Let’s go all the way back to October of 2017.
It was then that Vice President Mike Pence and his wife attended an Indianapolis Colts game against the San Francisco 49ers. Upon seeing the players take a knee during the national anthem, Pence and his group left. President Donald Trump later tweeted that he asked Pence to leave “if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country.”
Now, come back to Friday.
In response to the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery and the protests that have followed, Pence tweeted, “We will always stand for the right of Americans to peacefully protest and let their voices be heard.”
This was the response:
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