Mike Pence Says Tsunami Of Allegations Against Trump Are NBD

By Stephen Gossett in News on Oct 14, 2016 3:23PM

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets Indiana Gov. Mike Pence at the Grand Park Events Center on July 12, 2016. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

You can breathe a sigh of relief, soul of America. Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence told the TODAY show on Friday morning that evidence that will disprove allegations against Donald Trump are forthcoming later today.

Whew. For a second there it sure seemed like the GOP had nominated a misogynistic, child-sexualizing predator for president. Thank the gay-pizza-hating Gods that’ll all be cleared up.

Pence has been in full damage control mode since last evening, but his efforts to cauterize the bloodletting have been less than inspired.

On Thursday he railed against Trump’s most hated political lobbying organization: the news. Politico wrote:

The Republican vice presidential nominee slammed reporters for spending so much time on “unsubstantiated allegations against my running mate, allegations that he has categorically denied,” rather than focusing on “the corruption and the deceit of the Clintons and the Clinton machine.”

Pence tried again Friday morning to deflect questions about a wave of allegations against the dead man walking at the top of his ticket, vainly attempting to turn the conversation toward the Clinton Foundation and, you guessed it, emails. And when asked about the stirring reproach First Lady Michelle Obama delivered on Thursday, Pence said he didn’t get her point.

“Look I have a lot of respect for the first lady. But I don’t understand the basis of her claim.”

(Pence's FLOTUS comments begin at approximately 4:40 in the video below.)

He was pressed, but Pence continued to downplay. CBS writes:

“You don’t believe his language was ‘sexually predatory?’” co-host Norah O’Donnell asked Pence, quoting Obama’s words when she slammed Trump for “bragging about sexually assaulting women.”

Pence, who just last week said in a statement that he was “offended” by Trump’s lewd 2005 recordings and “cannot defend” them, added this: “I already spoke about my concerns in the language he used in that 11-year-old video, but what he’s made it clear is that was talk. Regrettable talk on his part. But that there were no actions.”

But Pence’s most bizarre evasion came in an interview with WBNS-Ohio anchor Scott Light. When asked about an 11-year-old girl’s unprompted expression that Trump’s rhetoric makes “me feel bad about myself,” Pence saw an opportunity to glide into… some vintage, Dubya-style terror panic?