Boston – Former Vice President Mike Pence On Sunday he repeatedly invoked the Constitution and said that it “unites us all” after receiving the John F. Kennedy award in Courage Award.
Pence received the award for his refusal to accompany the president Donald Trump’s The efforts to remain in office after losing the 2020 elections. The prize recognizes Pence “for putting his life and career on the line to guarantee the constitutional transfer of presidential power on January 6, 2021,” said the JFK library foundation.
“To forge a future together, we have to find common land,” Pence said. “I hope that somehow my presence here tonight is a reminder that they are the differences that we can have as Americans, the Constitution is the common terrain in which we are. It is what unites us over time and generations … It is what makes us a people.”
His comments occurred hours after an interview with Trump was issued in which he was asked if US citizens and non -citizens deserve due process as established in the fifth amendment of the Constitution. Trump was not compromised.
“I don’t know. I am not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know,” Trump said when he is pressed in an interview with Kristen Welker from NBC. He was recorded on Friday at his Mar-A-Lago property in Florida and was broadcast on Sunday.
Pence never mentioned Trump during his 10 -minute speech, but made several references to the Trump administration.
Reference to what he called “these divided times, these anxious days,” he acknowledged that he probably had differences with the Democrats in the room, but also with his own Republican Party “about spending, tariffs and my belief that the United States is the leader of the free world and must be with Ukraine until the Russian invasion is repelled and a fair and last peace is obtained.”
Triumph Penca pressed Reject the results of the Swing states elections where the Republican president falsely said that the vote was tarnished by fraud. Pence refused, saying he lacked that authority. When A multitude of Trump supporters They broke into the Capitol, some sang that they wanted to “hang Mike Pence.” Pence was taken by secret service agents, avoiding a confrontation with the uproar.
“Mike Pence did not have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our Constitution, giving states the opportunity to certify a set of corrected facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate who were asked to previously certify,” Trump wrote at the time in X, previously Twitter, as the Riopers moved through the Capitol and Pence were in their family, to which the security details were in their family Security details.
Pence rejected the Secret Service Council that the Capitol left, staying to continue with the certification of ceremonial elections of the presidential victory of Democrat Joe Biden once the protesters were authorized.
When describing his role, Pence told the audience that “by the grace of God I did my duty that day of supporting the peaceful transfer of power under the constitution of the United States of America.”
The In Courage Profile Prize, named for a book that Kennedy published in 1957 before becoming president, honors public officials who take positions of principles despite the possible political or personal consequences. The previous award recipients include former presidents Barack Obama, George Hw Bush and Gerald Ford.
Pence has become one of the few Republicans willing to face the Trump administration.
His political action group, advancing American freedom, campaigned against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nomination to direct the health agencies of the Nation. Has spoken speeches urging the president to be with foreign allies for a long time and He published an article he wrote more than a decade ago On the limits of presidential power after Trump said that “he who saves his country does not violate any law.”
