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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:33 PM Aug 2017

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 Trump’s 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.”

“We’ve been praying, we’ve been praying for God’s 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.”

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pence-i-stand-with-president

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Mike Pence Backs Up Trump: 'I Stand By The President' (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2017 OP
Hopefully Mueller will link him to Russia and Manafort and he will go the way of Agnew redstatebluegirl Aug 2017 #1
I hope so too! burrowowl Aug 2017 #19
Exactly! n/t AntiFascist Aug 2017 #26
"Around our shared values" musette_sf Aug 2017 #2
Agreed! n/t MBS Aug 2017 #28
I stand by Heather. bronxiteforever Aug 2017 #3
this bluestarone Aug 2017 #32
Mike Pence can go eat a bowl of dicks nt geek tragedy Aug 2017 #4
Karen Pence, meanwhile, is already measuring the White House drapes. sandensea Aug 2017 #5
Mike and his Mommy wife should pray Scarsdale Aug 2017 #6
Said like a true magical thinker. defacto7 Aug 2017 #7
Nauseating little worm. truthisfreedom Aug 2017 #8
This makes him our first unAmerican Vice... CCExile Aug 2017 #9
PENCE ISA TOTAL ASS KISSER VaBchTgerLily Aug 2017 #10
Is Pence a Mr. Milquetoast? (Does anyone here remember that term, and the No Vested Interest Aug 2017 #11
Atta boy, Mikey...get that Rump taint aaaaaallllll over yourself flibbitygiblets Aug 2017 #12
Beverage warning needed. Duppers Aug 2017 #29
Such a cowardly little shadow hoping for his time in the spotlight. CrispyQ Aug 2017 #13
Good. DFW Aug 2017 #14
"Standing by the President" not fooled Aug 2017 #15
A man is known by the company he keeps LiberalLovinLug Aug 2017 #16
stand by yo man bora13 Aug 2017 #17
Yeah, he stands by the president with a look on his face... William Seger Aug 2017 #18
Snake lying patiently in the grass dalton99a Aug 2017 #20
He lacks the courage to do anything else Deb Aug 2017 #21
A New VP? moonseller66 Aug 2017 #22
Mmm-hmm, Mikey? spiderpig Aug 2017 #23
The answer to the question, "Can you possibly be a worse human being than Trump?" 6000eliot Aug 2017 #24
Definition of "unctuous." Orangeutan Aug 2017 #25
Hey Mike, eat me C_U_L8R Aug 2017 #27
Good. I will need all of this material.... vi5 Aug 2017 #30
Pence, you're a racist whore. Duppers Aug 2017 #31
Trump Pence and I are not united blueinredohio Aug 2017 #33
As Vice President that is literally his job--to stand by the President and check his pulse tclambert Aug 2017 #34

musette_sf

(10,201 posts)
2. "Around our shared values"
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:35 PM
Aug 2017

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.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
6. Mike and his Mommy wife should pray
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:39 PM
Aug 2017

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)
7. Said like a true magical thinker.
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:46 PM
Aug 2017

Yep, magic should help us a lot. I'd rather summon Dumbledore, Snape and Harry though.

CCExile

(468 posts)
9. This makes him our first unAmerican Vice...
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:47 PM
Aug 2017

He stands with the Nazis. He is out as a successor. Little dominionist fucker.

No Vested Interest

(5,166 posts)
11. Is Pence a Mr. Milquetoast? (Does anyone here remember that term, and the
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 03:05 PM
Aug 2017

comics-strip character by that name?)

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
12. Atta boy, Mikey...get that Rump taint aaaaaallllll over yourself
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 03:09 PM
Aug 2017

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?

CrispyQ

(36,464 posts)
13. Such a cowardly little shadow hoping for his time in the spotlight.
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 03:13 PM
Aug 2017

Come on Mueller, take them all down. The whole stinking lot of them.

bora13

(860 posts)
17. stand by yo man
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 03:21 PM
Aug 2017

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)
18. Yeah, he stands by the president with a look on his face...
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 03:26 PM
Aug 2017

... 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.

moonseller66

(430 posts)
22. A New VP?
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 03:44 PM
Aug 2017

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)
23. Mmm-hmm, Mikey?
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 03:54 PM
Aug 2017

Waiting in the wings for your chance to step in and take over?

This show is closing out of town.

 

vi5

(13,305 posts)
30. Good. I will need all of this material....
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 05:50 PM
Aug 2017

...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.

tclambert

(11,086 posts)
34. As Vice President that is literally his job--to stand by the President and check his pulse
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 09:44 PM
Aug 2017

every once in a while to see if he's still alive. If he is, you say, "Darn it" and keep standing by.

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