Pence blasts media for focusing on Trump

Gov. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) blasted the media Tuesday night, accusing news outlets of blowing out of proportion remarks Donald Trump made about “Second Amendment people” stopping Hillary Clinton from nominating judges.

{mosads}“It seems like every single day the national press latches on to some other issue about my running mate, just each and every day of the week,” Pence said at a rally in Pittsburgh, according to Politico. “But you know what they’re not talking about? Anything having to do with Hillary Clinton.”

He complained that the media is not talking about the fact that Seddique Mateen, the father of a gunman who killed 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando earlier this year, attended a rally for Hillary Clinton this week.

“And he said he was there because he supports Hillary Clinton because she’s, quote, ‘good on national security,’” Pence added. “Now the media’s not talking about that, I expect because Hillary Clinton’s been a disaster on national security.”

Earlier on Tuesday, Trump suggested that gun owners would be able to stop Clinton from nominating judges after she was elected president.

“By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks,” Trump said. “Though the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”

The comment was widely criticized by Democrats and some Republicans, but Pence came to Trump’s defense shortly before the Pittsburgh rally, saying that the mogul was merely trying to rally gun owners to exercise their political power.

“I think what Donald Trump is clearly saying was that people who cherish that right, people who believe that firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens make our communities more safe, not less safe, should be involved in the political process and let their voice be heard,” the Indiana governor told an NBC reporter in Lancaster, Pa.