Former Vice President Mike Pines was honored by the JFK family with a prestigious prize

Boston, Massachusetts – Former Vice President Mike Pines was honored on Sunday evening because of his actions on January 6, 2021, in his challenge at the time, the President, Donald Trump.

Pence was awarded the John F. Kennedy is the courage for his refusal to honor Trump’s request to put forward the results of the 2020 presidential elections, and instead supervised the Congress certificate of former President Joe Biden’s victory.

Former Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late President Kennedy, said in presenting Pence with this award.

Pence stressed, in accepting the annual award, that “a distinction I will cherish for the rest of my life.”

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“I will always believe in the grace of God that I did my duty on that day,” said the former vice president, who referred to his actions on January 6, to a permanent applause.

In a digital interview for Fox News minutes after the award ceremony, Pence said: “On all my trips all over the country in the past four years, I felt very humble by the number of Americans who reached me and took a point to encourage us and support us, and that it brings me to the American people know that the differences that we may have ever had, the constitution is the common land that we do.”

Bens, 65, was an Indiana ruler when Trump named his companion in 2016. For a period of four years, Pence was held as the Deputy of Trump’s loyal president during the term of the first president at the White House.

However, everything changed on January 6, 2021, when the right-wing extremists-including some “Hang Mike Pnce” chants-stormed the American Capitol that aims to increase the Certificate of Congress, which Pence supervised as part of his constitutional duties as vice president, Biden Electoral College Victory.

the The attack on the Capitol Soon after Trump spoke to a large march of supporters near the White House, it occurred about the unprotected allegations that the 2020 elections are “forged” because of the huge “fraud of voters”.

Pence has long described the violent attack on Capitol as “tragic” and filming “millions of people who supported our cause throughout the country.” He emphasized that he did the “right thing” and performing his “duty under the constitution.” He also indicated several times that he and Trump may not “never see that day.”

While Pence, his family and senior assistants were hurriedly moved by the secret service agents where rioters wandered in the Capitol halls, Trump argued in a post on social media that “Mike Pines did not have the courage to do what he had to do to protect our country and our constitution previously.”

Pence rejected the secret service advice that he was escaping from the Capitol, and after the ultimately removal of the Capitol, he resumed his constitutional role in overseeing the Congress Certificate.

The former vice president has repeatedly refuted Trump’s claim that he could cancel the results of the presidential elections. Nevertheless, Trump’s hardline loyalists have never forgiven Pence, who considered him a traitor, for their refusal to help the president’s repeated efforts to cancel the election results for 2020.

In June 2023, Pence launched his own presidential campaign, as he joined a large field of competitors of Trump Gunning to nominate the Republican Party for the year 2024, becoming the first colleague in running in more than 80 years to run against their former president.

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

Among a slim base to combat Trump the Republican Party, Pence received his courage while attacking the Capitol, and he often thanks the city’s halls during his campaign to stand up to Trump.

While Pence regularly carried out a campaign in the states of Iowa and New Hampsheer and South Carolina South Carolina, his show was not launched in the White House. He was struggling with the polls and with the collection of donations, he taught his campaign only and a half months after announcing his candidacy.

The ID Award was named in the courage in the name of the book published by the late John F. Kennedy in 1957 before he became president.

The award honors public officials who take preliminary stands despite the political or possible consequences. Among the former beneficiaries were former presidents Barack Obama, George Harrap Bush and Gerald Ford.

“Save America that day,” said Jack Shalosburg, the grandson of JFK, who presented the former Vice President at the award ceremony.

Caroline Kennedy noticed, in honoring the former vice president, “her political differences” with Pence, but confirmed that “political courage is not old in the United States.”

Pence, the well -known financial and social governor, jokingly about speaking to an audience dominated by Democrats, saying that it is “the minority in this room.”

After dropping his own White House’s attempt, Pence refused to support Trump, even after Trump got the nomination of the Republican Party last spring, although he congratulated his former colleague in running after his victory last November.

Trump and Bens were seen playing the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter in early January – their first public appearance in nearly four years.

Trump, Pence shakes hands in Carter a funeral at the first public meeting since he left his post

Pence has emerged as a rare Republican critic to Trump so far during the second round of the President at the White House.

Trump’s controversial and ambiguous implementation of the massive customs tariff for the largest commercial partners in America, initially criticized a huge sale in the stock market, and raised fears of increasing inflation and talking about stagnation.

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He also criticized the president’s long -term raising and urged Trump to stand with international allies for a long time.

The General Da`wah Group in Pence, which made American freedom, made a campaign against Robert F. Kennedy Junior. To lead the nation’s health agencies.