A while ago an Olympic athlete Adam Rippon accused VP Mike Pence of wanting gay people to undergo “conversion therapy”
According to a report published by USA Today on Wednesday, a member of Pence’s staff reached out to the U.S. Olympic Committee to set up a conversation between the 58-year-old politician and the 28-year-old athlete back in January.
The alleged request came the same day USA Today published an interview with Rippon in which he said he wanted to skip the standard meet-and-greet event between Team USA athletes and the American delegation, which is being led by Pence for this year’s opening ceremony.
“You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy?” Rippon, who publicly came out as gay in 2015, said in the Jan. 17 piece. “I’m not buying it.”
In a statement to PEOPLE back in January, Pence’s press secretary, Alyssa Farah, said that the vice president does not and has never supported conversion therapy. “The accusation is totally false with no basis in fact,” Farah said.
“Despite these misinformed claims [about conversion therapy], the vice president will be enthusiastically supporting all the U.S. athletes competing next month in Pyeongchang,” Farrah said.
VP Pence wanted to have an honest conversation with this young man about the misconceptions and lies floating around about him.
The guy couldn’t face him like a man.
Whoopi thinks that’s because facing Pence would have been like ‘Jewish person sitting with a Nazi’
Yes, really:
These liberal morons REALLY don’t get how awful it makes them look when they keep comparing Republicans to Nazis, do they?
Whoopi Goldberg compared Olympian Adam Rippon talking to Vice President Mike Pence to a Jewish person talking to a Nazi. Whoopi, read a book and educate yourself on the Holocaust before you trivialize the murder of millions of Jewish people.
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) February 8, 2018
smh – seriously….her braids are too tight
— Donna L. Kelly (@sisdonnak) February 8, 2018
Hollywood lefties specialize in inappropriate virtue signaling.
— Carol B (@CarolJo44) February 8, 2018
Guess that’s the view from the bottom of the ditch.
— Robert Clark (@RobertHWhanna) February 8, 2018
So gross.