Tag Archives: JD Vance

The New York Times reports: A day after Mr. Vance stunned the Munich Security Conference by telling German leaders to drop their so-called firewall and allow the hard-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, to enter their federal government, Mr. Scholz accused Mr. Vance of effectively violating a commitment to never again allow Germany to be led by fascists who could …

The Washington Post reports: JD Vance made his vice-presidential debut on the global security stage Friday in a scolding speech here, pressing Europe’s centrist leaders to move over to accommodate the rising anti-migration, nationalist voices they have at times sought to block from power. Vance also met with a far-right German leader whom the country’s centrist parties have long sought …

CNN reports: Vice President JD Vance warned on Thursday that the United States could hit Russia with economic and military “tools of leverage” if Russian leader Vladimir Putin doesn’t negotiate a peace deal with Ukraine in good faith. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Vance said the option of sending US troops to Ukraine was “on the table,” as …

Politico reports: European allies are bracing this week for the answer to a question they’ve been dreading to ask: Can they really count on the United States? The continent’s officials will have their first face-to-face encounter with the new Trump administration Friday at a gathering of defense leaders known as the Munich Security Conference. The annual event is usually reserved …

The National Catholic Reporter reports: Pope Francis has written a sweeping letter to the U.S. bishops decrying the “major crisis” triggered by President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans and explicitly rejecting Vice President JD Vance’s attempts to use Catholic theology to justify the administration’s immigration crackdown. “The act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land …

Politico Magazine reports: Over the weekend, Vice President JD Vance delivered a warning shot to the federal judiciary: “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive branch’s legitimate power,” Vance wrote in a post on X. The post — which landed as several federal courts have issued orders temporarily slowing or stopping the Trump administration’s early executive orders — prompted consternation …

Forbes reports: Vice President JD Vance suggested Sunday courts “aren’t allowed” to overrule President Donald Trump and his executive orders after judges across the country have issued orders blocking Trump policies. Vance also shared a post from legal scholar Adrian Vermeule, who claimed, “Judicial interference with legitimate acts of state, especially the internal functioning of a co-equal branch, is a …

“I cannot overstate how much I loathe this emotional blackmail pretending to be concern. My kids, god willing, will be risk takers. They won’t think constantly about whether a flippant comment or a wrong viewpoint will follow them around for the rest of their lives. “They will tell stupid jokes. They will develop views that they later think are wrong …

First, there was this bizarre exchange: Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy asked President Donald Trump about Elon Musk declaring his “straight man” love for him. Doocy asked Trump what First Lady Melania Trump thought of Musk declaring his “straight man” love for the president. DOOCY: Elon Musk says I love Donald Trump as mush as a straight man …

Punchbowl News reports: President Donald Trump has tasked Vice President JD Vance and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz with overseeing a potential sale of TikTok, according to multiple sources on Capitol Hill and the White House. Vance is in charge of “quarterbacking a deal to save TikTok,” according to a source familiar with the matter. Waltz and the National Security …

“So here’s the thing I think a lot of folks don’t appreciate about Greenland: it’s really important to our national security. There are sea lanes there that the Chinese use, that the Russians use that, frankly, Denmark – which controls Greenland – it’s not doing its job and being a good ally. “So you have to ask yourself, how are …

“The president made very clear that he wasn’t blaming anybody, but he was being very explicit about the fact that DEI policies have led our air traffic controllers to be short staffed. That is a scandal. Thankfully, it’s a scandal that the president has stopped. “We have a massive shortage of air traffic controllers. And in fact, there have been …

“Something the president said that I think bears reemphasizing, which is that when you don’t have the best standards in who you’re hiring, it means, on the one hand, you’re not getting the best people in government, but on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there. “And I think that is a core part …

ABC News reports: Buckley Carlson, a former Capitol Hill aide and the son of conservative media personality Tucker Carlson, is set to join Vice President JD Vance’s press office, sources tell ABC News. The younger Carlson is set to serve as Vance’s deputy press secretary, sources said. Buckley Carlson has worked as an aide on Capitol Hill since 2019, including …

Axios reports: Vice President Vance said in an interview aired Sunday that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has “not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement” after the assembly condemned several of President Trump’s executive orders. A number of Christian organizations rebuked Trump’s immigration executive orders in the days after his inauguration, noting how they violate core …

CNN reports: The Senate narrowly voted to confirm embattled Pete Hegseth as secretary of the Department of Defense, in a major win for President Donald Trump and his new administration. Vice President JD Vance cast the 51-50 tie-breaking vote after former GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine joined Democrats to …

The Washington Post reports: Trump has encouraged billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy to consider filling Ohio’s vacant Senate seat. Ramaswamy publicly withdrew his name from consideration for the post in November, after Trump chose him to lead the DOGE panel along with billionaire executive Elon Musk. But the Ohio native has reemerged in recent days as one of the leading contenders for …

Bloomberg News reports: Vice President-elect JD Vance tempered his boss’s promise to pardon all the protesters involved in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, saying those who behaved violently should “obviously” not receive pardons. Five people died as a result of the violence and the hundreds injured included 174 police officers. “If you protested peacefully on January 6, …

The Hill reports: Vice President-elect JD Vance took to the social platform X on Thursday to share an op-ed by Elon Musk in which the tech mogul expressed support for the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany, or AfD. Quoting Musk’s English version of the opinion piece, Vance said it was an “interesting piece.” The paper’s commentary editor resigned …

“Look, I’ll say one thing. The Democrats just voted to shut down the government, even though we had a clean CR, because they didn’t want to give the president negotiating leverage during his first term — during the first year of his new term. And number two, because they would rather shut down the government and fight for global censorship. …