Vice President Pence and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway were present for the meeting. Penn had the task of measuring public support for Clinton during that impeachment process and crafted the administration’s response to allegations of Clinton’s extramarital affair with the White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Democrats were quick to criticize Penn, a former pollster and top aide to the campaigns of Bill and Hillary Clinton. AD“All that bootlicking on Fox News finally paid off for Mark Penn,” David Axelrod, Obama’s senior adviser while he was president, tweeted of the news that Penn had visited Trump. “He’s finally a White House insider again!”ADThis is not the first time that one of the architects of Bill Clinton’s campaign and impeachment strategy has visited with Trump.

Source: Washington Post November 26, 2019 18:34 UTC