Gabriel Sherman writes Wednesday at Vanity Fair that “they’re freaking out” at the White House as the Robert Mueller investigation nears its endgame (maybe) and President Trump is having meetings to determine whether or not Vice President Mike Pence should be jettisoned from the ticket in 2020.
But the ominous signs of Mueller’s progress have not completely overwhelmed other subplots. On Monday, Trump hosted a 2020 strategy meeting with a group of advisers. Among the topics discussed was whether Mike Pence should remain on the ticket, given the hurricane-force political headwinds Trump will face, as demonstrated by the midterms, a source briefed on the session told me. “They’re beginning to think about whether Mike Pence should be running again,” the source said, adding that the advisers presented Trump with new polling that shows Pence doesn’t expand Trump’s coalition. “He doesn’t detract from it, but he doesn’t add anything either,” the source said.
“They’re beginning to think about whether Mike Pence should be running again,” a source tells @gabrielsherman, adding that advisers presented Trump with new polling that shows Pence doesn’t expand Trump’s coalition https://t.co/MOMGBSxJzr
— Benjamin Landy (@Ben_Landy) December 5, 2018
Trump dumping Mike Pence is the mid-season cliffhanger that America longs for. https://t.co/HxsNKSBSmA
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) December 5, 2018
Fake news.
— Austin Ruse (@austinruse) December 5, 2018
Fake journalist.?
— politimom (@DawnCuny) December 5, 2018
Gabriel Sherman has no real sources.
— Bill David (@proust1974) December 5, 2018
stop reading gabriel sherman https://t.co/U7UWFopArf
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) December 5, 2018
one day i will go through all his columns and see what predictions made by his "sources" have turned out true, i don't suspect it will be very high
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) December 5, 2018
Please do that’s been my hunch as well.
— EdAsante (@EdAsante77) December 5, 2018
Calling him a serial fabulist is an insult to fabulists.
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) December 5, 2018
“They’re freaking out,” a former White House official told me" wow i wonder who this "former official" who appears in every single one of his articles is
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) December 5, 2018
Somehow he knew that Trump was “freaking out” about Christine Ford’s testimony on AF1 while the plane was still in the air with only a small WH group present…
— Bill David (@proust1974) December 5, 2018
We should know soon if that source briefed on the session was legit.
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FAKE NEWS: A misquote from Gabriel Sherman with Chris Hayes is making the rounds, and it's BAD https://t.co/0ofHNKKnB0
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 11, 2017
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