President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday dismissed a Friday New York Times report that Trump is increasingly questioning Pence’s loyalty.
Trump, the Times reported, has questioned Pence’s loyalty so often “that he has alarmed some of his advisers.”
Not so, Trump and Pence protested.
“No I don’t question his loyalty at all,” Trump told reporters Saturday morning, according to a pool report. “He is 100 percent loyal.”
He called the Times’ report “phony” and complained that the Times didn’t call him for comment.
But a White House spokesperson, Hogan Gidley, did tell the Times: “The president absolutely supports the vice president and thinks he’s doing an incredible job helping to carry out the mission and policies of this administration.”
Separately, Pence said he was “tempted not to dignify [the Times’ story] with a comment,” according to a pool report sent to reporters early Saturday morning.
“Look, the President and I are very close,” Pence added. “We have a very strong relationship. And I’ve been honored to serve as his vice president. And I was honored when he asked me to run with him again.”
Pence added that he and Trump “had a good laugh,” presumably about the Times report.
Oh, god… Trump declared 100% loyalty from Pence.
Pence is in the toaster now, set to crisp.
“And I was honored when he asked me to run with him again.”
Ahh saturday morning cartoons on full blast mode.
to funny
I’m certain there’s probably not one member of his cabinet that he hasn’t wanted to fire or has fired. Willing to bet he’d fire Pence too if he could. Pence probably refused to pick up a late order at McD’s for tRump.
What’s this, there seems to be a knife in your back, Individual-1. Now, who could have left that there?
Since the story is from Trump’s Court Stenographer Haberman I can only assume Trump himself was the source of the story.