'No idea more un-American': Pence debunks Trump’s claim that he is 'too honest'

13 August 2023

NBC's Chuck Todd, during Sunday's edition of Meet the Press, interviewed former Vice President Mike Pence, asking the 2024 Republican candidate whether it's true that ex-President Donald Trump criticized Pence's failure to assist with his attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

Earlier this month, following the release of United States Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith's indictment of the former president, The Messenger Senior Legal Correspondent Adam Kladfeld tweeted, "'You're too honest.' — What Trump told Pence on Jan. 1, after the then-VP said he had no constitutional authority to reject or return votes to the states, according to the indictment."

Todd asked Pence, "Donald Trump said this week that he never asked you to disregard the Constitution, and that he never said that you were too honest. Are either of those true?"

The GOP hopeful replied, "You can check his tweets on the day of, the day before. The president was quite clear and quite public that he thought that I had the authority to either reject or return votes to the states—"

Todd interrupted, asking, "Do you stand by that remark, that he said you're too honest?"

Pence said, "I do, Chuck. I mean, it's part of dialogue that happened between the president and me. And that was related, I think, to a bogus lawsuit that was brought to try and force my hand, to have a federal judge say that I had the right to throw out votes. There's almost no idea more un-American than the idea that any one person could choose which votes to count for President of the United States. The American people know, as I heard from dozens of people at the Iowa State Fair, Chuck, the American people know the presidency belongs to them, to them alone, and no one person has ever had that authority or ever should under our system."

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