Pence is lawyering up. Wonder why? Ideas?

[yellowcanine]

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/06/vice-president-pence-lawyers-up/

[dchill]

1. He's in it up to his lowbrows with the Russkies.

[sandensea]

2. Because he knows sharing a jail cell with Cheeto would go something like this:

[angrychair]

3. Could have something to do with

That letter sent to Pence in November of 2016 and Pence than lying about it repeatedly:

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. One reasonable guess is that he anticipates that at some point

Trump will throw him under the bus, like Nixon did with Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Dean, and he wants to have solid legal advice before that happens. It's also very possible that he knows more than he claims to know, and realizes that this might come out in the wash in the course of Mueller's investigation.

[kentuck]

5. I think he knows that Michael Flynn has already talked...

..and he let it be known that Mike Pence knew all along what was happening. He wasn't fired because he lied to Mike Pence. He was fired because he was considered too much of a liability to continue in his position.

[CentralMass]

6. No, but we can only hope it involves an indictable or impeachable offense.

I susoect thst there has been a lot of Russian $$ passed around as well.

[C_U_L8R]

7. The question may be... who isn't lawyering up?

Either way, Pence can't stop humming 'hail to the chief'
and it's making Trumpie nervous

[canetoad]

8. Apparently, most of the White House staff!

On Kasowitz:

"He told aides gathered in one meeting who had asked whether it was time to hire private lawyers that it was not yet necessary, according to another person with direct knowledge."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/us/politics/trump-lawyer-marc-kasowitz.html?_r=0

[C_U_L8R]

9. That was the world's worst legal advice

I think some here were saying it was highly unethitical

[nkpolitics1212]

10. Is Pence Trump's Spiro?

Trump is Pence's Dick?

[MLAA]

11. After all his sanctimonious fuckery, Jesus told him he is on his own? N/T

[58Sunliner]

12. Cause he's dirty.

[diva77]

13. Using the expression "this is not normal" is not strong enough

as was stated at the end of the motherjones article

I'm trying to think of an expression that would better describe what's going on --