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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32973475

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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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 123 points 3 days ago (1 children)

had a falling out

Boy that's the most sanewashed way saying 'whipped up a mob that wanted to hang him' I think I've ever seen. Kudos, I guess?

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago

It was a mild disagreement related to vertebra and the application of rope.