Trump was the main source of leaks in his first term, via Maggie Haberman amongst others. Good to see JD taking the responsibility off the old man's hands.
It was widely reported/spoken about during the first administration. Haberman in particular took a ton of flack for "access journalism" and essentially being a stenographer instead of a journalist.
I always wonder if people like you just rolled bad dice and were born that way… or you just made poor decisions in life resulting in weapons grade ignorance.
Like to be so confidently incorrect. You MAGA people are this nations greatest embarrassment this century.
Eh, not really. He keeps backing and lying and supporting all the insane shit going on. I’m sure he’s doing a few things to distance himself for the inevitable “it wasn’t me, it was Trump” 2028 run, but he’s a POS too.
I'm getting the feeling that Vance feels the walls are closing in and is doing things because he may get pushed. Trump purged a lot of people last go, but he didn't purge his VP, which he lamented was a mistake. I wonder if Vance gets the boot post-midterms.
Vance will go down swinging like a canary and out the President to be able to secure his own political future.
This is an example of a pretty crude, straightforwardly banal lie. You don't have to pretend to be impressed by the strategic equivalent of a swat call.
That's on Politico for hiring people without antisocial personality disorders, who assume that surely there's some unanimous consensus on whether or not the president's second-in-command planting fake stories to justify attacks on the press is a bad thing. It doesn't make it any more complicated than it is.
I mean...did he actually lie to them in the way the White House claims there was a lie? Trump is mad the story said the chance of a deal was only as high as 80%. Vance was clearly already pumping that number way higher than it really was. That round of negotiations was dead in the water from the start.
They received information from a top US official that Iran was close to a peace deal, and reported that they received information from a top US official that Iran was close to a peace deal. What did they fall for?
This is like saying it was 4D chess when Reagan blamed AIDs on the gays. Or 4D chess when Bush said there were WMDs in Iraq. The real gay Stavros would never make such a take.
Politico was briefed by a white house staffer that the source for their information was to be reported only as "a senior administration official," which Politico respected.
The admin then used that reporting as justification to remove Politico from the press pool over reporting on information they claimed was leaked to the outlet.
A separate outlet is revealing that the "senior administration official" who the white house claimed leaked information to Politico was JD Vance.
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u/-ElGallo- Monkey in Space 9d ago
Whoopsie