KEENE, N.H. — The husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg mentioned Thursday he hasn’t heard from Mike Pence within the days because the former vice chairman mocked his household, however will proceed to carry him accountable for his phrases.
Chasten Buttigieg was requested on ABC’s “The View” whether or not Pence contacted him after joking at a dinner for journalists and politicians that Pete Buttigieg took “maternity go away” after he and his husband adopted new child twins.
“Pete is the one particular person in human historical past to have a toddler and everybody else will get postpartum despair,” Pence mentioned Saturday on the Gridiron Dinner.
Chasten Buttigieg, who mentioned he doesn’t count on to listen to from Pence, referred to as the remarks “a part of a a lot larger development attacking households.”
“I spoke up as a result of all of us have an obligation to carry individuals accountable for after they say one thing flawed, particularly when it’s misogynistic, particularly when it’s homophobic, and I simply don’t take that when it’s in direction of my household, and I don’t suppose anybody else would, particularly once you deliver a really small, medically fragile little one into it,” he mentioned.
Pence defended his feedback Thursday night time after talking at a Republican Get together dinner in New Hampshire.
“The Gridiron Dinner is a roast. I had lots of jokes directed to me, and I directed lots of jokes to Republicans and Democrats,” he advised reporters. “The one factor I can determine is Pete Buttigieg not solely can’t do his job, however he can’t take a joke.”
