Mike Pence will get nothing for his humiliation

Definitely not the presidency

Mike Pence.
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Vice President Mike Pence is the rare servant who pays his master.

This week he visited Ireland, where he stayed at one of President Trump's properties, the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel in Doonbeg. It is roughly 125 miles from Dublin, where Pence had meetings. This arrangement, which required a commute on Air Force Two from one side of the country to the other, made no sense logistically or financially. But it was Trump's "suggestion" and therefore "logical." Pence supposedly will pick up the tab for his family's expenditures, and American taxpayers will pay for the rest.

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Windsor Mann

Windsor Mann is the editor of The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism.