Pence Tries To Clean Up After Trump’s Comment That Obama ‘Founded ISIS’

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Vice presidential candidate Mike Pence was left to answer for Donald Trump’s assertion that President Obama is “the founder of ISIS” on Thursday, and the Indiana governor avoided directly addressing whether he agreed with Trump’s claim.

During an interview with Colorado television station 9News, Pence was asked if he agreed with Trump’s label for the President.

“There is no question that the failed leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the foreign stage created the vacuum in the wider Middle East in which ISIS was able to spawn and grow and bring violence to the region, to our allies, and inspire violence here in the United States,” Pence said in response.

And when asked if Trump’s comment was “factually incorrect,” Pence simply said that Trump is not concerned with being politically correct.

“Well, the one thing about Donald Trump is he doesn’t go tip-toeing around the rules, the semantic rules, of political correctness. He just speaks his mind,” he said. “Everybody in this country knows exactly what Donald Trump means, whether it be on that or other issues. He’s a plainspoken man.”

“On this issue, the point is clear: that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s policy in the wider Middle East has been a disaster,” he added.

He dodged yet again when asked if he would use the same language as Trump, saying that his running mate doesn’t “tip-toe” around the issues.

Then on Friday morning, Trump published a tweet saying that his comment about Obama founding a terrorist group was “sarcasm.”

Watch the interview via 9News:

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  1. Poor Mike Pence. From governor to the guy who follows the horses in a parade with a broom, in just one step.

  2. “Well, the one thing about Donald Trump is he doesn’t go tip-toeing around the rules, the semantic rules, of political correctness. He just speaks his mind,” he said. “Everybody in this country knows exactly what Donald Trump means, whether it be on that or other issues. He’s a plainspoken man.”

    “What did you expect? Welcome, sonny? Make yourself at home? Marry my daughter? You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons”

  3. Avatar for zsak zsak says:

    He just speaks his mind

    And what a mind it is. :smile:

  4. “Well, the one thing about Donald Trump is he doesn’t go tip-toeing around the rules, the semantic rules, of political correctness. He just speaks his mind,” he said. “Everybody in this country knows exactly what Donald Trump means, whether it be on that or other issues. He’s a plainspoken man.”

    Well, Governor Pence, if that is so why didn't you tell your interviewer Trump was employing sarcasm? You know, since everyone knows what Donald Trump means?
  5. And when asked if Trump’s comment was “factually incorrect,” Pence simply said that Trump is not concerned with being politically correct.

    Oh Mikey - there’s a YUGE difference between being factually correct and politically correct. One relies on the use of, you know, FACTS!

    When you lie down with pigs, you wake up in fetid feces. And you’re destined to wake up in feces every day between now and the end of time.

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