The vice-president went ballistic against the media and the left – a version of Trump with even more menace
It was James David Vance’s pitch to his boss: don’t forget me!
The vice-president was nowhere to be seen last weekend when US special forces swept into Venezuela and snatched its leader, Nicolás Maduro. Instead Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and a potential rival to Vance in the 2028 presidential election, grabbed all the Maga glory.
On Thursday, JD Vance decided to strike back. Marco might have Delta Force, a giant armada and 150 bombers, fighter jets and reconnaissance planes but the VP had a verbal machinegun and he was aiming it directly at the media.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, the bearded Vance made himself the face of the administration’s response to Wednesday’s fatal shooting of Renee Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother, by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) officer in Minneapolis.
