Wednesday, January 22, 2025

the last book I ever read (Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, excerpt ten)

from Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa:

Vice President Mike Pence, ever a team player, also refused to publicly accept that Biden had won. He had banked his political future on being embraced by Trump’s voters as the president’s reverent second in command and most logical successor.

“It ain’t over til it’s over,” Pence tweeted on November 9, “and this AIN’T over!”

But Pence’s team did not want to see him get swept into Trump’s election fight.

“Get him the hell out of D.C., the hell out of Crazytown,” Pence’s veteran political adviser, Marty Obst, advised Marc Short, now Pence’s chief of staff.

Short—an intense conservative with deep ties in the business and congressional realms, who had a closely shaved head—started planning day trips for Pence. The vice president, who still headed the White House’s coronavirus task force, would travel to vaccine development sits and manufacturing plants.



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