VP Pence Recalled to White House: Emergency? Diversion?

[MountainRaven]

The facts as we know them are that the VP was ordered to stay in/or return to Washington instead of flying to a speech somewhere. That is highly irregular and I don't think would be over something trivial, like payroll checks weren't signed or something.

I'm not finding anything that suggests that Pence was ordered to do anything.

What we know is that Pence cancelled a trip to New Hampshire and went to the White House.

A White House official said that this is neither related to either Trump or Pence's health nor is it related to national security.

Everything else, thus far, is speculation.

[Doc Safari]

Here's the story from AP. I'm "ass"uming AP is credible.

https://apnews.com/5bb92f50d9f64d46a0c26e78dc0eae44?

Vice President Mike Pence has abruptly canceled a planned trip to New Hampshire, but the White House and his office refuse to say why.

White House spokesman Judd Deere said only that, “Something came up and the VP needed to be in D.C.,” adding: “there is no cause for alarm.”

One senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the situation, said the issue was not national security-related. Another senior administration official said it was not related to any kind of health issue impacting Pence or President Donald Trump.

Pence had been scheduled to visit Manchester, New Hampshire, Tuesday to speak to and hear from patients at the Granite Recovery Center.

Pence’s plane never took off and he returned to the White House to meet with Trump.

Why are they refusing to say why? I read another source claiming we would "find out in a few weeks". So it's something important enough to cancel a scheduled flight but not important enough to tell us the reason? Something's not right.

[SomeOtherGuy]

Why are they refusing to say why? I read another source claiming we would "find out in a few weeks". So it's something important enough to cancel a scheduled flight but not important enough to tell us the reason? Something's not right.

This could be as mundane as Pence and Trump wanting to discuss how to exploit an apparent rift between Schumer and Pelosi, or some other purely political, sky-is-not-falling reason. There could be something about to surface regarding immigration, or RUSSIA!, or who knows what. Maybe Q is real and tomorrow is the day of mass arrests!

Russian subs have a terrible safety record but I would still expect Putin to respond. Whether the Putin and Pence flights have anything to do with each other is speculation. It's not crazy to think that unrelated matters could cause them to change flight plans around the same time without any connection.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

“VP’s office has already commented on this,” he told TPM. “Something came up and the VP needed to be in D.C. – there is no cause for alarm.”

I get alarmed when people say that there is no cause for alarm, but I can't tell you why. The only acceptable reason is a surprise birthday party, and that ain't it.

Please, please, please let it be that Trump is firing Pence. I like the guy, but he is useless now.

Please let it be RBG.. and he is needed as the tie breaker to bring back a resurrected Scalia in a 18 year olds body to the court....

[Doc Safari]

VP is needed in DC. Odd language. When is the VP actually ever needed for anything except to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate?

[SomeOtherGuy]

VP is needed in DC. Odd language. When is the VP actually ever needed for anything except to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate?

I don't watch C-SPAN, but wasn't there immigration-related legislation in the Senate as of yesterday?

[Sam]

Or could be a North Korean or Chinese payback for what we did with the cyber attack last week.

[chadbag]

Maybe this has something to do with it?

F-22s to Qatar

https://news.yahoo.com/us-deploys-f-...053626184.html

[rjacobs]

Maybe this has something to do with it?

F-22s to Qatar

https://news.yahoo.com/us-deploys-f-...053626184.html

That was a week ago or so that was announced...

[Hmac]