Days after he testified to the Jan. 6 committee, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence said that “snake oil salesmen” fueled President Trump’s belief that Pence could reject certain states’ electors to overturn the 2020 election. His comments further emphasized a growing rift between Penceworld and Trumpworld.
“Unfortunately, the president had many bad advisers who were basically snake oil salesmen giving him giving him really random and novel ideas as to what the vice president could do,” Marc Short said Sunday on Meet the Press. Short’s comments came shortly after Pence himself pushed back against Trump’s recent attempts to blame the former vice president for refusing to subvert democracy and allowing the peaceful transfer of power to President Biden.
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