Former Vice President Mike Pines criticized President Donald Trump’s approach to definitions, as well as many foreign policy initiatives, In an interview with NBC News’ Meet the Press “Sunday broadcast.
“The initial mutual definitions that unveiled it will be the largest tax increase in the time of peace on the American people in the history of this country,” said Pinstin Christine Wilker.
A few days later, the president stopped most of the definitions, a step, Pens said on Friday, “Happy” with a vision.
The interview covered a wide range of topics – Pence opened with the broad administration of the Trump administration, and the President praised the “securing the southern borders in a historical way” and arranging military action against the Houthis in Yemen, among other things.
“But in the midst of all of this, I saw some departure from the policies of our administration at home and abroad alike,” Pens pointed out. The “reluctant support” of Ukraine mentioned the first 100 days of Trump’s second state and criticized one potential vision of a nuclear agreement with Iran. He was particularly critical of Trump’s tariff.
The former vice president said that his primary interest in the current Trump plan, which is to negotiate commercial deals that could include customs tariffs on most countries, will lead to high prices of Americans.
He added that the current plan for the president is “completely different” on how Trump’s first administration worked, as Pence worked as a vice president.
“We strongly used the threat of customs tariffs as negotiations, Christine,” Pens said, adding: “What I see in this administration is a fixed campaign towards a basic line, perhaps up to 10 % of the tariff that I think will be harmful to jobs in America. It will be harmful to consumers in America.”
Pence also criticized the repeated Trump line about those who pay the definitions when it is imposed.
“As the president told me several times, he has a feeling that other countries pay a tariff,” when the reality is, when Americans buy goods abroad, the company that imports these goods in this country pays the tariff and often passes at the high prices of consumers. “
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When asked if he objected to the definitions of some of the consumer goods imposed by Trump during his first term, Pens admitted that he might have had, but separately.
“Maybe I did in the corridors, but the president makes the decision,” Penis said.
“When you are the Vice President of the United States, my view is always: I will prefer the president, with the full group of my opinion,” Pines said. “After that when he made the decision, my job was to support his decision in the absence of some supreme invitation or the highest commitment to his existence.”
Earlier in the interview, Pence also talked about the lawyer that Trump hopes for those around him now, including Vice President JD Vance.
Pence said: “President Trump was not my head,” Pence said.
“I have seized the opportunity in the correct settings, special moments, to participate with him in those times when we differed in issues.” “And I hope, whether it is the vice president or others, that there are those voices about the president who does the same.”
The former vice president was reduced when he was asked how he thinks that the current vice president is doing his job, as Pence simply says that he “will have difficulty evaluating this accurately, but [Vance is] Supervisor. “
Foreign policy
Pens also talked about Trump’s approach to foreign policy in this term. Wilker told it a “bad idea” that the president accepts a plane as a gift from the Qatari royal family, amid reports that Trump was planning to do so, and he was criticizing Trump’s speech in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The former Vice President also asked about the Trump administration’s approach to Iran, as senior US officials are seeking to reach an agreement with Iran to possess the country with nuclear technology and nuclear technology.
Pence said it was concerned about reports that Iran is seeking to maintain a civil nuclear program, which told Wilker that the United States “should clarify in negotiations with Iran that its current nuclear program must be dismantled or destroyed.”
“I am grateful because President Trump has repeated our administration’s policy, and that Iran will not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. America’s security, Israel’s security, the stability of the region and the world demands that we demand this. The first year of our administration.”
Pence added: “We need to explain to them that America does not deceive, and that we will not allow them to continue enriching uranium.”
In response to a question about whether the attack against Iran should be on the table as an option to push it to dismantle his nuclear program, “Bens said:” Of course. I think all options should be on the table. “
Pence also said he believed that additional sanctions against Russia should be on the table as Trump is seeking the end of the country’s war in Ukraine, although the administration said these threats would harm the talks it had.
Pence said: “I met Vladimir Putin. My ruling is Vladimir Putin only understands power.”
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“I don’t see this in my future,” Pence said, “When asked if he might run for the presidency again, after he sought the White House in 2023 without gaining a lot of traction before he left the race. Trump’s break during the results of the 2020 elections, which Trump has repeatedly claimed and falsified, was also affected by his political position in the Republican Party.
Pence said Trump was wrong to issue a blanket amnesty of people who faced charges to participate in the Capitol riot on January 6.
“I will always believe in the grace of God, I have done my duty on that day to support and defend the United States’ constitution and see the peaceful transfer of power,” Pins said.
“But the individuals who stormed the Capitol, who assaulted the police officers, said that day and I think it should have been prosecuted at this moment to the maximum of the law.”
