Mike Pence

Mike Pence      (Politician, Vice President of the United States)
Born	Michael Richard Pence 1959-06-07 Columbus, Indiana, U.S.
Alma mater	Hanover College, Indiana University
Children	3
Spouse	Karen Batten
Member of	White House/Coronavirus Task Force
Party	Republican
Politician, Governor and former VP under Trump. Called a "decent guy" by Joe Biden. Called himself "Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order." Was named "to be hanged" by Trump mob and pressured Christopher C. Miller to deploy the national guard on January 6, the day of the D.C Capitol riots.  Vice President of the United States In office January 20, 2017 - January 20, 2021 Boss Donald Trump Preceded by Joe Biden Succeeded by Kamala Harris  Governor of Indiana In office January 14, 2013 - January 9, 2017 Preceded by Mitchell Daniels  Chair of the House Republican Conference In office January 3, 2009 - January 3, 2011 Deputy Cathy McMorris Rodgers  Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 6th district In office January 3, 2003 - January 3, 2013 Preceded by Mike Pence, Timothy Roemer, Mark Souder Succeeded by Susan Brooks, Jackie Walorski  Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 2nd district In office January 3, 2001 - January 3, 2003 Succeeded by Mike Pence, Mark Souder

Mike Pence (born June 7, 1959) is an American politician, lawyer, and the former Vice President of the United States. From 2013 to 2017 He was the 50th Governor of Indiana.

Latin America tour

On the eve of VP Mike Pence's Latin America tour in August 2017 to Colombia, Argentina, Chile, and Panama, President Donald Trump threatened military action against Venezuela, which has the world's largest oil reserves. Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza was quick to react saying Venezuela rejected "hostile" threats and called on Latin America to unite against Washington:

"We want to express gratitude for all the expressions of solidarity and rejection of the use of force from governments around the world, including Latin America."

Peru, one of Nicolás Maduro's fiercest critics, led the charge in criticising Trump's threat, saying it was against United Nations principles:

"All foreign or domestic threats to resort to force undermine the goal of reinstating democratic governance in Venezuela, as well as the principles enshrined in the UN charter," said Peru's Foreign Minister Ricardo Luna.

Mexico and Colombia joined in with statements of their own:

"All measures should be peaceful and respect the sovereignty of Venezuela," a statement from Colombia's foreign ministry said.

Regional alliance Mercosur added it rejected the use of force against Venezuela, despite having indefinitely suspended the country last week amid international condemnation of Maduro's new, all-powerful National Constituent Assembly.

Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman, reporting from the Chilean capital Santiago, said Trump's comments have "raised alarm bells from Mexico to Pantagonia":

"The mere suggestion is being rejected in a region with bitter memories of the days when the US marines were sent in to impose American interests in Washington's so-called backyard," she said.

Pence's problem

Patricio Navia, a political analyst, told Al Jazeera that Pence will have his hands full in trying to gain political leverage in the region:

"I think Pence's problem is that he is going to come to Latin America and people are going to ask him:

'Are you speaking on behalf of President Trump, are you speaking on behalf of the US government? Will President Trump be the president a year from now in the US?'

"So, I dont think he has enough political clout to exert any kind of influence in Latin America. I don't think any Latin American nation would support military invasion of Venezuela. What I think Pence wants to do is shore up support to remove Maduro through other means."

2021 US Capitol Riots

Pence was reported as the one to be calling the US Army on his own voters, which left the army quite confused.

Trump played an interesting role, consistently tip-toeing between support for the rioters, and trying to not be removed by forces in the U.S Government. One could begin to question what his true thought process was, apart from the usual CCM answers that the US President was clueless just thinking what to do on the spot while Pence urged the US National Guard to wipe the city clean.

10 minutes after the first rioters entered the US Capitol during the 2021 Washington D.C. Riots Trump tweeted on Twitter, and was reported by Liz Cheney to have mentioned Pence hanged would be "maybe that what he deserves".

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Donald Trump/First Presidency	“Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!"”	Donald Trump	6 January 2021

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Brussels Forum/2024	18 April 2024	19 April 2024	Belgium Brussels Hotel Le Plaza	Annual spooky get-together of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the very spooky German Marshall Fund.
Munich Security Conference/2019	15 February 2019	17 February 2019	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."

 

Event Witnessed

Event

Description

2021 Washington D.C. Riots

One of the most fortified positions in the US gets violently overrun by a group of Trump Supporters after a demonstration... without a single shot fired by the mob. Official narrative soon blamed Trump and extremists. Official opposition narrative soon blamed the democratic party trying to fraud Joe Biden into the White House. Several other governments were briefed by intelligence services that the incident seemingly "was being allowed" to happen.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Is Oil Behind Washington’s Venezuela Coup Madness	Article	3 February 2019	William Engdahl	Leaving aside whether or not Maduro is a saint, the decision by President Trump to back the Bolton-Pence call for a US intervention in Venezuela may prove a fatal error for the Trump presidency.
Document:Outside In: The Trump Administration’s Plan to Remake the Middle East	Article	10 October 2018	Ted Snider	Benjamin Netanyahu refers to his doctrine as Outside In: first you pacify the Outside and ally with the Sunni Arab states (Egypt and Saudi Arabia) outside of Israel, then, in exchange, you extract a peace plan out of them that you then impose Inside on a Palestine now devoid of allies and leave it helpless to hold out against a peace plan forced on the Palestinians by Donald Trump.
Document:Trump said to deprecate Netanyahu's intention to bump off Assad	Article	1 September 2017	Eric Zuesse	Better wait until my fundamentalist VP is in place, Benny boy!
Document:Under Trump, the Israel lobby is a Hydra with many heads	Article	30 May 2018	Jonathan Cook	Since Trump took office, the Israel lobby has mobilised four other powerful lobbies: Christian evangelicals, the alt-right, the military-industrial complex and Saudi Arabia
Document:Venezuela critics are just Blairites having a kick at Jeremy Corbyn	Interview	7 August 2017	George Galloway Luke Dolan	For nineteen years the United States government and its secret agents have been trying to overthrow the Venezuela political process. Why might that be? Well, there are many reasons but the biggest among them has the smallest name: OIL.

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