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Mike Pence’s Evasive Answer About Contact Between Trump Campaign And Russia Should Set Off Alarm Bells
CHRIS WALLACE (FOX): So, I’m asking a direct question: was there any contact in any way between Trump or his associates and the Kremlin or cutouts they had?
PENCE: I joined this campaign in the summer, and I can tell you that all the contact by the Trump campaign and associates was with the American people. We were fully engaged with taking his message to make America great again all across this country. That’s why he won in a landslide election.
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: -- if there were any contacts, sir, I’m just trying to get an answer.
PENCE: Yes. I—of course not. Why would there be any contacts between the campaign?
Chris, the—this is all a distraction, and it’s all part of a narrative to delegitimize the election and to question the legitimacy of this presidency, the American people see right through it.
WALLACE: OK.
PENCE: And truthfully, this is a week—you know, I just sat on with our transition team in Washington yesterday, we have—we’ve named 20 out of 21 of our candidate officials, probably have all of them named before we get to inauguration day. The caliber and character of men and women that the president-elect has assembled, the hundreds and hundreds of interviews and conversations he himself has had, I think should be deeply inspiring to millions of Americans. And they know when he raises his right hand on that inaugural platform this coming Friday, that he is going to be ready on day one to keep his promises to the American people to turn this country around.
CHRIS WALLACE (FOX): So, I’m asking a direct question: was there any contact in any way between Trump or his associates and the Kremlin or cutouts they had?
PENCE: I joined this campaign in the summer, and I can tell you that all the contact by the Trump campaign and associates was with the American people. We were fully engaged with taking his message to make America great again all across this country. That’s why he won in a landslide election.
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: -- if there were any contacts, sir, I’m just trying to get an answer.
PENCE: Yes. I—of course not. Why would there be any contacts between the campaign?
Chris, the—this is all a distraction, and it’s all part of a narrative to delegitimize the election and to question the legitimacy of this presidency, the American people see right through it.
WALLACE: OK.
PENCE: And truthfully, this is a week—you know, I just sat on with our transition team in Washington yesterday, we have—we’ve named 20 out of 21 of our candidate officials, probably have all of them named before we get to inauguration day. The caliber and character of men and women that the president-elect has assembled, the hundreds and hundreds of interviews and conversations he himself has had, I think should be deeply inspiring to millions of Americans. And they know when he raises his right hand on that inaugural platform this coming Friday, that he is going to be ready on day one to keep his promises to the American people to turn this country around.