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Mike Pence’s Final Trump Brag Gets Hit With An Immediate Fact-Check
Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday tried to brag about one of the supposed military accomplishments of President Donald Trump.
It didn’t go well.
Pence boasted that the Trump administration didn’t get in any new wars.
“That’s Peace through Strength,” he tweeted:
I’m proud to report with just a few days left in our Administration, our Administration is the first in decades that did not get America into a new war. That’s Peace through Strength. pic.twitter.com/uiSNxi67aT
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) January 18, 2021
But as Pence’s critics quickly pointed out, the Trump administration is currently in a losing battle with the coronavirus, which has sickened nearly 24 million and killed close to 400,000 Americans.
There’s also another issue: Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol earlier this month in a violent and deadly insurrection egged on by the president that turned the halls of Congress into a virtual war zone.
That violence, and the threat of new violence, has led to a massive military presence in Washington, D.C., ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden this week.
Twitter users offered up some corrections to Pence’s claim:
Except civil. https://t.co/yBouj8S2dR
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 17, 2021
Does someone else want to tell him? Or should I?
We've been at war for 11 days.
And he and Donald Trump cannot leave soon enough. https://t.co/8tAk33JJ1G— Rochelle Riley (@rochelleriley) January 18, 2021
Instead we killed nearly 400,000 Americans https://t.co/CRgxo5UQbP
— rabia O'chaudry (@rabiasquared) January 18, 2021
They went to war with America https://t.co/8BKQkKtzAs
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) January 18, 2021
we lost a war to germs my dude https://t.co/E9NENaAU92
— Mike Young (@mikeyoung44) January 18, 2021
...there are 25,000 National Guard Troops in DC. #ReadTheRoomhttps://t.co/ceq0SSTMSJ
— Stephanie Brumsey (@SABrumsey) January 18, 2021
