Pence went there to troll, no doubt.
They knew his mere presence would, at minimum, cause a shit storm in the media. The cast confronting him was just extra fireworks. All a distraction from Trump appointing white supremacists and war mongers to his cabinet.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
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