Pence Refuses To Answer Simple Question Of Whether Trump Is A ‘Good Man’

During an interview with NPR this week, former Vice President Mike Pence was asked a very simple and straightforward question: Do you still think Donald Trump is a good man? Rather than giving a clear yes or no answer, the coward simply said that Trump was wrong about overturning the election and that he was proud of his record. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this pathetically weak response from Pence.

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During an interview with NPR this week, Mike Pence was asked the straightforward question, do you think Donald Trump is a good man? And in true cowardly Mike Pence fashion, Mike Pence didn't answer the question. Now, the reason the interviewer even bothered to ask him, do you think Trump is a good man, is because many months ago, Mike Pence had said, you know, Donald Trump's a good man. So the interviewer, after a lot of new stuff, obviously has come to light over the past year, wanted to press Mike Pence, who's out there promoting his book, and possibly a 2024 presidential run, wanted to kind of poke him a little bit and be like, Hey, um, you still think he is a good man, right? You, you wanna give us a straight up yes or no answer about whether or not Donald Trump's a good man? And Pence refused. Instead, he said, well, Trump was wrong about me having the authority to overturn the election, but I'm also proud of our record. And after he said that, the interviewer responded with, while you're, you're proud of the record, you didn't just call him a good man again. So Pence responded with this, well, look, I, I truly do believe that only God knows our hearts. I'll leave it to others to make their own judgements.

You know, it must be wonderful to always have that, you know, accomplice who doesn't say anything, that you can pin everything on God. You know, a non-objective individual that you could just use as your scapegoat for everything. Like, is Trump a good person? Well, look, only God can judge us, right? I mean, that's up to God. You gotta taken up with a big guy. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not speaking for God. Why would you, why would you assume that? Like, can you just turn the tables on them without actually answering the question? You know, Mike, what is in Donald Trump's heart? We all know what is in Donald Trump's heart. It's so dark that I expect him to be visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve this year. We all know that he is a horrible, horrible human being. But more importantly, just for you personally, Mike, this guy wanted you dead.

When those people stormed the capital were walking around, chanting, hang Mike Pence, they had a frigging gallow built outside. They were going to kill you. And Trump is watching TV and says, maybe Mike deserves it. Trump wanted you dead. And you still don't have the cajas to come out there and say, you know what? He's not a good guy. Instead, you pin it off on God. You're like, well, you're gonna have to ask God that, I don't know, whatever. Whatever God says is what it is. You could say it. But Mike Pence, his hell bent on basically off everybody at this point, he wants to run for president desperately. He's trying to position himself

To be, be able to do that by distancing himself from Donald Trump, but not from the Trump record. So what he's done is he has off the mag crowd because of course, he didn't overturn the election results. So the mag freaks are never gonna vote for him. Meanwhile, normal Republicans out there aren't gonna vote for him anymore anyway, because tied at the hip with Donald Trump and all the calamity that happened during those four years. So Mike Pence has no audience. He has no base. So I don't know who he thinks he's even pandering to at this point, but I gotta tell you, Mike, it's not gonna work. I do want you to run for president because it's gonna be hilarious to watch you be one of the first people forced to drop out when you realize that nobody in this country, left, right, center, or whatever, supports you at all.