He had forced Pence to protect his own political future by distancing himself from Trump's worst statements or by denying them outright.
He shows how Irving hid some of the worst statements about the Jews in footnotes, or mistranslated the German to make them sound almost innocuous.
"It is the worst possible statement about their sincerity in terms of coming to an agreement," Mr. Lazio said.
Any comparison of this tradition to the reprehensible and barbaric practice of female genital mutilation is either appalling ignorance, at best, or defamation and anti-religious hatred at worst," the statement said.
At worst the statement is downright cynicism, at best self-serving self-deception.
First, it asserted that they were only opinions and, at worst, constituted statements investors would not take seriously — essentially, the salesman's assertion that no one believes a product really is the "best," "fastest" or "revolutionary".
The worst personal statements are always the ones that haven't been proofread, she said.
At worst, his statements on Islam might have been an overgeneralization of certain facts, perhaps taken out of context or made without reference to political or global realities.
Staff writers at PolitiFact, which rates claims based on a sliding scale that swings from "True" to "Pants on Fire," agreed that Clinton's worst-rated statements often had to do with her email server, though not always.
"The decision to lift the trophy ban reeks of political expediency at it worst," the elephants' statement read.
