Former Vice President Mike Pence referred to as on his former boss, Donald Trump, to make an apology on Monday as GOP backlash to the former president’s dinner with anti-Semitism-spewing rapper Kanye West and neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes continues to develop.

Pence joined anchor Leland Vittert for an interview airing Monday night on his NewsNation application On Steadiness with Leland Vittert.

“President Trump was once mistaken to present a white nationalist an anti-Semite and a Holocaust denier a seat on the table. And I believe he will have to make an apology for it and he will have to denounce those individuals and their hateful rhetoric with out qualification,” Pence advised Vittert, commenting on the dinner.

“With that being said, as I level out within the book as well, I, I don’t consider Donald Trump is an anti-Semite. I don’t believe he’s a racist or a bigot. I should not have been his vice chairman if he used to be. And, you know, individuals ceaselessly forget the president’s daughter converted to Judaism,” Pence persevered, noting how Jared Kushner used to be “a devout Jew” and his youngsters with Ivanka Trump have been Jewish too.

Pence denounced “the broad brush of attack that media leveled at [Trump,” however still mentioned the previous president will have to ask for forgiveness: “I think the president validated profoundly poor judgment in giving those individuals a seat at the table. And as I mentioned, I think he will have to say sorry for it. You should denounce them without qualification.”

Pence’s name for Trump to ask for forgiveness is the most distinguished condemnation from a prime Republican but of Trump’s meeting with West and Fuentes.

Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, tore into Trump on Monday, becoming a member of Sen. Invoice Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), and Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) in condemning Trump for assembly Fuentes.

Watch above, by means of On Balance with Leland Vittert on NewsNation.

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