New reports suggest that Mike Pence walking out of a Colts game wasn’t knee jerk reaction to players kneeling during the anthem but instead, a well orchestrated, but expensive, media stunt.
According to new report by the Huffington Post, documents released by the Department of Hometown Security reveal that Pence’s early department from the Colts game in 2017 was completely pre-meditated.
Here is the break down of expenses per the Huffington Post…
According to the newly released — and heavily redacted — documents, the hotel rooms for Pence’s security team totaled $64,637.88, split between nine different properties, with the heftiest bill of $25,151 at the Marriott Indianapolis Downtown. A heavily redacted document titled “LRC Air/Rail Detail Report by Project Code” with a “report period” of Oct. 7 through Oct. 9 has an amount at the bottom of $8,877.91, presumably for certain travel expenses. Temporary walkways deployed in downtown Indianapolis add another $2,368.
The dates on the documents lend further credence to the notion this was a hastily planned stunt and not, as a Pence aide claimed to CNN, an event planned “for weeks” so that the vice president could watch a ceremony honoring former Colts quarterback Peyton Manning. The walkways, rented from an event company based out of Cincinnati, were ordered only the Friday before the game and a lodging addendum for the Crowne Plaza Indianapolis Airport was signed just three days before the game.
The White House had yet to respond to the report at the writing of this article.
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