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Ever wondered why Pence became VP? Who picked Trump's team? (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Apr 2017
OP
Manafort made key intervention to push Pence on tRump instead of Christie. Dunno Koch conx Manafort?
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2017
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,013 posts)1. Manafort made key intervention to push Pence on tRump instead of Christie. Dunno Koch conx Manafort?
get the red out
(13,467 posts)2. Religious right?
I figured it was throwing a bone to the Christo-Fascists?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)3. I figured
that Donnie knew his sordid past was not going to go over well with the fundie right, so he found himself a dyed in the wool christofascist theocrat.
Seems I heard Donnie has not set foot in a church since he took office.
world wide wally
(21,748 posts)4. Sure he has... At St Mar a Lagos
lapfog_1
(29,210 posts)5. The even more insane and rich Mercers
picked many of the Trumpanistas.
Kellyanne, Spice boy, Bannon, etc
not to mention Trump.
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)6. Manafort picked Pence
Trump was ready to name Chris Christy but Manafort manuevered him into lunch with Pence to delay the announcement and then let Trump think he had changed his mind.
So easily manipulated.