3 Reasons Mike Pence Is (Probably) Gay

Contents:

• MIKE PENCE'S DGHTER AUDREY GETS ENGAGED 'GAY-CENTRIC' PROVCETOWN
• IRELAND’S GAY FORMER PRIME MISTER RELLS BRGG HIS PARTNER TO FAMO MEETG WH MIKE PENCE
• MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
• PENCE HOSTS OPENLY GAY IRISH PRIME MISTER AND HIS PARTNER FOR BREAKFAST
• “SHE REALLY HAS HAD A TOTAL MAKEOVER”: KAREN PENCE’S TRANSFORMATN IS A PLAY FOR 2024THE SEND LADY HAS EMERGED WH A NEW LOOK—“MORE OF A STATWOMAN,” SAYS A VETERAN REPUBLIN—AND A RENEWED MMENT TO THE TMP WHE HOE. SOURC CLOSE TO THE PENC SAY ’S ALL PART OF THEIR PLAN FOR A PRINTIAL MPAIGN: “THEY’RE PLAYG LONG BALL.”BY TOM LOBIANFEBARY 26, 2020BY HOLLIE ADAMS/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEQUIETLY, ALMOST IMPERCEPTIBLY, KAREN PENCE HAS BEGUN TO CHANGE. SHE’S GROWN OUT HER BOB AND STRAIGHT-ACROSS BANGS FAVOR OF LONGER LOCKS. HER BS-SUAL OUTFS HAVE BEEN TRAD UP FOR SLEEK PANTSUS AND STREAMLED SKIRTS. THE SHIFT HAS BEEN SUBTLE, BUT HASN’T GONE UNREMARKED. IN A VIO POSTED TO HER DGHTER CHARLOTTE PENCE’S INSTAGRAM ACUNT OCTOBER, PENCE APPEARS A DOUBLE-BREASTED DRS WH GOLD BUTTONS AND A CCHED BELT. “MRS. PENCE, I LOVE HOW YOU’VE UPDATED YOUR LOOK,” ONE MENTER WROTE. ANOTHER ADD, “MRS. PENCE LOOKS SO AMAZG. YOU N TELL THAT SHE LOST WEIGHT.”“SHE REALLY HAS HAD A TOTAL MAKEOVER, SHE LOOKS GREAT,” A PENCE FAY IEND TOLD ME. “SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE’S HAPPY, SHE RADIAT NFINCE.” A VETERAN REPUBLIN OPERATIVE CLOSE TO THE TMP WHE HOE SAID HE HADN’T NOTICED THE CHANGE UNTIL I BROUGHT UP, BUT ON REVIEW SAID LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS GROWG TO THE ROLE OF SEND LADY: “SHE HAD KD OF A SUBDUED UNTRY PRENCE BEFORE, NOW SHE HAS MORE OF A STATWOMAN LOOK.”PENCE’S SPOKWOMAN, KARA BROOKS, CLED REQUTS FOR MENT, AND OTHER PENCE ADVISERS, WHO PROTECT PENCE FIERCELY, CLED TO TALK ABOUT HER NEW IMAGE. BUT LONGTIME INDIANA REPUBLINS WHO’VE KNOWN THE PENC FOR S SAY ’S ALL PART OF THEIR LONG GAME TO W THE WHE HOE, PERHAPS 2024—A TOPIC OF CREASG SPECULATN AS MIKE PENCE TAK MORE MPAIGN-STYLE TRIPS TO BATTLEGROUND STAT, CLUDG A B TOUR OF MICHIGAN THIS WEEK. ONE LONGTIME TMP ADVISER TOLD ME PENCE’S N FOR THE WHE HOE STARTS THE DAY AFTER THE 2020 ELECTN.FROM THE START, KAREN WAS A MYSTERY TO DONALD TMP’S MPAIGN AND ADMISTRATN—A POTENTIALLY DANGERO UNKNOWN, TMPWORLD SOURC SAID. HER REPORTED RIGHTEO ANGER AT TMP OCTOBER 2016, WHEN THE WASHGTON POST PUBLISHED THE ACCS HOLLYWOOD TAPE, SEEMED TO NFIRM SHE WASN’T FULLY ON BOARD. ON ELECTN NIGHT, AFTER DISVERG TMP HAD WON, KAREN TWICE REBUFFED KISS OM MIKE. (IN A RARE TERVIEW WH USA TODAY LAST NOVEMBER, SHE SAID SHE DID NOT RELL THE CINTS.)ONCE SI THE ADMISTRATN, KAREN LARGELY KEPT TO HERSELF, MULTIPLE SOURC SAID, WORKG ON FAVORE ISSU SUCH AS ART THERAPY AND RELIEF FOR THE SPO OF ACTIVE ARY PERSONNEL AND VETERANS. THAT WOULDN’T BE ODD A NORMAL ADMISTRATN, BUT TMP MANDS PLETE LOYALTY, AND KAREN’S SECLN RERCED THE BELIEF AMONG SOME TMP ADVISERS THAT SHE WASN’T ON THEIR TEAM. TO TMPWORLD, THAT WAS PARTICULARLY DANGERO NSIRG HER ROLE AS UNOFFICIAL CHIEF ADVISER AND GATEKEEPER TO THE VICE PRINT. TMP’S ADVISERS GRADUALLY PICKED UP ON WHAT INDIANA POLIS HAD LONG KNOWN: THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONE PERSON MIKE’S NER CIRCLE, AND SHE ULD MAKE OR BREAK AN IA, MULTIPLE SOURC TOLD ME FOR MY MIKE PENCE BGRAPHY, PIETY AND POWER.MEANWHILE, THE PENC ADJTED TO BEG BACK D.C., THIS TIME THE LIMELIGHT. (THEIR FIRST 12 YEARS WASHGTON HAD BEEN SPENT A RELATIVE BUBBLE ARLGTON, VIRGIA, WHERE THEY RAISED THEIR THREE SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN.) WHEN BELTWAY POWER-WATCHERS CHATTERED ABOUT THE DISSONANCE BETWEEN AN EX-MOL FIRST LADY AND A MIDWTERN WIFE, THE PENC LARGELY TOOK STRI—UNTIL THE KG AND QUEEN OF JORDAN VISED THEM JUNE 2018. MIKE TWEETED PERFUNCTORY PHOTOS OF THEIR MEETG WH KG ABDULLAH II AND QUEEN RANIA, AND TWTER TROLLS LACED TO KAREN OVER HER OUTF: HER DRS WAS TOO SHORT, THEY SAID, AND WAS SNDALO TO SEE AN OLR WOMAN BARE HER SHOULRS.PENCE’S SULAR WORLD OF ADVISERS RPOND PRIVATE WH RIGHTEO DIGNATN, BUT PUBLICLY LET SLI, GIVG THE APPEARANCE BARELY FAZED THEM. AT THE TIME, NO LS THAN VANY FAIR ME TO KAREN’S FENSE. “THERE ARE MANY THGS WORTHY OF CRIQUE WHEN TO THE SEND FAY AND THE CURRENT ADMISTRATN, FASHN CHOIC CLUD,” WROTE ERIKA HARWOOD, LKG TO AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE VICE PRINT’S APPARENT XENOPHOBIA. “A WOMAN OVER 60 SHOWG HER SHOULRS, MANY MAY BE SURPRISED TO LEARN, IS NOT ONE OF THEM.”INTERNALLY, HOWEVER, THE CINT MARKED A TURNG POT, SOURC TOLD ME. WHEN SHE LEFT INDIANA, HER WARDROBE REMBLED WHAT AN AVERAGE WOMAN MIGHT PICK UP AT A PARTMENT STORE. (MIKE’S BRAND REMAS, PROUDLY, JOSEPH A. BANK SUS—JT A HANDFUL.) NOW, SHE’S DABBLG TAILORED OUTFS MORE LE WH THE BUTTONED-UP LOOK OF WASHGTON, AND SHE’S STAYG ACTIVE BY GOG FOR REGULAR NS. SOME INDIANA POLIS SPECULATED THAT ’S SIMPLY EASIER FOR KAREN TO FOC ON HERSELF AS SEND LADY THAN WHEN SHE WAS FIRST LADY INDIANA; SHE DON’T OK MEALS ANYMORE, AND HER KIDS HAVE MOSTLY LEFT THE NT, GIVG HER MORE PERSONAL TIME. BUT OTHER OBSERVERS NOTED THAT SHE WILL BE UNR PRSURE TO FE HERSELF TO THE PUBLIC IF HER HBAND PLANS TO N FOR PRINT 2024, AND THE DAILY DISTRACTN OF TMP’S RANGEMENT HAS PROVID THE PERFECT SMOKCREEN BEHD WHICH TO START THE PROCS.MOST POPULARMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYON SEPTEMBER 21—THREE DAYS BEFORE THE PUBLITN OF MY BOOK—KAREN UNVEILED A NEW TWTER ACUNT, AND A VIO MSAGE SAYG SHE WAS READY TO STAND FIRMLY BEHD TMP HIS REELECTN BID. HERE, HER NEW LOOK WAS NOTABLE: AN UNRSTATED BLACK DRS AND PEARLS, WHILE MAKG A DIRECT APPEAL TO THE MERA TO VOTE TMP. THE MOVE HAD THE EFFECT OF SILENCG HOSTILE FACTNS THE WHE HOE, WHO HAD FEARED THAT WHILE MIKE ULD LGH OFF TMP’S FOUL MOUTH AND PHILANRG, KAREN STILL ME OFF LIKE A “SLD,” ONE WASHGTON REPUBLIN NOTED. JARED KHNER AND IVANKA TMP HAD BEEN FLOATG THE IA OF REPLACG MIKE ON THE TICKET FOR A FEW MONTHS (SOMETHG THEY NY), AND MY BOOK TAILED NEW RMATN ABOUT KAREN’S POWERFUL ROLE MIKE’S LIFE THAT EVEN TMP’S VETTG TEAM HADN’T PICKED UP ON—FOR STANCE, HER HIDN HAND DRIVG AN EXPANSN OF MEDIID WHILE MIKE WAS ERNOR. BUT A FEW DAYS LATER, HOE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI ANNOUNCED A FORMAL IMPEACHMENT VTIGATN TO TMP, AND SUDNLY THE CHATTER OF REMOVG PENCE OM THE TICKET SEEMED NOT JT TRIVIAL, BUT PERHAPS EVEN SUICIDAL, WH NGRSNAL VTIGATORS BEARG DOWN.POLIL SPO HAVE OFTEN GONE THROUGH REFNS, PERHAPS NONE MORE FAMO THAN THE 1992 EFFORT TO REMAKE HILLARY CLTON’S IMAGE OM ONE OF REER WOMAN TO SOMETHG MORE FAY-ORIENTED. IRONILLY, KAREN HAS HAD TO MOVE THE OTHER WAY, TOWARD AN IMAGE THAT FEELS MORE MORN. ONE VETERAN STRATEGIST OF MULTIPLE REPUBLIN WHE HO NOTED THAT THE WASHGTON ESPHERE IS TOUGH FOR ANY SEND LADY, BUT PECIALLY SO FOR ONE BEG NSTANTLY JUDGED AGAST MELANIA TMP. KAREN, THE STRATEGIST NOTED, IS JT STARTG TO FD HER FOOTG, BOTH THE ADMISTRATN AND ON THE MPAIGN TRAIL.AS PART OF HER EVOLUTN, LAST MAY, KAREN RAN A MI-MARATHON ALONG THE C&O NAL, WHICH NS OM JT OUTSI GEETOWN TO THE TONY SUBURBS OF WASHGTON, WH A YOUNG GAY UPLE WHO ARE IENDS WH THE PENCE KIDS AND HAVE BEE REGULARS AT FAY GET-TOGETHERS. (ONE HALF OF THE UPLE POSTED A PHOTO OF HIMSELF TO INSTAGRAM NNG THE RACE. HE DIDN’T RETURN A REQUT FOR MENT, AND KAREN’S OFFICE CLED TO MENT ON THE RACE.) A PENCE FAY IEND SAID SHE WAS GLAD TO JO THEM BUT DIDN’T WANT TO DRAW ATTENTN TO , PART FOR FEAR OF A BACKLASH AGAST THE UPLE THE LGBTQ MUNY. BUT ANOTHER REPUBLIN OPERATIVE SPECULATED WAS AS MUCH ABOUT PROTECTG THE GAY UPLE OM BLOWBACK ON THE LEFT AS WAS ABOUT PROTECTG MIKE AND KAREN OM BLOWBACK ON THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT.AT THE SAME TIME, KAREN HAS BEGUN TO DIAL UP HER VOLVEMENT THE PRINT’S MPAIGN, HOSTG A “WOMEN FOR TMP” EVENT LAST FALL AND MAKG MORE JOT APPEARANC WH MELANIA. WHEN ASKED BY USA TODAY IF THAT NSTUTED AN “EXPANSN OF HER MPAIGN ROLE,” SHE BSHED ASI THE QUTN: “THAT’S AN TERTG QUTN TO ME BEE I’VE BEEN MPAIGNG SCE 1987, SO ’S KD OF FUNNY FOR PEOPLE TO THK THAT I’M SUDNLY MPAIGNG. IT MAY HAVE THAT APPEARANCE, THOUGH, TO PEOPLE.” (IN FACT WAS AN UNUALLY NDID RPONSE; THE TIGHT CIRCLE OF PENCEWORLD RARELY TALKS OPENLY ABOUT KAREN’S POWER AND POLIL ACUMEN, WHICH SHE VELOPED NJOTLY WH HER HBAND OVER MORE THAN THREE S THE PUBLIC SPHERE.)AS I’VE REPORTED, THE PENC HAVE BEEN FOCED ON THE WHE HOE SCE NOVEMBER 2008, THE MOMENT AFTER THEN SENATOR BARACK OBAMA’S ELECTN, WHEN MIKE TLY UGHT FIRE ON THE RIGHT. THEIR ORIGAL PLAN JOG THE TMP TICKET, SOURC TOLD ME FOR MY BOOK, WAS TO N FOR THE REPUBLIN NOMATN 2020 WHEN TMP LOST 2016. THAT, OF URSE, DIDN’T HAPPEN, SO THE PENC’ WDOW WAS PHED TO 2024. SCE THE 2016 ELECTN, MIKE HAS MPAIGNED AND FUNDRAISED EXTENSIVELY FOR TMP, WHICH HAS THE DUAL BENEF OF GIVG HIM EXPOSURE AND VELOPG STRONGER TI WH REPUBLIN MEGA-DONORS WHO WILL CI WHO NS THE SUBSEQUENT ELECTN.ERGO THE TIMG FOR THE REVENTN OF KAREN, SAID ONE LONGTIME INDIANA REPUBLIN, IS IAL. IF THEY WAED UNTIL THE 2024 MPAIGN TO REVENT HER IMAGE, TOO MANY PEOPLE WOULD TAKE NOTICE. BUT NOW, WH THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY AND THE TMP MEDIA CIRC NNG FULL TILT, IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR A SOFT LNCH. THE INDIANA REPUBLIN NOTED THE PENC HAVE TIME AND SPACE TO MAKE MISTAK BEFORE THE HEAT OF THE SPOTLIGHT MELTS THEM. “THEY’RE PLAYG LONG BALL.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— AFTER ACQUTAL, TMP PLOTS REVENGE ON BOLTON AND OTHER IMPEACHMENT ENEMI— BEHD THE SCEN OF TMP’S SECRET BIRTHER IMPLOSN— WHY BERNIE’S MSAGE AND MEDIA MACHE ULD BE POTENT AGAST TMP— WH ACCED WIFE-MURRER FOTIS DULOS ON LIFE SUPPORT, A LOOK SI THE GRIM END OF A PERFECT UPLE— THE HEDGE FUND VAMPIRE THAT BLEEDS NEWSPAPERS DRY NOW HAS THE CHIGO TRIBUNE BY THE THROAT— THE MOST RANGED MOMENTS OM TMP’S POST-ACQUTAL PRS NFERENCE— FROM THE ARCHIVE: IF DONALD TMP IS THE POLIL EQUIVALENT OF A PATHOGEN, WHO’S RPONSIBLE FOR LETTG HIM WREAK HAVOC THE NATNAL BLOODSTREAM?LOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HIVE NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.TOM LOBIAN
• MIKE PENCE SAID THE 1990S THAT BEG GAY WAS 'A CHOICE' OR A 'LEARNED BEHAVR,' BUT THE WHE HOE SAYS HE ISN'T 'ANTI-GAY'
• WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GOV. MIKE PENCE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS
• THE TE STORY BEHD THE FAKE ‘GAY MIKE PENCE' MEME

MIKE PENCE'S DGHTER AUDREY GETS ENGAGED 'GAY-CENTRIC' PROVCETOWN

For years, this photo has circulated onle wh ptns claimg that documents Pence's "gay past.

IRELAND’S GAY FORMER PRIME MISTER RELLS BRGG HIS PARTNER TO FAMO MEETG WH MIKE PENCE

In November 2016, a photograph purportedly showg a young Mike Pence wh his cht exposed was circulated on social media along wh the claim that documented the vice print's "gay past":. Several stori have also appeared ncerng Mike Pence and his support of "nversn therapy" for gay people.

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But people are speculatg that he may not be too happy about the fact that the proposal om her llege boyiend, Daniel Tomanelli, took place the “gay-centric” town of Provcetown, Pence alongsi her father, Vice Print Mike Pence, and mother, Karen Pence. I’m glad you’re fally g around, ” one person wrote, while another add, “You did one of the most famo Gay rort towns the entire world!

MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE

”“I’m thrilled that your dad will have to know that you got engaged the most statistilly gay small town Ameri, ” someone mented.

”How mad are Mike Pence and Mother that their dghter got engaged one of the most well known gay centric towns Ameri. ”Read more om Yahoo Liftyle:• Parents outraged at first-gra teacher’s cisn to read book about gay bunni to stunts • Chelsea Clton slams Print Tmp’s ’embrace of whe natnalism & anti-Semic & Islamophobic hate’ • Owner of Texas gay club unr fire for attendg Tmp rally: ‘Trash’Follow on Instagram, Facebook and Twter for nonstop spiratn livered h to your feed, every day.

Former Vice Print Mike Pence told stunts at the Universy of Virgia that any gay child he fathered would be ments me rponse to a qutn om a stunt about what Pence would say to a child who me out as gay to him. After cricism om the bs muny, Pence signed an amendment to the law tend to protect gays and lbians. Read More: Donald Tmp Nam Veep Pick on Twter Here are some of the statements and posns Pence had has related to LGBT issu: He said gay upl signaled ‘societal llapse’ In 2006, as head of the Republin Study Commtee, a group of the 100 most-nservative Hoe members, Pence rose support of a nstutnal amendment that would have fed marriage as between a man and a woman.

PENCE HOSTS OPENLY GAY IRISH PRIME MISTER AND HIS PARTNER FOR BREAKFAST

” Pence also lled beg gay a choice and said keepg gays om marryg was not discrimatn, but an enforcement of “God’s ia.

“SHE REALLY HAS HAD A TOTAL MAKEOVER”: KAREN PENCE’S TRANSFORMATN IS A PLAY FOR 2024THE SEND LADY HAS EMERGED WH A NEW LOOK—“MORE OF A STATWOMAN,” SAYS A VETERAN REPUBLIN—AND A RENEWED MMENT TO THE TMP WHE HOE. SOURC CLOSE TO THE PENC SAY ’S ALL PART OF THEIR PLAN FOR A PRINTIAL MPAIGN: “THEY’RE PLAYG LONG BALL.”BY TOM LOBIANFEBARY 26, 2020BY HOLLIE ADAMS/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEQUIETLY, ALMOST IMPERCEPTIBLY, KAREN PENCE HAS BEGUN TO CHANGE. SHE’S GROWN OUT HER BOB AND STRAIGHT-ACROSS BANGS FAVOR OF LONGER LOCKS. HER BS-SUAL OUTFS HAVE BEEN TRAD UP FOR SLEEK PANTSUS AND STREAMLED SKIRTS. THE SHIFT HAS BEEN SUBTLE, BUT HASN’T GONE UNREMARKED. IN A VIO POSTED TO HER DGHTER CHARLOTTE PENCE’S INSTAGRAM ACUNT OCTOBER, PENCE APPEARS A DOUBLE-BREASTED DRS WH GOLD BUTTONS AND A CCHED BELT. “MRS. PENCE, I LOVE HOW YOU’VE UPDATED YOUR LOOK,” ONE MENTER WROTE. ANOTHER ADD, “MRS. PENCE LOOKS SO AMAZG. YOU N TELL THAT SHE LOST WEIGHT.”“SHE REALLY HAS HAD A TOTAL MAKEOVER, SHE LOOKS GREAT,” A PENCE FAY IEND TOLD ME. “SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE’S HAPPY, SHE RADIAT NFINCE.” A VETERAN REPUBLIN OPERATIVE CLOSE TO THE TMP WHE HOE SAID HE HADN’T NOTICED THE CHANGE UNTIL I BROUGHT UP, BUT ON REVIEW SAID LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS GROWG TO THE ROLE OF SEND LADY: “SHE HAD KD OF A SUBDUED UNTRY PRENCE BEFORE, NOW SHE HAS MORE OF A STATWOMAN LOOK.”PENCE’S SPOKWOMAN, KARA BROOKS, CLED REQUTS FOR MENT, AND OTHER PENCE ADVISERS, WHO PROTECT PENCE FIERCELY, CLED TO TALK ABOUT HER NEW IMAGE. BUT LONGTIME INDIANA REPUBLINS WHO’VE KNOWN THE PENC FOR S SAY ’S ALL PART OF THEIR LONG GAME TO W THE WHE HOE, PERHAPS 2024—A TOPIC OF CREASG SPECULATN AS MIKE PENCE TAK MORE MPAIGN-STYLE TRIPS TO BATTLEGROUND STAT, CLUDG A B TOUR OF MICHIGAN THIS WEEK. ONE LONGTIME TMP ADVISER TOLD ME PENCE’S N FOR THE WHE HOE STARTS THE DAY AFTER THE 2020 ELECTN.FROM THE START, KAREN WAS A MYSTERY TO DONALD TMP’S MPAIGN AND ADMISTRATN—A POTENTIALLY DANGERO UNKNOWN, TMPWORLD SOURC SAID. HER REPORTED RIGHTEO ANGER AT TMP OCTOBER 2016, WHEN THE WASHGTON POST PUBLISHED THE ACCS HOLLYWOOD TAPE, SEEMED TO NFIRM SHE WASN’T FULLY ON BOARD. ON ELECTN NIGHT, AFTER DISVERG TMP HAD WON, KAREN TWICE REBUFFED KISS OM MIKE. (IN A RARE TERVIEW WH USA TODAY LAST NOVEMBER, SHE SAID SHE DID NOT RELL THE CINTS.)ONCE SI THE ADMISTRATN, KAREN LARGELY KEPT TO HERSELF, MULTIPLE SOURC SAID, WORKG ON FAVORE ISSU SUCH AS ART THERAPY AND RELIEF FOR THE SPO OF ACTIVE ARY PERSONNEL AND VETERANS. THAT WOULDN’T BE ODD A NORMAL ADMISTRATN, BUT TMP MANDS PLETE LOYALTY, AND KAREN’S SECLN RERCED THE BELIEF AMONG SOME TMP ADVISERS THAT SHE WASN’T ON THEIR TEAM. TO TMPWORLD, THAT WAS PARTICULARLY DANGERO NSIRG HER ROLE AS UNOFFICIAL CHIEF ADVISER AND GATEKEEPER TO THE VICE PRINT. TMP’S ADVISERS GRADUALLY PICKED UP ON WHAT INDIANA POLIS HAD LONG KNOWN: THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONE PERSON MIKE’S NER CIRCLE, AND SHE ULD MAKE OR BREAK AN IA, MULTIPLE SOURC TOLD ME FOR MY MIKE PENCE BGRAPHY, PIETY AND POWER.MEANWHILE, THE PENC ADJTED TO BEG BACK D.C., THIS TIME THE LIMELIGHT. (THEIR FIRST 12 YEARS WASHGTON HAD BEEN SPENT A RELATIVE BUBBLE ARLGTON, VIRGIA, WHERE THEY RAISED THEIR THREE SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN.) WHEN BELTWAY POWER-WATCHERS CHATTERED ABOUT THE DISSONANCE BETWEEN AN EX-MOL FIRST LADY AND A MIDWTERN WIFE, THE PENC LARGELY TOOK STRI—UNTIL THE KG AND QUEEN OF JORDAN VISED THEM JUNE 2018. MIKE TWEETED PERFUNCTORY PHOTOS OF THEIR MEETG WH KG ABDULLAH II AND QUEEN RANIA, AND TWTER TROLLS LACED TO KAREN OVER HER OUTF: HER DRS WAS TOO SHORT, THEY SAID, AND WAS SNDALO TO SEE AN OLR WOMAN BARE HER SHOULRS.PENCE’S SULAR WORLD OF ADVISERS RPOND PRIVATE WH RIGHTEO DIGNATN, BUT PUBLICLY LET SLI, GIVG THE APPEARANCE BARELY FAZED THEM. AT THE TIME, NO LS THAN VANY FAIR ME TO KAREN’S FENSE. “THERE ARE MANY THGS WORTHY OF CRIQUE WHEN TO THE SEND FAY AND THE CURRENT ADMISTRATN, FASHN CHOIC CLUD,” WROTE ERIKA HARWOOD, LKG TO AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE VICE PRINT’S APPARENT XENOPHOBIA. “A WOMAN OVER 60 SHOWG HER SHOULRS, MANY MAY BE SURPRISED TO LEARN, IS NOT ONE OF THEM.”INTERNALLY, HOWEVER, THE CINT MARKED A TURNG POT, SOURC TOLD ME. WHEN SHE LEFT INDIANA, HER WARDROBE REMBLED WHAT AN AVERAGE WOMAN MIGHT PICK UP AT A PARTMENT STORE. (MIKE’S BRAND REMAS, PROUDLY, JOSEPH A. BANK SUS—JT A HANDFUL.) NOW, SHE’S DABBLG TAILORED OUTFS MORE LE WH THE BUTTONED-UP LOOK OF WASHGTON, AND SHE’S STAYG ACTIVE BY GOG FOR REGULAR NS. SOME INDIANA POLIS SPECULATED THAT ’S SIMPLY EASIER FOR KAREN TO FOC ON HERSELF AS SEND LADY THAN WHEN SHE WAS FIRST LADY INDIANA; SHE DON’T OK MEALS ANYMORE, AND HER KIDS HAVE MOSTLY LEFT THE NT, GIVG HER MORE PERSONAL TIME. BUT OTHER OBSERVERS NOTED THAT SHE WILL BE UNR PRSURE TO FE HERSELF TO THE PUBLIC IF HER HBAND PLANS TO N FOR PRINT 2024, AND THE DAILY DISTRACTN OF TMP’S RANGEMENT HAS PROVID THE PERFECT SMOKCREEN BEHD WHICH TO START THE PROCS.MOST POPULARMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYON SEPTEMBER 21—THREE DAYS BEFORE THE PUBLITN OF MY BOOK—KAREN UNVEILED A NEW TWTER ACUNT, AND A VIO MSAGE SAYG SHE WAS READY TO STAND FIRMLY BEHD TMP HIS REELECTN BID. HERE, HER NEW LOOK WAS NOTABLE: AN UNRSTATED BLACK DRS AND PEARLS, WHILE MAKG A DIRECT APPEAL TO THE MERA TO VOTE TMP. THE MOVE HAD THE EFFECT OF SILENCG HOSTILE FACTNS THE WHE HOE, WHO HAD FEARED THAT WHILE MIKE ULD LGH OFF TMP’S FOUL MOUTH AND PHILANRG, KAREN STILL ME OFF LIKE A “SLD,” ONE WASHGTON REPUBLIN NOTED. JARED KHNER AND IVANKA TMP HAD BEEN FLOATG THE IA OF REPLACG MIKE ON THE TICKET FOR A FEW MONTHS (SOMETHG THEY NY), AND MY BOOK TAILED NEW RMATN ABOUT KAREN’S POWERFUL ROLE MIKE’S LIFE THAT EVEN TMP’S VETTG TEAM HADN’T PICKED UP ON—FOR STANCE, HER HIDN HAND DRIVG AN EXPANSN OF MEDIID WHILE MIKE WAS ERNOR. BUT A FEW DAYS LATER, HOE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI ANNOUNCED A FORMAL IMPEACHMENT VTIGATN TO TMP, AND SUDNLY THE CHATTER OF REMOVG PENCE OM THE TICKET SEEMED NOT JT TRIVIAL, BUT PERHAPS EVEN SUICIDAL, WH NGRSNAL VTIGATORS BEARG DOWN.POLIL SPO HAVE OFTEN GONE THROUGH REFNS, PERHAPS NONE MORE FAMO THAN THE 1992 EFFORT TO REMAKE HILLARY CLTON’S IMAGE OM ONE OF REER WOMAN TO SOMETHG MORE FAY-ORIENTED. IRONILLY, KAREN HAS HAD TO MOVE THE OTHER WAY, TOWARD AN IMAGE THAT FEELS MORE MORN. ONE VETERAN STRATEGIST OF MULTIPLE REPUBLIN WHE HO NOTED THAT THE WASHGTON ESPHERE IS TOUGH FOR ANY SEND LADY, BUT PECIALLY SO FOR ONE BEG NSTANTLY JUDGED AGAST MELANIA TMP. KAREN, THE STRATEGIST NOTED, IS JT STARTG TO FD HER FOOTG, BOTH THE ADMISTRATN AND ON THE MPAIGN TRAIL.AS PART OF HER EVOLUTN, LAST MAY, KAREN RAN A MI-MARATHON ALONG THE C&O NAL, WHICH NS OM JT OUTSI GEETOWN TO THE TONY SUBURBS OF WASHGTON, WH A YOUNG GAY UPLE WHO ARE IENDS WH THE PENCE KIDS AND HAVE BEE REGULARS AT FAY GET-TOGETHERS. (ONE HALF OF THE UPLE POSTED A PHOTO OF HIMSELF TO INSTAGRAM NNG THE RACE. HE DIDN’T RETURN A REQUT FOR MENT, AND KAREN’S OFFICE CLED TO MENT ON THE RACE.) A PENCE FAY IEND SAID SHE WAS GLAD TO JO THEM BUT DIDN’T WANT TO DRAW ATTENTN TO , PART FOR FEAR OF A BACKLASH AGAST THE UPLE THE LGBTQ MUNY. BUT ANOTHER REPUBLIN OPERATIVE SPECULATED WAS AS MUCH ABOUT PROTECTG THE GAY UPLE OM BLOWBACK ON THE LEFT AS WAS ABOUT PROTECTG MIKE AND KAREN OM BLOWBACK ON THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT.AT THE SAME TIME, KAREN HAS BEGUN TO DIAL UP HER VOLVEMENT THE PRINT’S MPAIGN, HOSTG A “WOMEN FOR TMP” EVENT LAST FALL AND MAKG MORE JOT APPEARANC WH MELANIA. WHEN ASKED BY USA TODAY IF THAT NSTUTED AN “EXPANSN OF HER MPAIGN ROLE,” SHE BSHED ASI THE QUTN: “THAT’S AN TERTG QUTN TO ME BEE I’VE BEEN MPAIGNG SCE 1987, SO ’S KD OF FUNNY FOR PEOPLE TO THK THAT I’M SUDNLY MPAIGNG. IT MAY HAVE THAT APPEARANCE, THOUGH, TO PEOPLE.” (IN FACT WAS AN UNUALLY NDID RPONSE; THE TIGHT CIRCLE OF PENCEWORLD RARELY TALKS OPENLY ABOUT KAREN’S POWER AND POLIL ACUMEN, WHICH SHE VELOPED NJOTLY WH HER HBAND OVER MORE THAN THREE S THE PUBLIC SPHERE.)AS I’VE REPORTED, THE PENC HAVE BEEN FOCED ON THE WHE HOE SCE NOVEMBER 2008, THE MOMENT AFTER THEN SENATOR BARACK OBAMA’S ELECTN, WHEN MIKE TLY UGHT FIRE ON THE RIGHT. THEIR ORIGAL PLAN JOG THE TMP TICKET, SOURC TOLD ME FOR MY BOOK, WAS TO N FOR THE REPUBLIN NOMATN 2020 WHEN TMP LOST 2016. THAT, OF URSE, DIDN’T HAPPEN, SO THE PENC’ WDOW WAS PHED TO 2024. SCE THE 2016 ELECTN, MIKE HAS MPAIGNED AND FUNDRAISED EXTENSIVELY FOR TMP, WHICH HAS THE DUAL BENEF OF GIVG HIM EXPOSURE AND VELOPG STRONGER TI WH REPUBLIN MEGA-DONORS WHO WILL CI WHO NS THE SUBSEQUENT ELECTN.ERGO THE TIMG FOR THE REVENTN OF KAREN, SAID ONE LONGTIME INDIANA REPUBLIN, IS IAL. IF THEY WAED UNTIL THE 2024 MPAIGN TO REVENT HER IMAGE, TOO MANY PEOPLE WOULD TAKE NOTICE. BUT NOW, WH THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY AND THE TMP MEDIA CIRC NNG FULL TILT, IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR A SOFT LNCH. THE INDIANA REPUBLIN NOTED THE PENC HAVE TIME AND SPACE TO MAKE MISTAK BEFORE THE HEAT OF THE SPOTLIGHT MELTS THEM. “THEY’RE PLAYG LONG BALL.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— AFTER ACQUTAL, TMP PLOTS REVENGE ON BOLTON AND OTHER IMPEACHMENT ENEMI— BEHD THE SCEN OF TMP’S SECRET BIRTHER IMPLOSN— WHY BERNIE’S MSAGE AND MEDIA MACHE ULD BE POTENT AGAST TMP— WH ACCED WIFE-MURRER FOTIS DULOS ON LIFE SUPPORT, A LOOK SI THE GRIM END OF A PERFECT UPLE— THE HEDGE FUND VAMPIRE THAT BLEEDS NEWSPAPERS DRY NOW HAS THE CHIGO TRIBUNE BY THE THROAT— THE MOST RANGED MOMENTS OM TMP’S POST-ACQUTAL PRS NFERENCE— FROM THE ARCHIVE: IF DONALD TMP IS THE POLIL EQUIVALENT OF A PATHOGEN, WHO’S RPONSIBLE FOR LETTG HIM WREAK HAVOC THE NATNAL BLOODSTREAM?LOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HIVE NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.TOM LOBIAN

Read More: Why Donald Tmp Picked Mike Pence as Runng Mate He opposed the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Pence favored the longtime ary policy of not lettg soldiers openly intify as gay. Advote Vio TeamFebary 28 2018 4:37 PM ESTMarch 13 2019 12:50 AM ESTComedyHomophobiahomosexualLGBTMike PencePolicsLatt StoriNews.

“From some of the gay muny Ameri was, ‘Well done for nontg Vice Print Pence wh the realy of morn relatnships. The meetg between the gay uple and the Send Fay of the Uned Stat me right after Pence’s staff attempted to e the meetg to prove that he was more LGBTQ-iendly than believed. “I’ve sat at tabl wh people who would gladly ny me the right to marry, who openly support nversn therapy, and who adamantly believe beg gay is a choice, ” Chasten Buttigieg said of that.

MIKE PENCE SAID THE 1990S THAT BEG GAY WAS 'A CHOICE' OR A 'LEARNED BEHAVR,' BUT THE WHE HOE SAYS HE ISN'T 'ANTI-GAY'

Vice Print Mike Pence once argued that homosexualy was a choice durg his fight the early 1990s agast lol efforts Indiana to ban discrimatn based on sexual orientatn.

Pence’s opposn to LGBT equaly has long drawn the srn of gay rights activists and ma him a champn of the Relig Right.

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GOV. MIKE PENCE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS

But scty of Pence’s rerd on LGBT issu tensified recently when Whe Hoe Deputy prs secretary Judd Deere suggted last week a tweet that the vice print wasn’t anti-gay bee he was havg lunch wh the Irish prime mister, who is gay, and his partner durg a state vis.

The ltle-explored episo the 1990s, unearthed lol newspaper clippgs durg a eper KFile review of Pence’s rerd on LGBT issu, highlights an early wdow to the now-vice print’s public activism and views opposn of gay rights. Pence argued the 1990s that, unlike protectns for Ain Amerins, homosexuals choose or learn to be gay and was part of a “grassroots-generated movement for regnn of homosexual rights” natnwi.

THE TE STORY BEHD THE FAKE ‘GAY MIKE PENCE' MEME

“Once you intify homosexuals as a mory, then by fn they would need to be afford nstutnal protectn, ” Pence add. I do not choose whether I am a black Amerin … the great vast majory of the psychologil muny says homosexualy at a very mimum is a choice by the dividual, and at the maximum, is a learned behavr. The Amerin Psychologil Associatn said 1992 that data did not support the view that homosexualy was a choice and studi at the time the 1990s suggted homosexualy was blogil and geic.

The arguments ma the 1990s by Pence would echo those he later emphasized when he ran for Congrs 2000 when his platform protted extendg civil rights protectns to gay Amerins. But the 1990s ments show for the first time Pence llg homosexualy a choice and offer a clearer view to Pence’s view on gay Amerins at the time. Dignatg gay Amerins worthy of such protectns unr the law, Pence said, would open “a Pandora’s Box of legal rights and legal difficulti” and was part of grassroots movements by gay activists for creasg their rights.