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Mike Pence emerges as one of the few Republicans willing to challenge Trump 2.0 (apnews.com)

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His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s health agencies. He’s delivering speeches urging the president to stand with longstanding foreign allies and lobbying members of Congress while aides write letters and opinion columns.

This weekend, he posted an article he penned more than a decade ago on the limits of presidential power after Trump claimed that, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

Mike Pence is emerging as one of the last Republicans in Washington willing to publicly criticize the new administration.

It’s an especially jarring role for the former vice president, whose refusal to break with Trump defined their time together in office until the two had a falling out over Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election and his efforts to remain in power.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Only because he wasn't a fucking moron, which means he could do a lot more focused damage- and I think we all at least half expected Trump to die in his term and hand it off to him.

He's just mad now that the Fascist Express left without him.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

The difference is that Pence truly believed in the lies Trump was pushing in his first term, and would have done anything he could to make them a reality. For Trump, they were just something you said to get people like Pence to support you while you needed them.