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Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at an anti-abortion rally near the Lincoln Memorial on June 24, 2023 in Washington, DC.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence raises $1.4 million in advance for publication of memoir detailing the events of January 6, 2021 and his refusal to bow to Donald Trump's demands to overturn the 2020 election results This has been revealed in new filings.
The “So Help Me God” funding from Simon & Schuster is one of the major sources of income listed in the company's financial disclosure report released Thursday. Pence is currently running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination against Trump and numerous other Republicans.
The filing also shows that Mr. Pence earns a significant amount of money from his speaking engagements, raising a total of $3.4 million in 32 speeches from January 2022 to the end of April this year. Mr. Pence announced his candidacy for the White House in early June.
Most lucrative deal: A $550,000 honorarium for an appearance at the World Summit underwritten by the World Peace Federation to be held in February 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. The group was founded by the late Reverend Sun Myung Moon, a Korean evangelist and businessman who founded the Unification Church, and his wife Hak Ja Han.
Pence called for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and pledged U.S. support for South Korea, Japan and “all allies for peace and security throughout the free world,” according to an online recording of the speech in Seoul. He also praised the conservative newspaper “The Washington Times,'' founded by Moon, calling it “a courageous voice for America's freedom.''
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A copy of Pence's memoir, “So Help Me God,” is seen during an event at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum on April 19, 2023, in Yorba Linda, California.
Other six-figure commitments range from an appearance at the American Fuel and Petroleum Manufacturing Industry Association in March 2022 to speaking to Northern California's Iranian American community in March 2023. He also reported payments to the university for 10 lectures. The costs were reportedly paid for by the Young Americas Foundation, which works to spread conservative ideas among young people.
Pence is vice president of Hoosier Heartland LLC, reports more than $1.8 million in business income from the company, and engages in speaking, writing and consulting, according to the filing. The company's customers were not disclosed.
The former vice president reported a salary of $381,000 from the company.
