Donald Trump ‘Is the Same as Joe Biden’: Mike Pence Blasts Former President

In a wide-ranging interview published on Saturday, Republican presidential candidate Mike Pence condemned Donald Trump for holding the same position as President Joe Biden on certain issues.

“Donald Trump’s policy is the same as Joe Biden’s. I mean, they both have refused to engage in any discussion about reforming Social Security and Medicare,” the former vice president told the New York Post.

Pence spoke about his friendship with the former president in the past tense and condemned Trump’s attempt to blame the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last summer for the disappointing results of the midterm election. “My former running mate has taken to blaming overturning Roe versus Wade for election losses of ’22, suggesting that pro-life legislation in states around the country is too harsh.”

“I was always loyal to President Trump,” Pence told the Post. “[R]ight up until when my loyalty to the Constitution required me to do otherwise,” the former Indiana governor added, referring to the January 6 attack on the Capitol and Trump’s claims that the 2020 presidential election was plagued by widespread voter fraud.

Pence later widened his attack to the broader field of Republican presidential candidates criticizing their positions on the war in Ukraine and foreign policy. “When I look at where my former running mate and frankly, others in the field want to take our party,” Pence told the Post, “as war rages in Eastern Europe, my former running mate and others in this primary would diminish America’s obligation as the leader of the free world and the arsenal of democracy.”

The former vice president also vowed to overhaul the Department of Justice if he were to win the Republican nomination and become president. “The American people have lost confidence in the Department of Justice. And if I’m president of the United States on day one, we’re going to clean house on the top floor of the Department of Justice and bring in a whole new group of people.”

In the interview, Pence further singled out George Soros, the billionaire liberal backer, deriding him as a “puppet master and maintained that he would remove FBI Director Christopher Wray on his first day in office.

The interview comes just ten days after Pence formally entered the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race. “Different times call for different leadership. Today, our party and our country need a leader who will appeal, as Lincoln said, to the better angels of our nature,” he announced in a campaign launch video in early June.

“Today, our country’s in a lot of trouble. President Joe Biden and the radical left have weakened America at home and abroad,” Pence says as ominous images flash on screen. “The American dream is being crushed under runaway inflation. Wages are dropping. Recession is looming. Our Southern border is under siege and the enemies of freedom are on the march around the world. And worse still, timeless American values are under assault as never before. We’re better than this.”