How do you know you're so useless that you're completely expendable? When you get shipped off to investigate a conspiracy theory so crazy it's already been demoted inside the White House and dismissed by your party's Senate majority leader. Nonetheless, Mike Pence is going to be Donald Trump's good little soldier anyway while Steve Bannon runs wild in the West Wing. Pence welcomed his role Monday in leading a useless commission on widespread voter fraud, Trump's latest pet project to prove that he's not the country's greatest presidential popular vote loser ever. Esme Cribb writes on Pence:
"At the very center of our democracy is the integrity of the vote, the one person, one vote principle, and it'll be my honor to lead that commission on behalf of the President and to look into that and give the American people the facts."
Trump was originally scheduled to sign an executive order in late January opening a Justice Department investigation into his unfounded claims that massive voter fraud cost him the popular vote in the 2016 election.
Trump still has not signed the order, and an unnamed senior official in Trump's administration told CNN that the probe was no longer "a top priority" for the President.
Sounds like the attorneys at the Justice Department said, surely you’re joking, right? Not even Mitch McConnell could feign support for such a useless endeavor, which Trump announced Sunday on Fox News and McConnell shot down the same day.
"Election fraud does occur," he told CNN's Jake Tapper. "There is no evidence that it occurred in such a significant number that would have changed the presidential election. And I don't think we ought to spend any federal money investigating that."