Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, reportedly bamboozled his boss into switching his vice presidential pick from embattled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) to Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) by staging an airplane malfunction.
In July, The New York Times reported that Trump and Pence “impromptu dinner” after the GOP candidate’s plane was grounded by “mechanical problems.”“And at some point during the evening, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Pence if he would say yes, were Mr. Trump to offer him the No. 2 slot,” according to the Times.
But a Sunday report in the New York Post revealed that Manafort took the dramatic step of lying to Trump about mechanical problems with the plane after his boss tentatively selected Christie for the V.P. slot.
“Trump had wanted Christie but Bridgegate would have been the biggest national story,” Trump source told the Post. “He’d lose the advantage of not being corrupt.”
Manafort left the campaign in August after question arose about his business ties with Russia
I don't think anyone dislikes Pence at this point? he certainly looks better than Hillary's VP?
Andrew Martin
American here.
older conservatives love Pence. it was a good choice.
Nathan Stewart
Good decision tbqh Christie is a cluck.
Connor Butler
If Trump is this easily fooled, he has no business being president.
Rage on, cucks.
Noah Carter
Everyone likes Pence. I thought he was a shit pick at first but he's such a solid respectable guy. Seems genuinely loyal to Trump and absolutely destroyed Hillary's VP pick in the VP debate.
I can't imagine a better choice than Pence.
Noah Gomez
pence was the right choice desu
he's a cutie
Anthony Morgan
>“Trump had wanted Christie but Bridgegate would have been the biggest national story,” Trump source told the Post. “He’d lose the advantage of not being corrupt.”
He's not wrong. The left would have been ramming bridgegate back into national news again if that happened.
Brody Morris
can you imagine if he actually ran at the primaries, he'd make everyone but Trump look even worse than they already did
Hudson Howard
Living in new jersey people fucking hate the shit out of him. He just signed a gas tax bill that is a 30 cent hike in price then he got caught in a scandal as well called bridge gate.
William Martinez
Fuck Christie. Pence is our guy
Thomas Ramirez
I didn't care much for Pence
Then he absolutely blew Creepy Tim Kaine the fuck out in the debate. One of the great schlongings of our time. And for that, I'll give him some respect.
Levi Thomas
Good for Paul Manafort. He knows what he's doing.
Jonathan Lee
yawn.... non story
Aiden Brooks
Pence holds the key to a better america. Trump will be the face of that better america.
Jonathan Sullivan
>Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, reportedly bamboozled his boss into switching his vice presidential pick from embattled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) to Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) by staging an airplane malfunction.
good
Ethan Johnson
Pence is old-school conservative. Christie is a disaster.
This was a fine choice
Bentley Hernandez
Not fooled. Trump needed to be shown Republicans other than ones he saw on TV.
Eli Martin
This election is very simple really. GOOD vs. EVIL
>sources in trump's campaign LARPing in the MSM, ignore
>Manafort + Russia possible slide thread, sage
Lucas Flores
btw Paul Manafort is pulling all the strings on the Weiner case
He is an agent of Kek and these digits confirm.
Chase Sullivan
>trump source
nice meme
also no one cares christie would be a mistake
Andrew Perez
>"rawstory.com" >Implying the story is not fake
Fuck off, cuck
Josiah Fisher
Don't be fooled Pence is still establishment.
This is no different from Bush being Reagans VP
Landon Williams
Pence is a massive faggot out for his own interest. He talks the talk but walks like a fag.
Parker Hughes
And because of this great deed we will soon have the comfiest vice president of all time.
Kayden Allen
Comfort levels that shouldn't even be achievable desu
Parker Brown
Damn right, Pence's calming presence on these morning shows is outstanding. He is the perfect vp.
Mason Bell
HE KNOWS
Jaxson Allen
>no one cares christie would be a mistake this
Pence is the true living meme. Christie is low tier. Trump needs the highest quality memes working for him.
Landon Brown
Who cares?
In the end Pence won his debate so it didn't matter.
Nolan Gutierrez
The only people in NJ who give a shit about "bridge gate" are the slant-eyed gooks up in Ft. Lee and their butt hurt kike mayor. Nobody cares.
Mason Bailey
TRUMP WILL DROP PENCE SHORTLY AFTER NOVEMBER 9
PROVE ME WRONG >Protip: You can't
Christian Allen
Bullshit, Pence is such a good choice
People didn't like him at first, but everyone warmed up to him quickly, hell after the 2nd debate a lot of people wanted Pence to be the President, not the VP
Christie will make a fine AG, but not VP
David Morris
101.5 never shuts the fuck up about it
Aaron Taylor
I like Chrispie but he's too fat and not as chill as Pence. Plus I think he grew on Trump.
Julian Hall
>"""source"""
Colton Morgan
Sounds like a cheesy plot to a romantic comedy.
Brandon Wilson
You don't choose manafort. Manafort chooses you
Ryder Morgan
pence-prime also has a sub-pence in place as tim kaine's wife
James Thomas
>TWDPSANP really makes you think
Julian Jenkins
>He listens to 101.5 Found your problem.
Jose Cruz
Pence is still a warhawk, Trump even had to repudiate his stance on Syria and Russia in the second debate.
I will only like Pence if he is like Biden and stays vice president for 8 years.
Tyler Brown
Christie is a fat cunt
Henry Diaz
It ought to faggot Dig deeper
Logan Wilson
...
Samuel Powell
turth
Kevin Foster
should've picked a female VP tbqh desu.
Jason Jenkins
That makes me respect Manafort all the more, he did what he had to do and then fell on his own sword to avoid his Russian ties affecting the Donald.
Asher Murphy
Pence was the right choice. He has been proven a loyal warrior, and he will be greatly rewarded for his loyalty to Trump.
Andrew Morris
I really don't want Christie as AG, I want most of Trump's cabinet needs to be filled with outsiders.
Nathan Nguyen
>He has been proven a loyal warrior
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Oliver Long
I'm not schizo or autist, so you're gunna have to spell it out for me like as if you were communicating with a human.
Jackson Green
I hope Manafort gets some recognition when this is all over. He was a good soldier. Trump wouldn't be here without him.
Jayden Allen
He's had plenty of opportunities to nuke Trump's campaign
Ryder Harris
What US political mafia was Pence a member of before the RNC convention? Is he still a member? Really makes me think
Adrian Cruz
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Justin Collins
Huh? How did the fact that Trump thought the plane was malfunctioning or whatever cause him to change his VP pick to someone else?
>my plane is broken >well that's it, sorry Chris but I gotta go for Pence now, that's the only logical response
Charles Parker
>Trump needs to be shown
Pol's choice for leader of the "free" world, everybody.
Ignorant fucks voting for an ignorant fuck. How fitting.
Gavin Moore
The guy is still working for trump, you think trump would want Christie to think he just dropped him like that, he wanted his supporters, got them and ditched the guy for someone better.
Asher Campbell
Smart move on Manafort's part, I could see why Trump would want Christie SOMEWHERE with him in the administration after he decimated Roboto. But putting him on the ticket would have made things worse.
Pence has little drawbacks other than being neo-con lite, I'm still upset it wasn't Webb, Flynn, or Rand though but I don't think any of those were likely and they could fill other roles.
Ian Lopez
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Owen Cooper
You hire the best people so they stop you from hiring not the best people. Business 101.
The way Trump managed Lewandowski and Manafort and what he got out of them should be in a textbook for future generations.
Saddest thing is Manafort had to leave because he was the one American political figure who had ties to a legitimate government and not some terrorists/putschists installed by the cia
Parker Myers
>I don't think anyone dislikes Pence at this point?
Nothing better than a relic who thinks gay-baiting and gay-bashing is a strong political platform.
He's good at the "aw, shucks" lying through his teeth while seeming to be affable establishment crocodile routine though.
Carter Long
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Cooper Adams
I love you zarya
Eli Evans
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Ethan Powell
Watching his debate performance really gave me faith in the trump/pence pairing. Before that I was a /little/ worried that trumps mouth could get him in serious trouble, but pence is like the perfect counterbalance to that.
Jeremiah Brooks
Yea i don't doubt that's a factor at play. But trump is a good judge of character. If trump thought this guy was going to betray him, he wouldn't be putting him number 2.
It'd be very risky.
Gavin Bell
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Robert Cook
You've been posting this fucking image all day faggot
Grayson Robinson
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Daniel Gonzalez
His debate was just perfect.
Caleb Wood
>pence is like the perfect counterbalance to that.
Yes, he's an outstanding liar and fake.
Daniel Clark
Nope didn't happen. He actually got all of his VP picks together and eliminated one per week on the basis of their performance in assigned tasks. There were a lot of great boardroom moments this season. He taped the whole thing and it will be released after the inauguration.
Landon Brown
>refudiate
FTFY
Andrew Brown
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Hudson Powell
Who cares what the VP thinks about gay marriage?
Do you even know what the VP does??
Ayden Sullivan
Mannafort's associated with The Company. He's been around for a long, long time and has had a number of very interesting political dealings that are...strange for a political advisor (he's known Roger Stone a very long time, and his address is listed as Trump Tower, a few floors below Donald himself). Personally I think he was a bagman, as that makes the most sense, but I dunno.
Scooter Libby, Valerie Plame and Judy Miller proved that you can't out a spook, which is why no one's brought it up at all. I think this whole thing's been orchestrated by the CIA, which has operated semi-rogue since the 1970s, as an attempt to regain some control over our Federal Government after it's seizure by hostile actors.
And I hope to Christ it works, because the alternative is beyond frightening.
picks the embodiment of the ossified establishment GOP throwback — a crook who can stab you in the back with a bland faux-meek smile on his face while he looks at you with an "aw, shucks" shrug
too bad Bob Dole isn't still around for him to choose
Hudson Perry
Are you going to cry
Pic related is (You) lmbo
Owen Peterson
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Alexander Barnes
Elaborating more on this by the way. Paul Manafort never left. A man like that doesn't simply just walk and leave.
He's been doing some of the "covert" work I would imagine for Trump.
Luke Collins
>Who cares what the VP thinks about gay marriage? >Do you even know what the VP does??
Marriage?
You need to check out Pence's record. It's about more than taking away one basic civil right from American citizens.
Some of us remember Trump's primary promises, like how he'd be "better for gays than Hillary" and then he goes full-Bachmann/Santorum after picking Pence.
Blake Davis
>Paul Manafort never left
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Jacob Jenkins
Trump said Pence was his first choice when he announced him so I believe him over some unnamed sources.
Josiah Gray
>15 posts by this ID
William Watson
>Pence plane had problems last week Trump's running a tight ship you see
Blake Miller
Fuck off vatnik shill
Samuel Ramirez
You have no idea how right you are. If anyone wants a massive red pill read this post.
It's also blessed by dubs.
Gavin Ross
So what, everyone likes Pence. Christie and Trump together remind me of a couple of greasy mobsters or union bosses. Pence is a good balance, Manafort picked well.
Evan Davis
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Jayden Watson
fantastic fucking shitpost lad
Jordan Lee
Great on TV, well spoken. Super Godfag though. Really hope he focuses(and keeps Trump focused) on important shit like the economy and ISIS and not meaningless stuff that hurts his feelings like gay marriage and abortion.
Juan Hughes
Record corrected. :3
Noah Robinson
>So what, everyone likes Pence.
No they don't.
Everyone who doesn't pay attention does, though — especially the fools who claim to be anti-establishment
You're either anti-establishment or you're pro-Pence.
Blake Baker
Can you imagine 8 years of cheeziepoof?
Cooper Allen
that's what I wanted to happen We all know who would have won