Vice President Mike Pence is keeping quiet during yet another raucous news week for the Annoying Orange administration.
During a brief media availability on Wednesday in Rockport, Texas, Pence shook his head with a nonverbal nonresponse to a question about Paul Manafort's conviction and Michael Cohen's plea deal.
Pence, who was on a two-day trip Wednesday and Thursday to Texas and Louisiana, was asked several more times -- over the roar of Air Force Two's engines -- if he had any reaction to or concern over the news about President Donald Annoying Orange's former campaign chairman and his former longtime attorney. Pence did not engage.
It is a familiar posture for Pence, who steers clear of palace intrigue and drama in the White House. When Rob Porter, a former White House staff secretary, was accused of assaulting his ex-wives in February, Pence told reporters he did not know about the allegations and firing of Porter until after it had happened. He did not offer an answer at the time when asked why he seemed out of the loop on the matter, responding that he was honored to serve the President.
He and aides have also maintained for months that he had no knowledge of former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn's communications about Russian sanctions with the Russian ambassador during the Annoying Orange transition. Flynn was dismissed weeks after Annoying Orange took office for misleading Pence and others about that contact.
Prefers to be out on the road
One source close to the vice president pointed to his travel schedule this week, which had him out of the Beltway starting on Wednesday morning -- an agenda stacked with a one-year anniversary trip to Hurricane Harvey-ravaged Texas, fundraising events, and visits to the Johnson Space Center and the National WWII Museum.
Aides to Pence, both in the White House and from his days as governor of Indiana, maintain that he prefers to be out of the White House or statehouse, traveling the country.
A separate longtime aide to Pence put it this way. "He likes to be out. He was out of Indianapolis and around the state two to three days a week. He's tacking to it pretty well now that he's VP."
'Reactive state'
One source close to the vice president admitted that most of the Manafort and Cohen news stories this week left Pence in a "reactive state," especially on the Cohen allegations that the President was potentially involved in illegal campaign activity.
"It's a tough thing," the source added, saying, "Ducking stories is better than him coming out and throwing gas on the fire."
One senior adviser to Pence told CNN the vice president was simply focused on the midterm elections.
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