Posted on 09/21/16
| News Source: VIN
Washington - Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence is defending the son of his running mate after Donald Trump Jr. compared Syrian refugees to poisoned candy.
Pence told MSNBC in an interview Tuesday that the younger Trump was simply using a “metaphor.”
Trump Jr. posted on his social media account Monday the image of a bowl of multicolored candies called Skittles. He asked his Twitter followers, “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?”
Trump’s father is Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. He has called for suspending the refugee program that admits Syrians fleeing the war-torn country once they clear a vetting process that both Trump men suggest is non-existent and admits terrorists.
Pence said it is “remarkable to see the level of outrage” about the tweet when Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has called for admitting more refugees to the United States.
This screenshot shows the tweet posted on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, by Donald Trump Jr., in which he compares Syrian refugees to a bowl of poisoned Skittles. The post caused a stir and negative tweets on the internet into Tuesday, including a terse response from Skittles parent company, Wrigley Americas. "Skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We don't feel it's an appropriate analogy," Vice President of Corporate Affairs Denise Young said in the statement. (Twitter via AP)