Republican presidential hopeful Mike Pence has finally decided to hit Donald Trump where it hurts.
in his classified-records scandal, the former veep said that he “cannot defend what is alleged” in the former president’s indictment. It “contains serious charges,” he added, noting that Trump allegedly created “an opportunity where highly sensitive classified material could have fallen into the wrong hands.” a CNN town hall
last Wednesday, Pence had urged the Justice Department not to indict his former boss, arguing that such a move would sow discord at home and send a “terrible message” abroad. He also refused to rule out the possibility of pardoning Trump should he win the presidency, and decried the FBI’s decision to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last year.
Still, a hint of that same sentiment was present in Pence’s about-face this week. Parroting an argument made by Trump’s own surrogates, Pence criticized a “two-tiered justice system” that gave a “pass” toin 2016 over the private email server she used as secretary of state to share sensitive materials. (Unlike Trump, Clinton did not store or share any documents
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