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JD Vance isn’t stupid, but he thinks you are



Vice President JD Vance was a busy boy on Sunday, hitting the network shows
with his patented combination of petulance and bullying. Not content with
threatening the country with an expanded police state, Vance also made time to
attack former FBI Director James Comey and lie to everyone about “border czar”
Tom Homan.

Well, at least he’s got some work to do, right? Given that deputy chief of
staff Stephen Miller appears to actually be the president these days, old JD
has to claim some territory for his own, right?

Vance used his time with NBC’s Kristen Welker to make some inflammatory and
prejudicial statements about Comey and, for good measure, New York Attorney
General Letitia James: “If you look at the fact that James Comey obviously lied
under oath, Letitia James obviously committed mortgage fraud.”

Vance’s remarks openly undercut President Donald Trump’s pet Interim U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan. Halligan is
handling the prosecutions of both Comey and James because no one else is craven
enough to do so.




 



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While Vance was declaring Comey and James guilty in the court of public
opinion, Halligan was hilariously, incompetently busy demanding a protective
order in the Comey case because “through social media, the Defendant has
already made a public statement regarding the indictment.”

Ohhhhkay?

This isn’t the clearest thing ever written, likely because Halligan has no
experience with prosecutions, but it looks like she is saying nearly all
discovery in the case needs to be under a protective order and that Comey
cannot have access to the material except through his attorneys.

This is necessary, per the one-time Florida real estate lawyer, because “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.”

Sure, except that Vance is running his mouth on national TV about how Comey
and James are guilty. We are shocked, SHOCKED that the administration would
undercut a fair trial for Comey.

Recall that Vance only cosplays as a salt-of-the-earth nativist man of the
people and is actually a dude who got a degree from Yale Law and became a
venture capitalist, which is about as elite as you can get. He knows full well
that making statements as to someone’s guilt—in the middle of the government
prosecuting them!—is prejudicial, but he doesn’t care. He loves lying to your
face.




 



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And man, he gets mad if someone stops him from lying. Witness his little
tantrum on ABC News, the same Sunday. There, when asked about Homan keeping
that sweet $50,000 bribe he received, Vance first tried to say he just had no
clue what George Stephanopoulos was asking him about: “George, I don’t know
what you’re talking about. Did he accept $50,000 for what?”

Once he decided he knew what Stephanopoulos was talking 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.”

Notably absent from this tirade was an explanation of what “services” Homan
was being paid for when he got a paper bag full of cash. Also, what on earth
does “violating a crime” mean, anyway? Man, Yale Law has a lot to answer for.

Vance is an avatar for the worst strain of conservative politics these days.
He knows he’s lying. He knows you know he’s lying. But he also knows there’s
nothing you can do to stop him, so we’re going to have to keep enduring his
sneering little face gaslighting us.



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