Pence, in an interview Monday, said the former president had 'demonstrated profoundly poor judgment.'
Still, Pence, who is considering his own potential run against his former boss, said he does not believe Trump is antisemitic or racist and said he would not have served as Trump's vice president if he was.
"If he wasn't familiar with him, then whoever had responsibility for knowing the backgrounds of the people in the room, I hope they are already fired," Tillis told reporters at the Capitol Monday evening.Still others were less equivocal. Others were more dismissive. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a longtime Trump ally, said: "Yeah, the meeting was bad. He shouldn't have done it." But he added that "there's a double standard about this kind of stuff and I don't think it will matter in terms of his political future."
The meeting had already been criticized by prominent Jewish organizations as well as Trump's former ambassador to Israel. But until Monday, few Republicans had weighed in. They included former New Jersey Gov.
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