Pence was not interested in defending Trump: The GOP’s revisionist history of the Trump candid
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Mike Pence was not interested in defending Donald Trump
The GOP’s revisionist history of the Trump candidacy began tonight.
https://thinkprogress.org/mike-pence-was-not-interested-in-defending-donald-trump-c13fb6399c1e#.t1ogkl668
By all accounts, Mike Pence is running for the vice presidency on a ticket with Donald Trump. Viewers might be forgiven if they went to bed with the wrong impression after tuning into Pence’s one and only appearance on a debate stage Tuesday night, though.
Time and again, Pence was asked to defend some of his running mate’s most controversial statements and positions. And with virtually every opportunity, he instead deflected, changed the subject, or outright denied that Trump’s words were Trump’s words.
Take this exchange on nuclear weapons. This past spring, Trump raised eyebrows when he suggested it was in America’s interest if more countries—like Saudi Arabia, Japan, and South Korea—began developing nuclear weapons. He also suggested that as president, he wouldn’t be opposed to using nuclear weapons in Europe.
To national security experts at the time and still today, Trump’s comments were as alarming as they were outlandish. And on Tuesday, Mike Pence sounded incredulous when Trump’s own words were essentially repeated back to him verbatim by his Democratic counterpart Tim Kaine.
“He never said that,” Pence insisted. Naturally, there is ample video evidence of Trump saying it, repeatedly.
Pence also couldn’t believe a presidential nominee would forget the fact that Russia invaded Crimea just two years ago. “Trump…didn’t know that Russia had invaded Crimea,” Kaine reminded viewers.
“He knew that,” was Pence’s chortled retort..................................**MANY MORE EXAMPLES GIVEN...............................**********
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Big takeaway tonight: @GovPenceIN thinks @realDonaldTrump can't win.That's why he didn't defend Trump, but instead promoted himself for 2020
Mike Pence and Donald Trump at a campaign event in Ohio. CREDIT: AP Images
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I'm so proud of Kaine 
I'll bet Trump is furious that Pence seemed to be helping himself rather than a Trump presidency. First thing commentators said afterward was he looked like the 2020 candidate. Look out Gov., your next on his crazy nickname list.
