Posted on 09/27/2024 12:18:33 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
Vice-presidential nominee JD Vance has a go-to explanation for his evolution from outspoken critic to impassioned defender of Donald Trump: He says he was converted by Trump’s achievements in the White House...
“I’m sympathetic to the idea that there’s a lot of long-term economic damage being done. But it’s always draped in this bizarre desire to pretend the virus itself isn’t a problem,” he wrote in May 2020....
“Trump has just so thoroughly failed to deliver on his economic populism (excepting a disjointed China policy),” Vance wrote in February 2020.
In the direct messages — sent during Trump’s final year in office to an acquaintance over the social media platform then known as Twitter — Vance harshly criticized his future running mate’s record of governance and said Trump had not fulfilled his economic agenda....
Vance spokesman William Martin said Vance’s 2020 assessment of Trump’s failure to deliver on his economic policies was not meant as a criticism of the former president, but of “establishment Republicans who thwarted much of Trump’s populist economic agenda to increase tariffs and boost domestic manufacturing in Congress.”...
In another of the 2020 messages, he expressed openness to a holy grail of the progressive left: a government-run universal health-care system, or Medicare-for-all. In a February 2020 message Vance wrote that “M4A,” as he called it, “is maybe a net positive, maybe not (details matter).”...
Vance said he doubted that Trump’s richest donors would abandon him in 2020 because he had continued to serve their interests as president, despite his populist rhetoric....
In February 2020, he wrote to his acquaintance that he believed they were both working with the same long-term approach to achieve their political goals.
“You’re playing a strategic game,” Vance wrote, “the same as me.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Yeah, this dude who signed up to FR in 2023 has shown NeverTrump tendencies more than a few times.
My understanding is that the Iranian’s funneled the hacked data to not only the major news sources, but to ‘influencers’ on ‘X’ and Facebook.
Now do Kommielaw calling Brandon a racist onstage during the 2020 race lol
Yes, Trump was opposed on all sides his first term.
The good news, is that he should have better people working for him this time around.
From the way he acts today, it seems that he is sorry and does not plan to do it again.
Maybe for you, but most of us aren't that dense.
You are kind of a n00b. We are in the midst of a do or die election. It might be nice not to undercut our candidates with rehashed crap from the Washingon Compost which is only out there to harm our ticket.
Trump and JD are good now and we are about a month out.
Don’t help the other side, m’kay? So chop yourself outta here if you don’t care for the ticket.
Donald Trump was President in 2020.
If you have money in Deloitte
GET IT OUT, YOU CANNOT TRUST THIS COMPANY WITH YOUR COMMUNICATIONS.
THEY LEAKED TO THE W POST.
Unless of course you are a democrat or communist.
Many were pissed over his spending and support of lockdowns. Me also! And not attacking mail in ballots. But Trump got my vote, and had the election stolen from all of us.
The deep state WP is getting more desperate.
Idiocy is RAMPANT at the Washington Compost!!
Trump has a knack for picking poor candidates.
IMO — I’d rather prefer Trump’s VP to not be a lickspittle “yes Man”, someone who will be there to discuss, even respectfully challenge, proposals that might need a little more “nuance” or to point out a different angle that needs to be considered.
YAWN
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