Pence launched a new podcast Friday, with the first episode commemorating the 9/11 terror attacks. He claimed four times there have been no major terrorist attacks in the US in the last 20 years.
, jihadists have killed 107 people in the US since 9/11, while far right extremists have killed 114.
"The attacks were a gift to peddlers of xenophobia, white supremacism, and Christian nationalism: as dark-skinned Muslim foreigners bent on murdering Americans, al Qaeda terrorists and their ilk seemed to have stepped out of a far-right fever dream," she wrote. "What does it mean to you today to come to the 20th anniversary of September 11th and know that there's been no major terrorist attack on American soil in those 20 years, and that your father played a role in that?" Pence asked Brandi Anderson, whose father died in a mortar attack in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2004.
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