Mike Pence's Flagrant Waste of Taxpayer Money
The vice president spent more than most Americans make in a year traveling to an NFL game to perform a political stunt.
by Conor Friedersdorf
Oct 09, 2017
2 minutes
On Sunday, Vice President Mike Pence made a big show of leaving an NFL game early. He declared himself upset that some players knelt during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner. “I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our flag, or our national anthem," he declared, as if attacking those things was the intent of the athletes.
The NFL players knelt in protest by a prejudiced criminal-justice system.
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