JD Vance went on The View today, with a full complement of six harridans to harass him. Is that a good idea, bringing light into the darkness, or is it hopeless? If I were a politician I don’t think I would do it, but Vance girded his loins and waded in. The full video is below, but if ten minutes of The View is too much for you, here are some excerpts:
Co-host Behar said, “President Trump has called affordability a hoax. He said that, not me. He’s pouring money into this ballroom of his and the reflecting pool — don’t forget the Arch de Trumpe, I call it — and a White House cage match. All these things, why is he doing them when everybody knows that Americans are struggling? And what is he spending all this money for?”
This is ridiculous, of course. The ballroom, the pool and the UFC match didn’t cost enough to register on the scale of immense federal spending, much of which goes directly to thieves via Medicaid and other programs. And by what measure are Americans suddenly “struggling”? They didn’t say that on The View during the Biden administration. But the premise of the question was entirely false:
Vance said, “Well, I’ve got to defend the president on the hoax point. What the president said is the idea that Republicans caused the affordability problem is a hoax. And I think that’s true. If you go back to the Biden administration, inflation got up to 9% under the Biden administration, okay? Right now it’s at 3.5%. By the way, too high — we’re doing everything that we can to bring it back down to 2.5%, which is where most people would like to see it. But we inherited an affordability problem. We’re doing a lot to make it better. It’s going to take a little bit of time. There’s a lot more work to do. But the president knows that a lot of Americans are struggling. In fact, he ran on that. He talked about it. And we’ve done some things and made some good progress on that point.”
Co-host Ana Navarro said, “He just said he loves the inflation.”
Vance said, “What he said, Ana, is that he loves the fact that the inflation is going to come down when this war is over. That’s what he said.”
These people are completely shameless! It must be a great gig to be paid millions of dollars to lie on television. Vance also had to explain to the View hosts that Jeffrey Epstein hated Donald Trump, a fact of which they apparently were unaware, among other things.
Here is the complete video. Watch it if you are willing to risk some brain cells:
One wonders: if Democrats didn’t have the privilege of lying with impunity, what would become of them?
