“Will there ever be a point in time where you’re able to look at Trump in the eye and tell him enough is enough?”
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Pence took questions from the audience about treatment of military veterans, the mental health system, the nation’s relationship with Israel and teachers’ pay.
Asked whether a Trump administration would reinstate prayers in school, Pence said only that his running mate strongly believed in religious freedom and would fight to repeal a law that bars churches from endorsing candidates for elected office.
“I have never been around someone more devoted to the armed forces of this country”.
Pence said much of the same media criticizing Trump earlier condemned Patricia Smith’s speech at the GOP convention about the USA information officer killed in the 2012 attack in Benghazi.
Since then, Trump has complained he was “viciously” attacked by the couple and suggested Ghazala Khan might not have been “allowed” to speak, implying her silence reflected restrictions placed on women by some traditional Muslims.
Pence told his Phoenix audience that Trump “will bring no-nonsense leadership to the White House” and “restore law and order to our cities and streets” by strengthening and supporting law enforcement nationwide.
Since then, Donald Trump has gone on to stage a series of freakish attacks at the Khan family, suggesting that Khan’s wife Ghazala was “not allowed” to speak publicly (she has since gone on to write an opinion piece for The Washington Post explaining that discussing her son’s death in public is too hard for her, as if she should have to). “He was supposed to help the vets”, said Barbara Beck, a Trump backer in the Tucson crowd who said, along with many others surrounding her, that she will not back the longtime Arizonan.
Pence said much of the same media criticizing Trump earlier condemned Patricia Smith’s speech at the GOP convention about the US information officer killed in the 2012 attack in Benghazi.
The upset mother spoke to NBC News following her appearance at the rally and said she “felt disrespected”. Ms. Khan said she remained silent because she was too grief-stricken. “Donald Trump supports our soldiers and supports our veterans, like no other leader in my lifetime”.
“If Pence had a modicum of dignity or decency, he would tell the American people, ‘I made a bad mistake”.
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“I thought he handled it really, really well”, she said. “Why, somebody who has said divisive, hateful, racist things, even insulted John McCain himself and yet he still supports him”, said Kirkpatrick.
