re: #21 Citizen K

The thing about the Ford comparison is…Ford became VP after Agnew fell on his sword and resigned. He wasn’t a factor when Watergate went down, leaving him with fairly clean hands by the time he became pres, right? Pence was right part of the campaign. There’s little chance that this happened without him knowing or being involved either. How do you rope in Trump without involving Pence in some way either? He’s easily complicit in some sense.

There’s a couple of ways this plays out. One is that Pence really didn’t know anything, which is possible but not probable, let alone likely. Maybe he was actually frozen out of the inner circle because Trumpsters believed him to be a shill of the GOP establishment they had been fighting.

The second way, assuming Ryan is still Speaker, is that either members of the House or members of the Senate decide, “oh, fuck that guy, we don’t want him as president.” That’s entirely plausible, even possible. I could see Democrats in the Senate going to Pence and saying something like “we have the votes to remove you, but in order to keep Ryan out of the office, you’re going to nominate Jerry Brown as your vice president - sell it as a unity ticket - and neither of you are running in 2020.”