Posted on 05/06/2025 7:43:27 AM PDT by RandFan
Donald Trump's former vice-president, Mike Pence, has received a John F Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for refusing to endorse false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Pence defied Trump by declining to throw out electoral votes cast for Joe Biden during a congressional session on 6 January 2021 that was targeted by rioters.
The former vice-president stayed inside the US Capitol as it was stormed by hundreds of Trump supporters and presided over the certification of the election after the building was cleared.
That day "became a triumph of freedom", Pence told those gathered at the JFK Library in Boston on Sunday.
The award, named after a book written by President Kennedy, is given by the JFK Library Foundation.
"January 6 was a tragic day," Pence said after receiving the award from Kennedy's daughter Caroline Kennedy and his grandson Jack Schlossberg.
"But it became a triumph of freedom. And history will record that our institutions held," Pence said.
Past award recipients include former presidents Barack Obama and George H W Bush, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney.
After Trump lost the 2020 vote, he made broad claims that fraud and cheating cost him the election, alleging a vast conspiracy that included even Republican-run states such as Georgia.
The US vice-president presides over the Senate, and it was in this role that Pence resisted calls from Trump and his supporters to try to overturn the election results.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Four years after the fact?
With the thread posted yesterday on this topic?
PUKE!
What a POS! Him and his wife!!!!!!!!!
That’s really funny! Pence getting this award is like Capone getting an honesty award!
One wonders who really controls this puke?
As opposed to the ‘sensible’ murders? Journalists huh? Oh, bbc.
Wrong story. DOH!😴
LOL. Most believe Ted Sorensen actually wrote that book. Even Sorensen acknowledged this…
JFK LIbrary, where all good liberals go to feed their egos.
Why can’t they just say “claims”? It HAS to be “false claims” as if that was ever proved. They will never convince me 2020 wasn’t stolen.
How about Coward of the Country Award?
Pence has the same kind of courage as Teddy Kennedy.
“Trump’s former VP Mike Pence receives JFK Courage Award”
pence can take that off his vanity wall and show it at any Starbucks in the USA and buy a cup of burnt coffee for only three and a half bucks ...
Pence got a multimillion dollar book deal days after Biden got inaugurated. Coincidence?
Pence is deep state all the way.
Talk about riding a dead horse.
There have been several silver linings to the 2020 election outcome - for one thing, if Trump had stayed in office, Pence would probably have been the GOP nominee for president last November.
The PT 109 story was made up too.
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