Vice President Pence has a growing credibility problem [View all]
By Aaron Blake May 18 at 1:14 PM
There are more than a few people who look at Vice President Pence and see President Pence — possibly sooner than later. For wistful Democrats, it would be the end result of President Trump stepping aside or being impeached; for wistful Republicans, some dream of a more serious, less error-prone Republican president actually succeeding at passing a conservative agenda.
But as The Post's Abby Phillip began documenting last week, Pence has hardly been immune from Trump's foibles and from saying untrue things about them. And now twice in the past week, his defenses of the White House he serves in have been pretty directly contradicted in ways that seriously call into question his credibility.
Below are three big instances in which Pence said something that turned out to be highly misleading at best and clearly false at worst, starting with the newest one.
1) Michael Flynn's status as a foreign agent for Turkey
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