Boston – former Vice President Mike Pines On Sunday, the constitution was called on Sunday, this is what “links us all together” after receiving the John F. Kennedy file in the Courage Award.
Pence received the award for refusing to be in line with the president Donald Trump The efforts made to stay in office after losing in the 2020 elections. The JFK Library Foundation said that the award realizes Pence “to put his life and professional life to ensure the constitutional transfer of the presidential authority on January 6, 2021.”
“To form a future together, we have to find a common ground,” Pins said. “I hope that my existence here is somewhat tonight is a reminder that whatever the differences in which we may be as Americans, the constitution is the common basis on which we stand. It is what links us through time and generations … This is what makes us one people.”
His comments came hours after an interview with Trump, in which he was asked whether American and non -citizen citizens deserve due legal procedures as shown in the fifth amendment to the constitution. Trump was not binding.
“I don’t know. I am not, I am not a lawyer. I don’t know,” Trump said when he pressed in an interview with Christine Wilker from NBC. On Friday, he was registered in his property in Mar Lago in Florida and was broadcast on Sunday.
Pens did not mention Trump during his 10 -minute speech, but he indicated several references to the Trump administration.
Referring to what he called “these divided times, in these days of concern,” he admitted that he may have differences with the Democrats in the room, and also with his Republican party “on spending and definitions, and I believe that America is the leader of the free world and must stand with Ukraine until the Russian invasion is restored and subsequent in peace.”
Trump Pence pressure To reject the election results from the swinging countries, as the Republican President falsely claimed that the vote was fraudulent. Pence refused, saying that he lacks this power. when A crowd of Trump supporters Capitol stormed, and some responded that they wanted to “comment Mike Pines.” Pence was moved away by the secret service agents, avoiding distress confrontation with riots.
“Mike Pines had the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving countries an opportunity to ratify a corrected group of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate facts that were previously asked to ratify them,“ Trump wrote at that time on X, on Twitter, while rioters were moving through the Capitol, and they were in a state of mixing with his family and security details within the construction.
Pence rejected the secret service advice that he was leaving the Capitol, and staying to continue the ceremonial election certificate for the presidential victory of Democrat Joe Biden as soon as the riot is cleared.
In describing his role, Pence Al -Jamhour told that “with the grace of God, I did my duty on that day to support the peaceful transfer of power under the constitution of the United States of America.”
He said in his speech: “It was a tragic day of January 6, but it has become a victory of freedom. History will record that our institutions were held.” “Leaders in both rooms, in both political parties, restore on the same day and end the work of democracy under the constitution.”
The daughter of John Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, who presented with his grandson Jack Shalosburg, said that Pence on that day was a reminder that democracy should not be considered a matter of it.
She said: “At that time, I believed that Vice President Pence was doing his job.” “Just later I realized that his courage did we save our government and warn us of what could happen and happen now.”
The Courage’s Profile Award, which was named after a book published in 1957 before becoming a president, honors public officials who take initial positions despite the political or possible political consequences. Among the former beneficiaries of the award are former presidents, Barack Obama, George Harrape Bush and Gerald Ford.
Pence has emerged as one of the few Republicans who want to face the Trump administration.
The political working group, which advanced American freedom, carried out a campaign against Robert F. Kennedy Junior for the leadership of health agencies in the country. He gave letters urging the president Stand with foreign allies for a long time and An article formulated for more than a decade ago On the boundaries of the presidential authority yet Trump claimed This, “He who saves his country does not violate any law.”
