Mike Pence blames President Trump and other GOP contenders for the 2024 presidential nomination, pointing out that Trump is to blame for the most recent Hamas attack on Israel. Pence denounced Trump in a number of speeches and interviews, along with Governor Ron DeSantis and billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, charging them with “appeasement” and “signaling retreat.”
Pence stated at a State of the Union appearance on CNN, “This is what happens when we have leading voices like Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis signaling retreat from America’s role as leader of the free world….When I’m President of the United States, we’ll lead from American strength.”
Pence went on to blame Trump for the assault while also blaming Joe Biden for creating the conditions for it by “setting the conditions.” Strangely, Pence connected both assaults to Trump’s America First foreign policy, which actually avoided wars on Israel and the Ukraine when he was president. He also blamed Trump for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Pence was questioned by CNN reporter Dana Bash over his remarks from Saturday in Iowa, where he blamed Trump of “appeasement” and signaling retreat on the world stage”
Former Vice President Mike Pence ripped against Donald Trump and accused Republicans of being guilty in the massive Hamas attack on Israel by being isolationist, denouncing the United States’ “retreat on the world stage.”
In a harsh criticism, Pence slammed “voices of appeasement like Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis that I believe have run contrary to the tradition in our party that America is the leader of the free world.”
Pence’s remarks in Iowa served as the first reaction to the violence that broke out on Saturday in the Republican primary, and they essentially issued a challenge to others who he said have not “embraced the language of isolationism and appeasement.”
…“This is also what happens when you have leaders in the Republican Party signaling retreat on the world stage,” Pence said.
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In the CNN transcript:
BASH: I want to focus sort of on this strain here. I want to focus on what you had to say about some of your fellow Republicans.
You said that this is what happens when leaders in the Republican Party signal Americans’ retreat as leader of the free world. Weakness arouses evil.
Are you talking about your former running mate?
PENCE: Well, I am, but let me begin where we ought to start.
I mean, that disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan has emboldened the enemies of freedom around the world. And now war is raging in Eastern Europe. And President Joe Biden’s kowtowing for the last two-and-a- half years to the mullahs in Iran, lifting sanctions, begging them to get back in the Iran nuclear deal, and then paying $6 billion in a ransom for hostages, I think set the conditions for this unprecedented terrorist attack by Hamas against Israel.
But I also believe this is what happens when we have leading voices like Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis signaling retreat from America’s role as leader of the free world. I — look, what happened in Ukraine was an unprovoked invasion by Russia. What happened this weekend was an unprovoked invasion by Hamas into Israel.
And I really believe now, more than ever, both the debate within the Republican Party and the debate within America, is whether or not we’re going to once again stand without apology as the leader of the free world, as the arsenal of democracy.
The heartbreaking images coming out of both of these theaters of operations remind us that America is the indispensable leader of the free world. And if I’m president of the United States, we will lead from American strength.
