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Boston, Massachusetts – Former Vice President Mike Pence was awarded on Sunday night for his actions on January 6, 2021, giving up his president at that time Donald Trump.
Penes received the John F. Kennedy Prize in courage for refusing to fulfill Trump’s request to throw away the results of the 2020 presidential election, and instead controlled the certification in Congress on the victory of former President Joe Biden’s election college.
“Vice -President Pence put his life career and his family on the line to fulfill his constitutional duties. His actions have retained the fundamental democratic principle of free and fair elections, and we honor him,” said former Ambassador Carolyn Kennedy, daughter of the late president.
Penes, accepting the annual award, emphasized that it is “the difference I will appreciate for the rest of my life.”
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Former Vice President Mike Pence recognizes his staff when he performs after receiving the John F. Kennedy Prize in courage during the JFK library, Sunday, May 4, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
And the former vice -president, pointing to his actions on January 6, said that the ovation: “I will always believe God’s grace that I did my duty that day.”
In a digital interview Fox News a few minutes after the award ceremony, Pence said: “In all my travels across the country over the past four years I have been deeply humiliated for how many Americans came to me and just came to us to encourage us and it convinces me that American people It stands. “
Currently, 65-year-old pence was the Governor of Indiana when Trump called him his partner in 2016. For four years, Pence served as true Vice President of Trump during the first president in the White House.
However, everything changed on January 6, 2021, as right-wing extremists, including some chanting “hang Mike Pence”-EPCRUned in the US Capitol, seeking to increase the certification in Congress, which is controlled by PENS within its constitutional duties, vice president, vice president, vice president Victory at Biden’s Electoral College.
A Attack on the Capitol It was short after Trump talked with a big rally of supporters near the White House on unproven statements that the 2020 elections were “rigged” from the large -scale voter.
Pence has long described the tough attack on the capitol as “tragic” and dishonest to “millions of people who supported our business across the country.” He emphasized that he did the “right thing” and fulfilled his “duty under the Constitution.” He also noted many times that he and Trump never “see his eyes on this day.”
In this photo on January 6, 2021, participants of the action, committed to President Donald Trump, assault the Capitol in Washington, Columbia County (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
While the pence, his family and the main aides were hastily moved by the secret service agents when the riots wandered through the Capitol’s halls, Trump claimed in a message on social media that “Mike Pence had no courage to do what it was necessary to protect our country and our Constitution The inaccurates they asked, what they asked, and they were requested who were requested, the requested requested, which were requested who were requested, which were requested, which were requested. “
Pence rejected the secret service advice that he escaped from the Capitol, and after the riots were eventually removed from the Capitol, he resumed his constitutional role in control of the Congress certification ceremony.
The former vice -president has repeatedly denied Trump’s statement that he could cancel the election results. Despite this, Hardkor Loyalists of Trump never forgive the pence they see as a traitor, refusing to assist the president’s re -efforts to cancel the 2020 elections.
On June 7, 2023, former Vice -President Mike Pence officially announced his candidacy in Anceni, Iowa. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
In June 2023, Pens launched its own presidential campaign, joining the large sphere of contenders to Trump Holing for the GOP 2024 nomination, becoming the first head for 80 years, who had passed against his former boss.
Pence ran on the traditional conservative platform, creating the Republican Party’s future against what he called the rise of “populism” in the party.
Among the slim base against Trump, the Republican Party of Pence received praise for courage during the attack on the Capitols, often thanks to the town halls during the Trump’s confrontation.
While Pence was regularly campaigning in the decisive states of early voting in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, his White House’s application never took off. Struggling in the election and fundraising, he suspended his campaign only four and a half months after the announcement of his candidacy.
Former Vice President Mike Pence performs after receiving the John F. Kenny Prize in Courage, at the JFK Library in Boston, Massachusetts, May 4, 2025. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
The reward in the profile in courage is called the book by the late John F. Kennedy, published in 1957 before he became president.
The award honors state officials who accept fundamental stands, despite potential political or personal consequences. Among the previous recipients were former presidents Barack Obama, George H. Bush and Gerald Ford.
Jack Schlosberg, the grandson of JFK, who presented the former vice -president at the awards ceremony, said Penes “saved America that day.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence, the second case, stands with his wife Karen Pence, far away when he is awarded at the John F. Kennedy Prize in the courage of Jack Schlosberg and his mother Caroline Kennedy, at the JFK library, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Caroline Kennedy, honoring the former vice -president, noted her “political differences” with pens, but emphasized that “political courage is not outdated in the US.”
And Pens, a well -known fiscal and social conservative, joked about the speech to the audience, where the Democrats prevail, saying that he was “a minority in this hall”.
After giving up his own application for the White House, Pence refused to approve Trump, even after Trump was nominating GOP last spring, although he congratulated his former partner after winning November last year.
Trump and Pence were noticed as their hands were shook at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter in early January – their first public performance together for almost four years.
Trump, Pence shaking his hand at Carter’s funeral at the first public meeting after his position
Former Vice President Al Gore (left) watches on how former Vice President Mike Pence (in the center) shakes the hand of the then elected President Donald Trump before the state funeral service for the late President Jimmy Carter in the National Cathedral of Washington in Washington, the Columbus County, 925, 2025 AFP) (Photo Mandel-Nizhn / AF-AF-AF-AF-AFAF-AF-AF-AF-AFAF-AF-AF-AFA-AFA-AF-AF-AF-AIKS) (Getti Image)
Pence acted as a rare vocal republican critic of Trump so far during the second presidential service in the White House.
It criticizes the controversial and random implementation of Trump’s mass tariffs on the largest trading partners in America, which initially caused a mass sale on the stock market and caused concern about increasing inflation and recession conversations.
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He also criticized that the president is giving an ancient US foreign policy and urged Trump to stand with long -standing international allies.
A group of public propaganda pens, promoting American freedom, also agitated against Robert F. Kennedy -Youth. to head medical institutions of the country.
