Pence Aide Says Trump ‘Suggested’ That VP Stay At His Out-Of-The-Way Irish Resort

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence meet Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and his partner Matthew Barrett at Farmleigh House on September 3, 2019 in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
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Marc Short, chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, defended Pence’s choice of out-of-the-way lodging during his trip to Ireland. Pence is staying at a Trump-owned property more than an hour’s flight from Dublin, where his meetings are taking place. Short said that President Donald Trump merely “suggested” that he stay there.

“I don’t think it was a request, like a command … I think that it was a suggestion,” Short told reporters, according to NBC News. “It’s like when we went through the trip, it’s like, well, he’s going to Doonbeg because that’s where the Pence family is from. It’s like, ‘Well, you should stay at my place.'”

Pence’s taxpayer-funded stay has whipped up widespread anger. Yet it’s another example of Trump seemingly using his position to enrich his private businesses. Just last month, he floated that next year’s G7 summit be held at another one of his properties, in Miami.

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  1. Avatar for jmacaz jmacaz says:

    Nothing to see here… just tRump operating as usual. So far he has been untouchable for Emoluments violations

  2. A fish rots from the head down.

  3. Somehow he managed to get foriegn and domestic emoluments wrapped into one trip.

  4. As blatant as Boss Tweed. Pence has to catch charges for this and all the other complicit stuff he’s done. Outrageous. Trump doesn’t understand right from wrong, but Pence has to know putting public money in your own pocket is a crime everywhere.

  5. Doonbeg because that’s where the Pence family is from

    Nonsense, Mike Pence was made by the Church Lady from underbaked white bread dough.

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