Mike Pence holds secret Koch Brothers meeting, may be plotting against Donald Trump

| 1:44 am EDT June 25, 2017
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Donald Trump has already proven himself the most dishonest person to ever hold the office of President of the United States, but his sidekick Mike Pence might not be far behind him in that regard – and in fact Pence may be plotting against Trump as we speak. Pence has been engaged in a mysterious bit of fundraising all on his own of late. And now that’s culminated in a meeting with one of the infamous Koch Brothers, which he lied about to try to keep it a secret.

Mike Pence used the cover of attending a banquet held by an anti-gay hate group as an excuse to fly to Colorado, but it turns out his real motivation for doing so was to meet with Charles Koch in secret. Pence’s team insisted the meeting wasn’t happening, and even lied to the The Hill about it in an attempt at keeping it secret (link). The Koch Brothers regularly fund the most extremist elements of the Republican Party, and Pence is as much of a bigoted extremist as they come, so there was no real reason for him to keep the meeting from the public – unless of course he was really trying to keep it from Donald Trump.

Earlier this month Pence launched his own Super PAC, an odd move considering he’s officially supposed to be Trump’s 2020 reelection running mate, and not running a campaign of his own. When he announced later in the month that he’d hired a high powered attorney to represent him in the Trump-Russia scandal, it instead pointed to the PAC perhaps being an attempt at covering his forthcoming legal bills. But his Koch meeting points to something else entirely.

The only way Mike Pence can be running for President in 2020 is if he’s already President, and that would require ousting Donald Trump. So Pence’s secret meeting with a top Republican donor raises the question of whether Pence might be planning to help the GOP oust Trump before his term is over. That might sound like a stretch to some, but the escalating saga of Pence’s secret fundraising efforts can’t be ignored. Whatever it is, he’s up to something, and he doesn’t seem to want Trump to figure it out. If you’re a regular reader, feel free to support Palmer Report