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Pence’s allegations about Hillary Clinton: A guide for the perplexed

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“Talk about accepting the outcome of the election. I must tell you, Senator, your party has spent the last three and a half years trying to overturn the results of the last election. It’s amazing. When Joe Biden was vice president of the United States, the FBI actually spied on President Trump and my campaign. I mean, there were documents released this week that the CIA actually made a referral to the FBI documenting that those allegations were coming from the Hillary Clinton campaign.” 

— Vice President Pence, in remarks during the vice-presidential debate with Sen. Kamala D. Harris, Oct. 7

If you are not a regular viewer of Fox News, these remarks by Pence during the debate might have seemed surprising.

After all, a special counsel appointed by President Trump’s Justice Department documentedthat the Russian government, at its highest levels, sought to influence the outcome of the 2016 election — and the Trump campaign was a willing recipient of that help. Moreover, a bipartisan report released in August by the Senate Intelligence Committee also concluded that the Russian government interfered in the election with the goal of electing Trump. Continue reading.

Pence Says All 50 States Reopening In ‘Responsible Manner.’ Fauci Says Otherwise.

The Wall Street Journal published the vice president’s propaganda about the coronavirus. Here’s what he got wrong.

Vice President Mike Pence painted a rosy ― and misleading ― portrait of the U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus and the current state of the crisis in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal.

In one section, Pence, whom President Donald Trump appointed in late February to lead the White House’s coronavirus task force, praised all 50 states for beginning to reopen in a “safe and responsible manner.”

But Dr. Anthony Fauci, the lead infectious disease expert on the task force, suggested that isn’t the case during an interview with NPR earlier Tuesday. Continue reading.