“Aside from that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?” is a question so stupid that it is a one-line joke. Martha Raddatz rolled on at greater length with Senator Vance this morning on This Week (full video here, transcript here, clip below), but her question/statement ranked up with the Mrs. Lincoln joke for stupidity:
RADDATZ: I want to — we played some other comments about migrants and migrants including in Aurora, in Colorado, where Trump said the city had been invaded and conquered by Venezuelan gangs. The Republican mayor of the city said flatly, the city and state have not been taken over or invaded or occupied by migrant gangs.
So, do you support Donald Trump making those claims that the Republican mayor says were grossly exaggerated and have hurt the city’s identity and sense of safety?
I understand what you’re saying that some people left behind. But he’s making these statements that the mayor is flat out disputing.
VANCE: Well, Martha, you just said the mayor said they were exaggerated.
RADDATZ: Grossly exaggerated.
VANCE: That means there’s got to be some — that means there’s got to be some element of truth here.
And, of course, President Trump was actually in Aurora, Colorado, talking to people on the ground and what we’re hearing, of course, Martha, is that people are terrified by what has happened with some of these Venezuelan gangs.
(CROSSTALK)
RADDATZ: Senator Vance, I’m going to stop you because I know exactly what happened. I’m going to stop you. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complex — apartment complexes and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns. A handful of problems.
VANCE: Only — Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem, and not Kamala Harris’s open border?
Americans are so fed up with what’s going on and they have every right to be and I really find this exchange, Martha, sort of interesting because you seem to be more focused with nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America are being taken over by violent gangs.
I worry so much more about that problem than anything else here. We’ve got to get American communities in a safe space again.
And unfortunately, when you let people in by the millions, most of whom are unvetted, most of whom you don’t know who they really are, you’re going to have problems like this. Kamala Harris’ 94 executive orders that undid Donald Trump’s successful border policies, we knew this stuff would happen.
Aside from that, how did you enjoy the show, Ms. Raddatz?
Raddatz: "The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes… A handful!"@JDVance: "Do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes were taken over by Venezuelan gangs and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris' open border?"
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 13, 2024
UPDATE: When things don’t go as planned, in the world of left-wing media, that is OK: just report it as if they had:
The honest headline is that Vance absolutely OBLITERATED an unprepared, smarmy, repulsively uneducated and partisan Raddatz in a debate during her Democrat program. https://t.co/MGd5Sn32Mu
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 13, 2024
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