Mike Pence Claims The Trump Administration Is Turning A Blind Eye To Key Issue

Ever since leaving the White House former Vice President Mike Pence has continued taking jabs at the Trump administration.

On Friday, Pence was invited on Real Time with Bill Maher and was asked what he thinks about abortion pills.

Pence in response took the moment to claim that the Trump administration has turned a “blind eye” on the issue entirely.

He then took aim at RFK Jr. and shared it was disappointing that Trump appointed Kennedy who is an “abortion rights supporter” to lead the Health and Human Services Department.

Mediaite reported more on Pence’s response to Maher and revealed Maher later invited the former vice president to get high with him:

Comedian and pundit Bill Maher invited former Vice President Mike Pence to come on his Club Random podcast and get super-high with him, as is the custom.

On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guest was former Vice President Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States and author of “What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience.”

The panel guests were Senator Chris Murphy, Democratic senator from Connecticut and author of the new book “Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America”; and Susan Rice, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, former U.S. National Security Advisor, and former Director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Maher wrapped up the interview by expressing understanding for abortion opponents and asking if the abortion pill should be outlawed — then extending the blunt invitation:

FORMER VP MIKE PENCE: It’s been a disappointment to me and other pro-lifers that this administration has turned a blind eye to that issue entirely. In fact, it’s appointing an abortion rights supporter to lead the Health and Human Services Department.

So it was part of the impetus for me writing what conservatives believe, because I really do believe that, at the end of the day, the Republican Party ought to offer a choice, not an echo.

Look, I never begrudge anybody, you included, of having liberal views. That’s what America is all about. You can believe what you believe. I’ll believe what I believe. And as long as we conduct each other with the golden rule, we’ll find our way forward.

BILL MAHER: I feel like you are the standard for me because I like of all the people Challenge myself and be friendly with you were probably as far on the other side as me and I hope we can keep that up.

I want you to do Club Random, my podcast, and get super high with me. Would you do that?

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We’ll just kick it.

FORMER VP MIKE PENCE: I’ll do the podcast!

BILL MAHER: You’ll think about it. All right, thank you. Mike Pence, everybody. Thank you, Mr. Vice President, and good luck with the book.

Mike Pence later shared he has not talked to President Trump in a while:

Decider reported later in the interview that Pence was not happy with some pardons made by President Trump:

Former Vice President Mike Pence revisited one of the most defining moments of his political career during Friday night’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, where a conversation about President Donald Trump‘s sweeping Jan. 6 pardons quickly turned to the Capitol riot itself — and the mob that famously called for Pence to be hanged.

Maher raised the subject while arguing that Americans should be able to separate the actions of different groups of people who were at the Capitol that day.

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“I mean, it seems like we could so many of these things we could come to some agreement with the middle,” Maher said. Referring to Trump’s decision to pardon participants in the riot, he suggested that some people may have been there without the same intentions as those who turned violent.

But Maher also drew a distinction between those attendees and, as he put it, “the ones who wanted to hang you.”

“Can we say those were bad people?” he asked Pence.

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The former vice president didn’t leave much room for interpretation.

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“Well, Bill, you know, I made it clear. I had no problem with the president pardoning people who got caught up in that day,” Pence responded. “But for anyone who assaulted a police officer, anybody that violated and vandalized the seat of our government, and sought to disrupt the counting of electoral college votes, those people never should have been pardoned, and they should never get a dime.”

Take a look:

Bill Maher: Can we say some bad people were there, like the ones who wanted to hang you?

Mike Pence: Anyone who assaulted a police officer, sought to disrupt the counting of Electoral College votes, never should have been pardoned. I never felt a greater sense of resolve any day… pic.twitter.com/6IIVAYRV06

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