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Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner
"Pence Thinks God Wants Him to Be President After Trump Scandals
Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio told CNN on Tuesday that Vice President Mike Pence believes he is on a mission from God — to become president...
D’Antonio claimed that Pence is preparing himself to take over as president should Trump’s scandals cause him to leave office.
... “Absolutely everything Mike Pence does is oriented toward him becoming president. His decision to accept Donald Trump’s offer to be his running mate — it even goes back much further. By the time he had left high school, he had decided that he was going to be president of the United States… He thought God was calling him to, now, be vice president and function as a president-in-waiting.”
... “We see Donald Trump in this huge crisis, this rolling chaos,” D’Antonio said. “And I think, with every day, Mike Pence imagines he’s one day closer to the Oval Office.”
CNN host John Berman asked D’Antonio if he thinks that the vice president is scheming and manipulating in order to get to the Oval Office at Trump’s expense.
“Oh, I think yes,” he replied. “I think he’s positioning himself to be the normal guy — the guy you can trust.”
D’Antonio gave the CNN interview promoting his new book — “The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence” he wrote with Peter Eisner.
In the book the authors write that the vice president’s steady rise in politics through the years has been carefully calculated.
They contrast Pence’s career with that of Donald Trump, and also compare the different ways they use mass media.
For example, Pence used to have a radio show in Indiana and jokingly says that he is “Rush Limbaugh on decaf.”
The book calls Pence a “replacement president,” in that he often has gone to events instead of the president, such as his trips this year to Israel and South Korea where he presided over historically important events.
Because of the vice president’s strong political connections to the religious right and his pull with powerful Christian and right-wing fundraising groups, D’Antonio and Eisner call Pence a “shadow president.
As to whether or not God wants to make Mike Pence president, that remains to be seen.
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"A Pulitzer-Prize winning writer of books, articles, and original stories for film, Michael D’Antonio has published more than a dozen books, including Never Enough, a 2015 biography of presidential candidate and billionaire businessman Donald Trump. Described variously as “luminous,” “captivating,” “momentous” and “meticulous” Michael’s work is renowned for its clarity, balance, and thoroughness.
... Before becoming a full-time author, Michael worked as a journalist in New York, Washington, and Maine. He has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, The Times of London Magazine, Discover, Sports Illustrated, The Los Angeles Times Magazine and many others.
He has received numerous awards including the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, shared with a team at Newsday that explored the medical, legal, and ethical issues surrounding the Baby Jane Doe case ... "
Peter Eisner, an award-winning foreign correspondent, has been an editor and reporter at the Washington Post, Newsday and the Associated Press. Eisner was correspondent and consulting producer at the PBS programs Newshour Weekend and World Focus and was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award in 2010.
Eisner served as deputy foreign editor and Washington, D.C, political editor with the Washington Post from 2003-2007. Prior to that he was foreign editor and senior foreign correspondent of Newsday, and received the InterAmerican Press Association Award for distinguished reporting on drug trafficking in Latin America. He was a bureau chief and correspondent for The Associated Press in the United States and Latin America. ...
From 1999 to 2001, Eisner was the managing director of the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington-based watchdog organization. There he founded an online publication, publicI.org, which won national investigative reporting awards its first year of existence. He was an early member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Eisner’s 2013 book, THE POPE’S LAST CRUSADE (William Morrow), reveals the story of the lesser-known Pope Pius XI, who served before World War Two and engaged an American Jesuit journalist to help him oppose Hitler, Mussolini and anti-Semitism. His 2004 book, THE FREEDOM LINE, which won the Christopher Award, is the story of young resistance workers in occupied Europe who rescued downed Allied fighter pilots during World War II.
His other books include THE ITALIAN LETTER, with co-author Knut Royce, which traces fraudulent U.S. intelligence prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq; and America’s Prisoner, the memoirs of Manuel Antonio Noriega."
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