{"id":23160,"date":"2023-04-23T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T22:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23160"},"modified":"2023-04-23T22:18:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T22:18:41","slug":"pense-pending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23160","title":{"rendered":"Pense pending&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pense-slogan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pense-slogan.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pense-slogan-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pense-slogan-768x504.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"660\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.21.24-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.21.24-PM.png 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.21.24-PM-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.21.24-PM-768x507.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Pense-refuses-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Pense-refuses-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Pense-refuses-1-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Pense-refuses-1-768x556.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"605\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pense-contract-with-devil.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pense-contract-with-devil.jpg 605w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pense-contract-with-devil-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mike Pence<\/strong>&nbsp;offered some insights into what he plans to tell Special Counsel&nbsp;<strong>Jack Smith<\/strong>&nbsp;about former President&nbsp;<strong>Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;conduct before the January 6th Capitol riot. The former vice president gave an interview to CBS\u2019&nbsp;<strong>Robert Costa<\/strong>&nbsp;that aired on Sunday April 23\/23 for&nbsp;<em>Face The Nation<\/em>. The conversation dealt in part with January 6th, so Costa turned to the fact that Pence will have to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/trump\/breaking-pence-ordered-to-testify-to-federal-grand-jury-about-conversations-with-trump-about-jan-6\/\">testify before a federal grand jury<\/a>&nbsp;about his conversations with Trump in the build-up to the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Pence decided earlier this month&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/05\/pence-testimony-jan-6-appeal-00090634\" target=\"_blank\">not to appeal<\/a>&nbsp;the court order compelling his testimony,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past, the former vice president has displayed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/cnns-wolf-blitzer-goes-hard-at-pence-over-jan-6-trump-criminal-probe-if-you-have-nothing-to-hide-why-not-testify\/\">notable reluctance<\/a>&nbsp;to testify against Trump, even with all of the president\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/its-striking-cnns-kaitlan-collins-and-pam-brown-shocked-trump-team-keeps-losing-most-every-executive-privilege-fight\/\">setbacks<\/a>&nbsp;for his claims to executive privilege.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pense-donald-toad-stormy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pense-donald-toad-stormy-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pense-donald-toad-stormy-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pense-donald-toad-stormy-1-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Trump-Pense-Tableau.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Trump-Pense-Tableau.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Trump-Pense-Tableau-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Trump-Pense-Tableau-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.30.37-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.30.37-PM.png 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.30.37-PM-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.30.37-PM-768x445.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Excerpted <\/strong>from The New Republic article  Alex Shephard&nbsp;&nbsp;\/<strong> June 22, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Pense is Useless<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The former vice president\u2019s refusal to address his former boss\u2019s attempted coup somehow manages to straddle the line between cowardice and opportunism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s a coward and an opportunist, and he sees only one way forward: kissing Donald Trump\u2019s ass while, every now and then, lightly calling out the fact that Trump tried to get him to steal the election (if not killed). This only adds to the increasingly tragic career of Mike Pence. He has the opportunity to salvage his reputation\u2014at least somewhat\u2014and perhaps take Trump down. Because he na\u00efvely believes he still might be president, he chooses not to. He will emerge from this gaining neither the things he wants nor the things he needs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Pale-prince-pense.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Pale-prince-pense.jpg 609w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Pale-prince-pense-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Excerpted&nbsp;<\/strong>from&nbsp;<em>Ideas&nbsp;<\/em>Atlantic article by David Frum&nbsp;<em>The Man Who Pretended Not to Notice&nbsp;<\/em>A fly landed on Mike Pence\u2019s head. And he did nothing. <strong>October 8, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Man Who Pretended Not to Notice<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<strong>We saw&nbsp;<\/strong>a weird moment when a fly landed on Pence\u2019s snow-white hair\u2014and the vice president did not react at all. No doubt, it\u2019s a conundrum, what to do in such a situation. If Pence had shooed the fly and the fly had refused to shoo, that would have been bad. So he did nothing. And that doing nothing somehow in one powerful visual moment concentrated everything. It symbolized the whole Pence vice presidency, the determined, willful refusal to acknowledge the most blaring and glaring negative realities. Through all of the scandals and the crimes and the disasters of the past four years, Mike Pence was the man who pretended not to notice. And now there was a fly on his head, and he pretended not to notice that too.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Court-Painter-pale-pense.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Court-Painter-pale-pense.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Court-Painter-pale-pense-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Court-Painter-pale-pense-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Court-Painter-Pale-prince.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Court-Painter-Pale-prince.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Court-Painter-Pale-prince-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Court-Painter-Pale-prince-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Click Links for previous Court Painter posts featuring Mike Pense<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=19958\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=19958(opens in a new tab)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14754\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14754(opens in a new tab)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.19.06-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.19.06-PM.png 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.19.06-PM-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.19.06-PM-768x533.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.23.17-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.23.17-PM.png 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.23.17-PM-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-07-at-3.23.17-PM-768x564.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Pense-Chess.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Pense-Chess.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Pense-Chess-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Pense-Chess-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Pence&nbsp;offered some insights into what he plans to tell Special Counsel&nbsp;Jack Smith&nbsp;about former President&nbsp;Donald Trump\u2019s&nbsp;conduct before the January 6th Capitol riot. The former vice president gave an interview to CBS\u2019&nbsp;Robert Costa&nbsp;that aired on Sunday April 23\/23 for&nbsp;Face The Nation. The conversation dealt in part with January 6th, so Costa turned to the fact that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pense pending&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23160"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23178,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23160\/revisions\/23178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}