“The View” co-host Alyssa Farrah Griffin on Friday slammed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for comparing former Vice President Mike Pence to vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance.
Buttigieg Said During a July 19 segment on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Griffin told Buttigieg that his comments “glorified” Vance and “diminished” the purported threat to democracy.
“But you recently [Pence] “It seems to me that with J.D. Vance, his number one qualification to be vice president is that he won't abide by the Constitution and do what Mike Pence did on January 6th,” Griffin said. “I'm concerned that equating the two whitewashings not only belittles J.D. Vance and his constitutional position, but also undermines the warning that you and I have been making that a second term for Trump would be historically dangerous, even more dangerous than his first term. Do you think it could be interpreted that way?”
“Yes, I think we're both right to point out how dangerous and harmful President Trump is, but I also think it's important to tell the truth about the choices these two men made,” Buttigieg replied. “Mike Pence and J.D. Vance are very different men, but in my view, they each sold out their values and associated themselves with Donald Trump in order to gain power.”
'We're going to tone this down': Alyssa Farah Griffin takes on Pete Buttigieg over comparisons to JD Vance and Mike Pence pic.twitter.com/6WMjeK5nGU
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Buttigieg accused Pence of abandoning evangelical Christian values to support a man who allegedly had an affair with former porn star Stormy Daniels in 2006, and said Vance did the same thing years after he had harshly criticized him. Criticized Trump.
“He compared him to Hitler and, years later, as J.D. Vance's path to power,[ed] “I'm going to sell myself to Donald Trump,” Buttigieg said. (RELATED: 'That didn't happen!': Republican governor feuds with 'The View' co-host over Kamala Harris' candidacy)
Buttigieg was referring to private Facebook messages Vance sent to a friend in 2016 in which he reportedly mused about whether Trump could become “the American Hitler.” according to “I'm not a Trump fan,” he told Politico. That same year, in an interview with Charlie Rose about his best-selling book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” he described himself as a “Never-Trumper.”
According to Politico, Vance regrets his past comments about Trump and has since called him a great president.
The Transportation Secretary praised Vice President Pence for rejecting President Trump's request to withhold the certification of the electoral votes on January 6, 2021, but argued that there is a “low bar to expect” for government officials to adhere to the Constitution.
Griffin then repeated his question about whether his warnings about a second Trump term would be softened, with Buttigieg warning that a second Trump term would be “dramatically worse” than his first, and arguing that the former president would have fewer “constraints.”
Pence said in March that he would not endorse Trump ahead of the 2024 election because he had “serious” differences with him. Protected Trump said he was fulfilling his “constitutional duty” by certifying the electoral vote, but also argued that his plan was “incompatible with conservative policies.”
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