Trump's biographer Michael D'Antonio sat down with John Berman on CNN's New Day for a conversation that revolved mostly around Mike Pence, or the “shadow president” as D'Antonio calls him in the title of his new book. D'Antonio explained how Pence has quietly been building an infrastructure to ascend to the Oval Office should Trump be unable to run in 2020, and that Pence has tried to “bring Trump to Jesus…and save Trump's soul.”
Said D'Antonio: “Everything that Mike Pence does is oriented toward him becoming president…He thought that God was calling him to now be vice president and function as a president-in-waiting…So we see Donald Trump in this huge crisis, this rolling chaos, and I think with everyday, Mike Pence imagines he's one day closer to the Oval Office.”
