Donald Trump has gone from endangering Mike Pence's life to promoting his vice president as 'innocent' and 'honorable.' What's changed? (via MaddowBlog)
Very recently, however, Trump decided to adopt an entirely different attitude toward Pence. The HillFormer President Trump touted former Vice President Mike Pence as an “honorable man” on Friday, following reports that Pence had received a subpoena from the Department of Justice’s special counsel investigating Trump on multiple fronts. “Mike Pence is an honorable man,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Digital on Friday.
After roughly two years in which the former president had little to say about the former vice president that was positive, Trump has changed his tune quite suddenly. In addition to praising Pence as an “honorable man” late last week, Trump also recently published to his social media platform that referred to Pence’s classified documents controversy: “Mike Pence is an innocent man. He never did anything knowingly dishonest in his life. Leave him alone!!!”, and this one demanded that special counsel Jack Smith investigate a series of ridiculous conspiracy theories, instead of pressing “a very decent Mike Pence” for answers.
It was a telling message — because it helped shed light on why the former president now has complimentary things to say about the Republican Hoosier., seeking his testimony as part of the criminal investigation into Trump’s alleged Jan. 6 misconduct. It was right around this time that the former president switched gears, shifting from calling the former vice president a coward who deserved to be hunted to celebrating Pence as a “decent” and “honorable” man who should be left “alone.
It’s almost as if Trump suddenly became concerned about what Pence might tell the Justice Department while under oath.
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