Vice President JD Vance was a busy boy on Sunday, hitting the community exhibits along with his patented mixture of petulance and bullying. Not content material with threatening the nation with an expanded police state, Vance additionally made time to assault former FBI Director James Comey and mislead everybody about “border czar” Tom Homan.
Effectively, at the very least he’s bought some work to do, proper? Provided that deputy chief of employees Stephen Miller seems to truly be the president lately, outdated JD has to say some territory for his personal, proper?
“JD Vance mic drop” by Mike Luckovich
Vance used his time with NBC’s Kristen Welker to make some inflammatory and prejudicial statements about Comey and, for good measure, New York Lawyer Basic Letitia James: “If you look at the fact that James Comey obviously lied under oath, Letitia James obviously committed mortgage fraud.”
Vance’s remarks overtly undercut President Donald Trump’s pet Interim U.S. Lawyer for the Jap District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan. Halligan is dealing with the prosecutions of each Comey and James as a result of nobody else is craven sufficient to take action.
Whereas Vance was declaring Comey and James responsible within the courtroom of public opinion, Halligan was hilariously, incompetently busy demanding a protecting order within the Comey case as a result of “through social media, the Defendant has already made a public statement regarding the indictment.”
Ohhhhkay?
This isn’t the clearest factor ever written, seemingly as a result of Halligan has no expertise with prosecutions, nevertheless it appears to be like like she is saying practically all discovery within the case must be beneath a protecting order and that Comey can’t have entry to the fabric besides by means of his attorneys.
That is vital, per the one-time Florida actual property lawyer, as a result of “both the defendant and the government have an interest in a fair trial with impartial jurors making decisions based only on the evidence that is part of the record.”
Certain, besides that Vance is working his mouth on nationwide TV about how Comey and James are responsible. We’re shocked, SHOCKED that the administration would undercut a good trial for Comey.
Recall that Vance solely cosplays as a salt-of-the-earth nativist man of the folks and is definitely a dude who bought a level from Yale Regulation and have become a enterprise capitalist, which is about as elite as you may get. He is aware of full properly that making statements as to somebody’s guilt—in the midst of the federal government prosecuting them!—is prejudicial, however he doesn’t care. He loves mendacity to your face.
As soon as he determined he knew what Stephanopoulos was speaking about, he went full “oh, so now it’s a crime to get paid?”
“Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services? The FBI has not prosecuted him. I have never seen any evidence that he’s engaged in criminal wrongdoing. Nobody has accused Tom of violating a crime, even the far-left media like yourself.”
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Notably absent from this tirade was a proof of what “services” Homan was being paid for when he bought a paper bag full of money. Additionally, what on earth does “violating a crime” imply, anyway? Man, Yale Regulation has rather a lot to reply for.
Vance is an avatar for the worst pressure of conservative politics lately. He is aware of he’s mendacity. He is aware of you realize he’s mendacity. However he additionally is aware of there’s nothing you are able to do to cease him, so we’re going to need to hold enduring his sneering little face gaslighting us.
