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Showing posts with label Pence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pence. Show all posts

9/15/20

USA - Pence campaigns for his boss: Hundreds gather for Pence visit in Janesville

Speaking to about 300 people at the Holiday Inn and Convention Center, Pence said police are “some of the best people in this country … They count our lives more than their own.”

He did not directly address the issue that has led to massive protests in recent weeks over charges of racially motivated police brutality and killings of Black people.

Pence did mention the apparent ambush shooting of two Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies Saturday and the protesters who showed up at the hospital where they were treated, saying, “We hope they die.”

Read more at: Hundreds gather for Pence visit in Janesville | Local News | beloitdailynews.com

2/10/18

Korea: Pence upstaged by 2 Koreas' efforts to warm ties

Vice President Mike Pence's efforts to keep North Korea from stealing the show at the Winter Olympics proved to be short-lived, quickly drowned out by the images of the two Koreas marching and competing together, as the South appeared to look favorably on warming ties on the Korean Peninsula.

Pence spent the days leading up to the games warning that the North was trying to "hijack the message and imagery of the Olympic Games" with its "propaganda." But the North was still welcomed with open arms to what South Korean President Moon Jae-in called "Olympic games of peace" and the U.S. appeared to be the one left out in the cold.

Moon was all smiles Saturday as he greeted Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, and Kim Yong Nam, the country's 90-year-old nominal head of state, for lunch at the presidential residence. Kim Yo Jong offered an invitation from her brother for Moon to visit the North, in the strongest sign yet of an expanding diplomatic opening opposed by the U.S.

Pence said Friday that the U.S. would oppose talks between the two Koreas until the North agreed to open negotiations on ending its nuclear program, and he was silent Saturday on the news of the invitation.

Note EU-Digest: Unfortunately the Trump Administration is not trusted to keep its word anymore around the world .

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