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Donald Trump And His Two Vice Presidents: Horrible Mistreatment!

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Donald Trump is one of 10 Presidents who have had two Vice Presidents, while Franklin D. Roosevelt actually had THREE Vice Presidents in his 12 years and 39 days in the White House.

The list includes:

Thomas Jefferson—Aaron Burr and George Clinton

James Madison—George Clinton and Elbridge Gerry

Andrew Jackson—John C. Calhoun and Martin Van Buren

Abraham Lincoln—Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson

Ulysses S. Grant—Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson

Grover Cleveland—Thomas Hendricks and Adlai Stevenson I

William McKinley—Garret Hobart and Theodore Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt—John Nance Garner, Henry A. Wallace, and Harry Truman

Richard Nixon—Spiro Agnew and Gerald Ford

Donald Trump—Mike Pence and JD Vance

The relationships between these ten Presidents and their Vice Presidents was often difficult and controversial, particularly so with Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson; John C. Calhoun and Andrew Jackson; and John Nance Garner and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

But it is becoming clear that the relatonship between Mike Pence and Donald Trump was probably the worst imaginable, including Trump endangering Pence by inciting the January 6 US Capitol Insurrection, which included extremists mounting a noose to hang Pence if they had been able to reach him.

Additionally, it is clear that JD Vance has a nightmare scenario with Donald Trump, as he disagreed with the Iran War inception, and now is being used as a foil to be blamed if the supposed Memorandum of Understanding ending the war fails, as Trump has been undermining Vance since the day he took office as Trump’s second Vice President.

Vance is in a no win situation, as his boss, Donald Trump, is mercurial, and no one in their right mind would envy Vance being answerable to the unstable, corrupt, immoral President!

Jimmy Carter-Walter Mondale: The Most Intimate Team In White House History!

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Presidents and Vice Presidents often are an awkward pair, with the Vice President chosen for electoral and regional reasons, not because of friendship or familiarity before the Presidential term.

Most Vice Presidents are ignored by the Presidents they are serving, and some have even, actively, worked against the President’s interests.

Most Vice Presidents, historically, have not been even considered as possible successors.

Often, the connection between Presidents and Vice Presidents are considered like a “shotgun marriage”!

Examples of awkward combinations are Thomas Jefferson under John Adams; Aaron Burr under Thomas Jefferson; John C. Calhoun under both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; Charles Fairbanks under Thedodore Roosevelt; Thomas Marshall under Woodrow Wilson; Charles G. Dawes under Calvin Coolidge; John Nance Garner under Franklin D. Roosevelt; Lyndon B. Johnson under John F. Kennedy; Hubert Humphrey under Lyndon B. Johnson; Spiro Agnew under Richard Nixon; Dan Quayle under George H W Bush; and Mike Pence under Donald Trump.

The greatest and most intimate team was Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale, and their partnership lasted 45 plus years until Mondale died in April 2021. Carter made Mondale as close to a co-President as could be possible, as Mondale was in on every decision, and the two men and their wives were very close in office and for the 40 plus years of retirement together.

No other combinaton comes close, although Joe Biden under Barack Obama would rank second in closeness and intimacy.

Until the revelation of the personal scandals under Bill Clinton, Al Gore was also very close and intimate, but the Monica Lewinsky scandal created a barrier for the remainder of Clinton’s second term, causing Gore not to utilize Clinton in the 2000 Presidential race, a major factor in Gore’s defeat, despite winning the national popular vote over George W. Bush.

The extent of the closeness and intimacy of Kamala Harris with Joe Biden is not yet fully understood.

Donald Trump Had No Concern About The Threats To The Life Of Mike Pence!

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It is stunning and hard to fathom that a President would have no concern about the threats to the life of his Vice President.

Yes, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr did not get along.

Neither did John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun get along.

And also, Andrew Jackson and Calhoun were at odds.

But never has a President welcomed harm on his Vice President, as Donald Trump did toward Mike Pence on January 6, 2021!

He showed support for the lynching, the hanging, of Mike Pence!

This is incomprehensible, that any political leader would not be concerned, and loyal to those who work around him!

How could any decent human being, no matter what his political and ideological loyalties, support and continue to excuse Donald Trump for his lack of empathy, decency, compassion, toward even his own Vice President?

But Donald Trump has no regard for human life, and this will be exposed by the January 6 US House Committee, as it starts holding public hearings on this Thursday evening, June 9!

Donald Trump needs to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, as a seditionist, a traitor, a criminal, whose lust for power encouraged massive lawlessness and destruction at the US Capitol!

Historic Moment For Vice President To Turn Against President: Extremely Rare!

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Former Vice President Mike Pence has FINALLY stopped being a sycophant to Donald Trump, after being obsequious to the former President since his selection to be Vice President in the Summer of 2016.

Pence has been weak all along, but finally said he did his constitutional duty by counting the Electoral College votes in the Presidential Election of 2020, a ceremonial duty, with no power to challenge the official vote count.

This IS an historic moment, for a Vice President to turn against the President, extremely rare!

The only public times were Aaron Burr against Thomas Jefferson in 1801, after Burr created a constitutional crisis over whether he or Jefferson was to be President, due to a so called “tie’ in electoral votes; and John C. Calhoun against both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, the two Presidents he served as Vice President, over the issue of the protective tariff and states rights, secession, and nullification.

Also, but more veiled, not obvious publicly, Charles G. Dawes had disagreements with Calvin Coolidge: John Nance Garner broke with Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 as he sought to succeed him; Al Gore separated himself from Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky Scandal as Gore ran for President in 2000; and Dick Cheney had growing disagreements and a growing breach with George W. Bush in Bush’s second term after 2005.

Also, more veiled was Thomas Marshall not being informed about Woodrow Wilson’s health after his stroke; Lyndon B. Johnson being mistreated by Robert F. Kennedy under John F. Kennedy’s Presidency; and Hubert Humphrey forced to support the Vietnam War under Johnson after 1965, later stated as a very difficult time for Humphrey.