Mike Pence cancelled NH trip to avoid drug-dealing ex-Giants player: report

Vice President Mike Pence abruptly canceled a trip to New Hampshire earlier this month so he could avoid shaking hands with a former New York Giants player under investigation for allegedly dealing drugs in the state, a report said Monday.

Pence on July 2 suddenly scrapped a scheduled roundtable discussion on the opioid crisis at the Granite Recovery Center headquarters in Manchester, NH — but his staff and the White House have stayed mum about why.

According to Politico, had Pence gone to the event, he would likely have met ex-NFLer Jeff Hatch, who was at the time being probed by the Drug Enforcement Administration for moving more than $100,000 of fentanyl from Massachusetts to New Hampshire.

After the trip’s cancellation, conflicting reports surfaced about what happened but no specific reason was cited.

President Trump himself added to the mystery.

“You’ll know in about two weeks,” Trump told reporters July 5. “There was a very interesting problem that they had in New Hampshire I can’t tell you about it.”

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