vice president if he weren’t supposed to sanctify Trump. And his obsequiousness is his own best route to the Oval Office, which may very well be God’s grand plan.
>“People don’t understand what Pence is,” D’Antonio told me. Which is? “A religious zealot.”
>According to D’Antonio’s book, Pence sees himself and fellow Christian warriors as a blessed but oppressed group, and his “hope for the future resided in his faith that, as chosen people, conservative evangelicals would eventually be served by a leader whom God would enable to defeat their enemies and create a Christian nation.”
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