DID Donald Trump get the right guy for Vice President this time around? His last one, Mike Pence, turned out a disaster at the very moment he needed him, when Trump attempted to launch a constitutional challenge to the 2020 election result and Pence did what the Democrats, media and his RINO Republican friends expected him to do – certify the election.
Pence, the “evangelical Christian” did a Judas on Trump and was rewarded for his obedience to the narrative with a mysterious little medal or coin handed to him by two colleagues, while offering a fairly obvious masonic handshake – not quite the 30 pieces of silver, but close in sentiment. Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat Speaker, gave him a friendly little nudge in the process – the same woman who very publicly tore up Trump’s State of the Nation speech in full view of the Congress.
It’s no secret that Vance opposed Trump early in his political career, but later came around when he discovered his platform and Trump’s had many similarities. Vance had publicly renounced the plan for the US to declare a no-fly zone over Ukraine, saying to conflict was no direct threat to the US. The anti-war sentiment attracted the attention of Eric Trump initially who opened the doors.
Tucker Carlson has also come out in support of Vance, from a negative perspective. “Every bad person I’ve ever met in a lifetime in Washington was aligned against JD Vance,” Carlson said at the Heritage Policy Fest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the Republican National Convention is also being held.
“He’s like one of the only members of the Senate with a happy marriage,” Carlson said. He also observed that the power-hungry elite despised Vance, not for personal reasons, but because they found him “harder to manipulate and slightly less enthusiastic about killing people.” Tucker may have a point.
We could also cynically and flippantly suggest he’s a possible “Vatican plant”, given that he was baptized and received into the Catholic Church by a Dominican priest and chose St Augustine as his patron saint. “Augustine gave me a way to understand Christian faith in a strongly intellectual way. I also went through an angry atheist phase. As someone who spent a lot of his life buying into the lie that you had to be stupid to be a Christian, Augustine really demonstrated in a moving way that that’s not true,” he told The American Conservative.
