Mike Pence Backs Up Trump: 'I Stand By The President'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By NICOLE LAFOND Published AUGUST 16, 2017 1:40 PM
Vice President Mike Pence is standing by President Trump in the wake of Trumps off-the-rails press conference in he assigned blame to both sides for violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.
What happened in Charlottesville was a tragedy and the President has been clear on this tragedy and so have I. I spoke at lengths about this heartbreaking situation on Sunday night in Colombia. And I stand by the President and I stand by those words, Pence said, speaking from Chile on Wednesday. He said he is planning to end his weeklong trip to Latin America early and return to the U.S. Thursday. Pence was originally scheduled to return to the U.S. on Friday.
Trump said Tuesday that the alt-right and the alt-left were to blame for the violence that broke out at a rally in Charlottesville, Va., when a self-proclaimed white supremacist allegedly drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters and killing one woman named Heather Heyer. The vice president said Wednesday our hearts are in Charlottesville with the family and friends who gathered to say farewell to a remarkable young woman.
Weve been praying, weve been praying for Gods comfort for her family and her friends and we are also praying in America, we will not allow the few to divide the many, he said. The strength of the United States of America is always strongest, as the President has said so eloquently, when we are united. Around our shared values and so it will always be.
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redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)burrowowl
(17,641 posts)AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)musette_sf
(10,201 posts)I don't share any values with Mullah Pence or Rump The Hun.
No one of conscience should share any values with these two criminals.
MBS
(9,688 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)bluestarone
(16,940 posts)is GREAT
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)sandensea
(21,635 posts)God. I miss Jill Biden.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)for the country, under tRump. God KNOWS we need all the help we can get. Fake pious Christians. Obviously, they are on the side of the white assholes with the tiki torches.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Yep, magic should help us a lot. I'd rather summon Dumbledore, Snape and Harry though.
truthisfreedom
(23,147 posts)CCExile
(468 posts)He stands with the Nazis. He is out as a successor. Little dominionist fucker.
VaBchTgerLily
(231 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,166 posts)comics-strip character by that name?)
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Don't think we're going to forget where you stand on racism when this presidential shit-show goes down in flames. Mueller and his lawdogs are nipping at Donald's heels, but who can say if old Two Scoops will self-immolate before they sink their teeth in good?
Duppers
(28,120 posts)Almost blew my hot tea out.
Great post.
CrispyQ
(36,464 posts)Come on Mueller, take them all down. The whole stinking lot of them.
Because when Trump goes, we're in deep shit in Pence doesn't go with him.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)[link:|]
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)bora13
(860 posts)he is standing by his man. probably got his sign made for his
potentially new desk in the oval office.
William Seger
(10,778 posts)... like he's seeing the Second Coming of Christ and he's undressing him with his eyes. But he might be just putting on the face that he knows the Donald craves.
dalton99a
(81,492 posts)Deb
(3,742 posts)Our alt-vice and alt-pres, kinda like eggs and ham
moonseller66
(430 posts)If Pence is implicated in the Russia scandal and should resign, Donald Tramp gets to appoint a new VP...with the approval of both Houses of Congress.
That would be a VERY interesting development.
Not since Ford then Rockefeller have we seen this happen. I wonder who The Tramp would nominate?
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Waiting in the wings for your chance to step in and take over?
This show is closing out of town.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)Orangeutan
(204 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)What a sanctimonious snot spittle.
vi5
(13,305 posts)...when Trump resigns or is impeached (less likely than resignation) I have a ton of relatives who hate Trump but will be more than ready to "move on" with Pence as prez and act as though he wasn't involved and complicit in this whole shit show.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)tclambert
(11,086 posts)every once in a while to see if he's still alive. If he is, you say, "Darn it" and keep standing by.