“Well, like many Americans, I'm just, I'm taken aback,” Mike_Pence said of the prospect of his former boss being indicted and arrested next week. 'This is what the ManhattanDA says is their top priority?”
On Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday program, Pence said he was “taken aback” at the news former President Donald Trump could be indicted and arrested. Trump announced on Saturday morning he was expected to be arrested on Tuesday on charges relating to hush-money payments he made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, during his first campaign for president.“Well, like many Americans, I'm just, I'm taken aback,” Pence told host Matt Boyle.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy promised to open an investigation into Bragg’s office to determine whether federal funds have been diverted to the attempt to prosecute Trump. Pence kept the stream of attacks up in his radio appearance, raising the specter of one of Trump’s greatest grievances while he was in office.
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