In recent remarks, former Vice President Pence worked to sidestep comments about Donald Trump’s most recent indictment stemming from his alleged mishandling of classified documents.
News of the indictment isn’t deterring many of Trump’s supporters and Republican voters.
In fact, they’re championing harder than ever for the former president.
A recent CBS News poll found that 76 percent of likely GOP primary voters believe the indictment was politically motivated. If he’s convicted, 80 percent of those same likely voters say Trump should be able to serve as president.
As for his former running mate, now-presidential hopeful former Vice President Mike Pence sat down with NBC’s “Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd on Sunday to talk about about the indictment, among other things. It wasn’t much of a discussion as Pence circumvented any straightforward responses about Trump and, instead, used the time to point to Hunter Biden’s charges, a recent discovery that President Biden also privately possessed some classified documents, and the Black Lives Matter protests.
Pence’s most forthright comment for Todd was, “We have an indictment. And as I said, the allegations are serious. And the proper approach now is for equal treatment under the law.”
That’s when Pence said he would like to see the Department of Justice bring “equal vigor to the investigation into allegations around Hunter Biden.”
The allegations Pence is alluding to involve Hunter Biden’s reported sketchy foreign dealings with Ukraine and China, leading to questions about sizable amounts of income he neglected to disclose on his tax returns in the past. Biden just pled guilty to two federal tax misdemeanors in a related investigation. That investigation found that Biden failed to pay his taxes, but prosecutors did not find cause to file charges for his dealings with foreign entities or implicate him for other wrongdoing.
Pence also used the time to…
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