Fmr. Trump Vice President Mike Pence honored by JFK family with prestigious award

Boston, Massachusetts – Former Vice President Mike Pence was awarded on Sunday night for his actions on January 6, 2021, defying his boss at the time, president Donald Trump.

Pence received the John F. Kennedy Award in the award for courage to refuse to honor Trump’s request to eliminate the results of the 2020 presidential election, and instead monitored the congress confirmation of former victory of former President Joe Biden.

“Vice -President Pence put his life career and his family on the line to perform his constitutional responsibility. His actions preserved the fundamental democratic principle of free and honest elections and we are proud to respect him,” said the daughter of former ambassador Kennedy, the daughter of the late President Kennedy.

Pence, accepting the annual award, emphasized that this is “the difference that I will appreciate for the rest of my life.”

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And the former vice president, pointing to his actions on January 6th, said with a standing standing ovation: “I will always trust the grace of God that I did my duty that day.”

In a digital interview with Fox News a few minutes after the awards ceremony, Pence said: “In all my travels across the country in the last four years, I deeply humiliated how many Americans came to me and I just took the point to encourage and support us, and that assures me that the US people know that all the differences we can have.

The US-65-year-old Pence was a governor of Indiana when Trump appointed him his racing colleagues in 2016. Pence was a loyal Vice President of Trump for four years during the president’s first term in the White House.

However, it all changed on January 6, 2021, because the right-wing extremists and some of the “Hang Mike Pence” singings-a US Capitol to improve the congress certification, which was overseen by Pence as part of his constitutional duties of vice president, Biden’s Victory of the Election Faculty.

IN Attack on the capitol Shortly after Trump spoke with a large expensive supporter near the White House about unproven claims that the 2020 elections were “set up” because of the huge “voter fraud”.

Pence has long described the violent attack on the capitol as “tragic” and separated “millions of people who supported our cause throughout the country.” He emphasized that he did a “right thing” and did his “duty to the Constitution”. He also noted several times that he and Trump may never “see his face to face” that day.

While Pence, his family and top associates, was bustled by the secret services agents while the rebellion wandered through the halls of the capitol, Trump claimed in the post on social media that “Mike Pence did not have the courage to do what needed to be done to protect our country and our constitution, giving the states a chance to confirm the correct facts, not requested.

Pence rejected the advice of a secret service to escape from the capitol, and after the rebellion was eventually removed from the capitol, he continued his constitutional role in the control of the Congress ceremony ceremony.

The former Vice President repeatedly rejected Trump’s claim that he could cancel the results of the presidential election. Nevertheless, Hardcore Trump’s loyalists never forgave Pence, who they consider a traitor, for refusing to help the president’s repeated efforts to cancel the election results in 2020.

In June 2023, Pence launched his own presidential campaign, joining the great challenger area to shoot Trump for the GOP 2024 nomination, becoming the first traveler in more than 80 years who ran against his former boss.

Pence ran on a traditional conservative platform, framing the future of the Republican Party against what he called the increase in “populism” in the party.

Among the thin anti-trump base of the Republican Party, Pence received praise for his courage during the attack on the capitol, often thanks to the city councilors during his campaign to leave Trump.

While Pence regularly ran in the key early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, his White House offer never took off. Fighting at the polls and with the collection of funds, he suspended his campaign only four and a half months after declaring his candidacy.

The Profile in Courage Award was appointed by the book of the late John F. Kennedy published in 1957 before becoming president.

The award pays tribute to public officers who occupy principal views despite potential political or personal consequences. Former presidents of Barack Obama, George HW Bush and Gerald Ford were among the previous recipients.

Jack Schlossberg, a grandson of JFK, who presented a former vice president at the awards ceremony, said Pence “saved America that day.”

Caroline Kennedy, in honor of the former vice president, noticed her “political differences” with Pence, but emphasized that “political courage was not obsolete in the United States.”

And Pence, a well -known fiscal and social conservative, joked to speak in front of an audience dominated by Democrats, saying that he was “a minority in this room.”

After giving up on his own offering for the White House, Pence refused to support Trump, even after Trump won the GOP nomination last spring, although he congratulated his former racing colleague after winning November last year.

Trump and Pence were seen shaking hands at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter in early January – their first public appearance together in almost four years.

Trump, Pence shares at the Carter funeral at the first public meeting since he left his duty

So far, Pence has appeared as a rare vocal Republican critic Trump during the president’s second tour of duties in the White House.

He criticized Trump’s controversial and random implementation of mass tariffs on the largest American trade partners, which initially caused a huge stock sale and caused concern about increased inflation and recession interviews.

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He also criticized the president’s increase in long -standing US foreign policy and urged Trump to stand with long -standing international allies.

Pence’s public advocacy group, advanced to American freedom, was also in the campaign against Robert F. Kennedy’s nomination Jr. run national health agencies.