Boston – Former vice -president Mike Pence Sunday, Sunday, invoked the Constitution several times and said that that was what “binds us all together” after having received the John F. Kennedy prize in courage.
Pence received the prize for his refusal to support the president Donald Trump efforts to stay in office after losing the 2020 elections. The price recognizes Pence “for having put his life and his career at stake to ensure the constitutional transfer of the presidential power on January 6, 2021,” said JFK Library Foundation.
“To forge a future together, we have to find common ground,” said Pence. “I hope in a way that my presence here this evening is a reminder that whatever the differences that we could have as Americans, the Constitution is the common ground on which we hold. This is what binds us through time and generations. … This is what makes us a people. “
His comments came a few hours after an interview with Trump was broadcast in which he was asked if the American citizens and non-citizens both deserve a regular procedure as indicated in the fifth amendment of the Constitution. Trump was not engaged.
“I don't know. I'm not, I'm not a lawyer. I don't know,” Trump said when he was in a hurry in an interview with NBC Kristen Welker. He was recorded on Friday in his Mar-A-Lago property in Florida and broadcast on Sunday.
Pence never mentioned Trump during his 10 -minute speech, but made several references to the Trump administration.
By referring to what he called “these divided times, in these anxious days”, he recognized that he probably had differences with the Democrats in the room, but also with his own republican party “on spending, prices and my conviction that America is the head of the free world and must be secure with Ukraïne.
Asset Pressure pence To reject the results of the Swing States elections, where the republican president falsely said that the vote had been spoiled by fraud. Pence refused, saying it was lacking in such authority. When A crowd of Trump supporters made the Capitol in storm, some sang that they wanted to “hang Mike Pence”. Pence was taken by secret service agents, justly avoiding confrontation with the rioters.
“Mike Pence did not have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving the States a chance to certify a set of corrected facts, and not the fraudulent or inaccurate which were invited to certify previously,” wrote Trump at the time on X, aid and security inside the building.
Pence rejected the councils of the secret services that he left the Capitol, remaining to continue the ceremonial electoral certification of the presidential victory of the Democrat Joe Biden once the rioters were authorized.
By describing his role, Pence told the public that “by the grace of God, I did my duty that day to support the peaceful transfer of power under the constitution of the United States of America.”
“January 6 was a tragic day, but it became a triumph of freedom. History will record that our institutions have held,” he said in his speech. “The leaders of the two chambers, in the two political parties, recognized the same day and ended the work of democracy under the Constitution.”
JFK's daughter Caroline Kennedy, who, with her grandson Jack Schlossberg, replaced the prize, said that Pence's actions that day was a reminder that democracy should not be held for acquired.
“At the time, I thought that vice-president Pennce was only doing his job,” she said. “It was not until later that I realized that his act of courage saved our government and warned us of what could happen and happens right now.”
The profile in courage Award, named after a book Kennedy published in 1957 before becoming president, honors civil servants who take principles of principle despite the potential political or personal consequences. The previous prize recipients include former presidents Barack Obama, George HW Bush and Gerald Ford.
Pence has become one of the few Republicans willing to face the Trump administration.
His political action group, Advancing American Freedom, campaigned against the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the country's health agencies. He delivered speeches urging the president to Stay with longtime foreign allies And published an article he wrote more than a decade ago on the limits of presidential power after Trump said That, “the one who saves his country does not violate any law.”
