President
Donald Trump extolled the virtues of his vice president's marriage in the wake
of a controversy over a comment Mike Pence made over a decade ago.
President
Donald Trump extolled the virtues of his vice president's marriage on Friday in
the wake of a controversy over a comment Mike Pence made over a decade ago
about a rule he has for dining with women.
During an
executive order signing ceremony, with Pence standing beside him at the podium,
Trump said Pence had "one hell of a good marriage."
"Our vice
president, I think I'm speaking for both but I'm not 100% sure," Trump
said in an apparent reference to Pence and his wife, to which Pence replied,
"Yes you are."
"I will
tell you one thing, he has one hell of a good marriage going," Trump
continued.
Trump made the
comments about Pence's marriage in light criticism stemming from a Washington
Post profile of his wife, Karen, that was published earlier this week. The
controversy surrounded one sentence in the story: "In 2002, Mike Pence
told the Hill that he never eats alone with a woman other than his wife and
that he won't attend events featuring alcohol without her by his side,
either."
Some critics
called Pence's rule sexist because it could exclude women from certain
professional opportunities. Others, however, have rallied behind Pence as an
example of a man determined to preserve his marriage.
The Post
profile detailed Pence's close relationship with his wife.
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