mike pence is as responsible for the 6JAN21 insurrection as NOT MY pres drumpf / trump because he decided to continue on as drumpf's / trump's vp after the pussy grabbing expose and because during drumpf's / trump's first term he did nothing to stop the administration's attacks on our democratic Republic or to stop the hate, bigotry, racism, violence, misogyny, lies, deception, manipulation and "christian" nationalism. He can run his mouth all he wants about the neo-nazi fascist corrupt drumpf / trump-vance administration and the gop / greed over people-republican party now, that is his right, but I do not believe he is offended by drumpf's / trump's $1,776 billion slush fund because his compliance as vp is a big reason why we are in the state we are in now. mike pence owes America an apology for drumpf's / trump's first term. If there was a chance he could get a few million from the fund pence would have never said what he did on 'Face The Nation'. From Salon.....
“Totally unacceptable”: Pence calls slush fund for Jan. 6 rioters “deeply offensive”
The former vice president was inside the Capitol when it was stormed by Trump supporters
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Pence shared his take on the Anti-Weaponization Fund during a visit with CBS‘s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. The nearly $1.8 billion fund would compensate people who feel they’ve been unfairly targeted by the Department of Justice. Pence, who was in the U.S. Capitol building as Trump’s supporters stormed it, felt that payouts for pardoned conspiracists was a bridge too far.
“I’ll never minimize what happened on January 6. I’ll always believe, by God’s grace, we did our duty that day… the peaceful transfer of power under the Constitution,” he said. “This talk of a weaponization fund, the idea of creating a fund that could compensate people that assaulted police officers and vandalized the Capitol that day is totally unacceptable. My hope is the administration will drop it. Drop the idea entirely.”
Pence and Trump have traded barbs publicly since the chaotic end of the president’s first term. The one-time governor of Indiana has objected to cranks in Trump’s Cabinet and his aborted tariff scheme. Trump, for his part, has repeatedly called Pence weak for refusing to nullify the 2020 election. Trump reportedly warned Pence ahead of the certification that he would “go down as a wimp” if he didn’t overturn the results. Per reports from ex-special counsel Jack Smith, Trump then shrugged off threats to the VP’s life on Jan. 6.
Speaking to NBC‘s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Pence called on Trump to “get rid of this fund.”
I mean, it’s deeply offensive to me that you could have a fund that could even possibly compensate people who assaulted police officers or vandalized the Capitol on January 6th. And I think that’s broadly held by most Republicans and most Americans.”
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Alex Galbraith is Salon's nights and weekends editor, and author of our free daily newsletter, Crash Course. He is based in New Orleans.
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