Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday defended President Trump’s comments in which he appeared to draw parallels between the United States and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We now have a president who is reengaging a world from which America has been stepping back over the last eight years,” the former Indiana governor said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
In a clip of an interview set to air before the Super Bowl, Trump responded to a remark about Putin being a “killer” by saying, “We got a lot of killers — what, you think our country’s so innocent?”
When asked if Trump was making a claim of moral equivalence between the U.S. and Russia, Pence rejected the notion.
“There was no moral equivalency,” Pence said, adding, “What you heard there was a determination to attempt to deal with the world as it is. Let’s start afresh with Putin, and to start afresh with Russia.”
When pressed by host John Dickerson on his comments, Pence repeated: “What I can tell you is that there is no moral equivalency in what the president was saying.
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#GOP discovers that when it comes to selling your soul, like pregnancy, you're all in or out. Binary choices.https://t.co/tZO9Xa2ow2
— John Schindler (@20committee) February 5, 2017
Pence defends Trump's comparison of Putin to Americans https://t.co/gi1s1HQAsA pic.twitter.com/1gGwhCahl7
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 5, 2017
Won’t be the last time.
This clip is stunning and bizarre. The Vice President of the United States won't say whether America is morally superior to Russia. pic.twitter.com/HjxktTvYte
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) February 5, 2017
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