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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
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JD Vance joins VINCE to discuss his new life as Vice President, working for Donald Trump, Kamala Harris' insane Vice-Presidency, and his favorite Vance memes.
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Vince
Coming up, mere moments from now, an exclusive interview with the Vice President of the United States, J.D. vance. We've got a huge show for you today. We're gonna talk to the vice president. We're gonna get your reaction to that interview right away right here on Rumble. And then going forward, we're gonna talk about the bloodthirsty attacks by the left all across the country. How did the left become so bloodthirsty? And how is President Trump and his administration responding to this? From every agency to the nation's police officers, to our very own Dan Bongino, now deputy director of the FBI, Their responses to all of this chaos. Ahead on this program, a special edition of Vince. But first, you know about data brokers, those greedy tech companies that are spying on your online activity. They then compile it and they sell that info to other companies and even foreign governments. And this is why we use an app called ExpressVPN because ExpressVPN is a company committed to protecting you from the big brother Data brokers. With ExpressVPN, 100% of your online activity travels through secure encrypted tunnels and ExpressVPN also hides your IP address. Without this number, a data broker has no valuable information about you to sell to the next shady company. ExpressVPN also just rolled out a brand new feature for US customers called Identity Defender that will get your data removed from from data brokers files, monitor the dark web for your leaked information and then alert you when somebody tries to use your Social Security number. This isn't about being a shady person or looking up shady things on the Internet. This is about your right to privacy. Protect yourself with ExpressVPN because it's your right. Right now you can get an extra four months for free when you use my special link. Go to express.com excuse me, expressvpn.com Vince that's expressvpn.com and get four extra months of ExpressVPN. That's E X P-R-E-S-S V P N.com Vince well, it is an exciting show today because we've got the Vice President of the United States joining us. He's going to be here in just a moment. We've got a lot to get to. My thanks to you all across the country offering all sorts of excellent questions for the Vice President of the United States. I'll get a chance to ask some of those today. And really looking forward to this. This has been such a fantastic launch week, I would say for Vince. We're Starting it off, of course, with Tucker Carlson. And then we've got the vice President of the United States today in studio. Tomorrow, I'll be joined by Donald Trump Jr. So we've got a lot to get to, but the boys are telling me that I do have the vice President of the United States standing by. That's right. All right. Now joining us live here on Vince, the vice President of the United States of America, J.D. vance. Sir, good to have you with us.
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J.D. Vance
How are you?
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Vince
There he is. All right, the vice president. Hello, sir. I'm doing great. How are you doing?
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J.D. Vance
I'm good. Can you hear me okay?
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Vince
I hear you so well. Thank you very much for that. Hey, just first of all, congratulations on all of this. I think a lot of people are excited about the way this presidency is going and your role in all of this. Can you talk to me about that? What is your relationship like with President Trump and, and what has he entrusted you with as the vice president of the United States?
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J.D. Vance
Well, yeah, it's one of the funny things about our system, right, is the vice president doesn't have any formal power. So I see my role fundamentally as trying to help the president do whatever he needs to do. And so that's made me more of a generalist. There's not a particular issue where I've sort of made just my issue. I think the president and I work on everything, and obviously I take direction from his leadership, but I try to implement the agenda as well as I can. And that's what I've been doing. And it's been a lot of fun because, like, traditionally, vice presidents will be a little siloed. You know, they'll pick sort of one or two things and just focus on that. I feel like the president has empowered me to be involved in everything, and that's made the job a lot more fun than I think maybe it would otherwise be.
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Vince
It seems like in a way that you're kind of like a hand in a glove with the guy because you know his timings and he definitely creates space for you. We saw that in your exchange with Volodymyr Zelenskyy when he showed up at the Oval Office. And it definitely seemed like President Trump just placed a lot of trust in you for a very high stakes international diplomatic situation. What was that like, that moment?
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J.D. Vance
Yeah, that was pretty crazy. And the background on that is that I think it was a Polish journalist who had asked a couple of unfair questions and asked a third unfair question. I answered it, and then obviously Zelenskyy didn't like my answer. And he jumped in.
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Vince
And.
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J.D. Vance
And really, the President could have said, well, hey, I'd like to take that. Or he could have shot me down or disagreed with me. But he actually empowered me, I think, to participate in that conversation. And you're right, it's a little bit his leadership style, where when he has trust in somebody, he sort of just lets them do what he thinks they need to do. He doesn't try to micromanage you, so long as he actually trusts you to do the right thing. And that's certainly been. You know, you saw it publicly with that particular exchange. But I've seen it privately a lot, too. And, you know, I just try to do the best job I can. I try to remind myself that it's a blessing to be here, and if the President gives me something to do, I'm going to try to accomplish it as best as I can.
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Vince
It's amazing. He does have a lot of trust in you. Was there any moment during that conversation where you thought to yourself, before you started speaking, you're like, oh, my gosh, this guy Zelensky has no idea what he's doing right now. Like, he's like. What he's about to walk into?
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J.D. Vance
Well, so let me just say this so I don't cause a diplomatic issue here, Vince.
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Vince
Okay?
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J.D. Vance
We've had some good conversations with Zelensky since then, and I think that we're all sort of aligned on trying to bring this conflict to a close. But in the moment, I think there was some frustration, and I frankly think some of it was probably a language barrier issue where he seemed to be disagreeing with some of the President's substantive answers, you know, shaking his head or. Or making some statements that I think he just didn't quite understand what the President was trying to do. And I understand, you know, frankly, Biden did whatever Zelensky told him to do. In some ways, over the last four years, Zelensky was more President of the United States than Joe Biden was. And so he comes in and he has this president who's a strong personality, a strong leader. And so I get that it took a little bit of time for him to sort of understand where we were coming from. But. But fundamentally, look, the President has said the war has to stop. It's stupid. The killing is off the charts. It's destroying these two countries. It's not good for them. It's not good for America. And I think finally, we're at a stage where Zelensky seems to want to follow that direction. And that's a good thing, because I think the president has an opportunity that, frankly, we haven't had for the past four years to actually bring this conflict to a close.
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Vince
Yeah, that'd be good. We stop the killing. That'd be really important. You talked earlier about the role of the vice president and how it's different with each presidency. How are you doing the job differently than Kamala did it?
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J.D. Vance
Well, I don't have four shots of vodka before every meeting. That's one way I think, that Kamala really tried to bring herself into the role is these word salads. And I think that I would need the help of a lot of alcohol to answer a question the way that Kamala Harris answered questions. I mean, look, man, I don't know. My sense is. And this is a little bit of guesswork, obviously, I don't talk to Kamala Harris or Joe Biden very often, but my sense is that there wasn't a level of trust between Biden and Harris. And so, you know, she was just less empowered to do her job. And, you know, luckily, I'm in a situation where the president trusts me, where if he asks me to do something, he believes it's going to happen. And obviously, you know, we'll talk about it and check in. But I feel empowered in a way that I think a lot of vice presidents haven't been. But that's all in the service of accomplishing the president's vision. And I think I try to remind myself of that, you know, every single day that the American people elected Donald J. Trump to do a job. For him, to do that job successfully, the people around him, starting at the top with the vice president, have to do their jobs well.
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Vince
Is it true that she refused to welcome you to the vice president's official residence at the Naval Observatory before you took office? Did she block you from that?
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J.D. Vance
Yeah, there was some weird thing where, you know, my wife, because so we have three young kids, seven, five, and three. And so we wanted the kids to see this place before they moved into it. And for whatever reason, man, I don't know if it was a staff issue. I don't know if it was Kamala Harris herself, but they just would not, even with me not there, they would not allow the three kids just to come by and see this place that they're gonna live in. And I imagine a lot of your listeners have kids. You know, kids get nervous about big moves, and we just wanted them to actually see this place. That didn't happen, but it's all water under the bridge. The kids are living in the Vice President's residence now. They love it. There's a lot of space, especially for Washington, D.C. and we're having a good time.
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Vince
Yeah, it's a great place. Speaking of the Vice presidency, you know, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz ran against you for the post. He said this week, I'm aware. He said this week that he can beat most Trump supporters up. And I wonder, as you hear that, were you ever physically intimidated by Tim Walz on that debate stage?
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J.D. Vance
I have to say, Vince, I was never physically intimidated by Tim Walz. I saw those comments and I just, you know, there's a little bit of a thing where the Democrats have become so unpopular among young men in particular, but really all men that I think they have to posture and pretend. And who goes on TV and says, I could beat up a large group of people? I just think that it's a guy who doesn't actually know how to relate, who's trying to say something that sounds relatable and it just comes across and unfortunately the way that Tim Waltz sometimes comes across. So I'm not too worried about him. You hear people say that he wants to take a bigger leadership role, might run for the Senate in Minnesota. I'm not too worried about Tim Waltz as a political talent. We're just going to focus on doing our job. And when Tim Waltz says something crazy, we'll laugh at it and move on.
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Vince
I like laughing at Tim Waltz. All right, let's talk about actual physical violence going on right now in the country. There are terror attacks all over on these Tesla vehicles, Tesla dealerships, lots of left wing terrorism taking place. And of course, we also have these swatting incidents against a large number of conservative commentators. And I've noticed that the Trump administration is taking all of these issues really seriously. Do you think we'll ever get to the bottom? Who is organizing all of this and funding these attacks?
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J.D. Vance
So I don't know, but I do know that we're actually deploying some real law enforcement resources to understand where this stuff is coming from, you know, whether it's one off attacks or whether there's something more coordinated. I mean, it really is an act of terrorism, right. If you own a Tesla, whoever you voted for, you know, I think there are a lot of people who are worried right now. Obviously, you know, Elon has taken a big role in the administration. I think he's doing a great job. And so you have these people trying to tear him down and by consequence tear down the entire administration, they're basically, basically trying to send a message that if you do a good job for President Trump, they're going to come after you, they're going to come after your business, they're going to come after your home. So we are investigating this stuff. A lot of times, you know, this stuff will happen and there aren't real law enforcement resources dedicated to solving it. That has changed with Pam Bondi and Cash Patel. So you never know where an investigation is going to lead. But I really think that we have to do everything we can. We are doing everything that we can to get to the bottom of it. And if we identify people who've committed crimes, man, we're going to prosecute them. The other thing I always wonder with this stuff is this is not cheap, right? Terrorism is not cheap. We saw that in the Middle East 20, 25 years ago. You had some very wealthy financiers of Al Qaeda. My guess is that if we do get to the bottom of this, we're going to find out that there are some very crazy, very deranged, but very wealthy left wing people who are funding this stuff. And I think that is the most important thing that we have to focus on. It's not the foot soldiers, it's the guy at the top writing the checks.
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Vince
Yeah, I saw Elon Musk had said a couple weeks ago that he believes that the protests against Tesla, at least, the protests are at least funded by, he thinks, ActBlue, which is one of the big economic engines on the left. He pointed to George Soros and Reid Hoffman. I should also point out that those two names I just mentioned worked really actively to stop you from becoming Vice President of the United States and of course, right at the top, stop President Trump from ever becoming President of the United States again. So it would be consistent if they're still funding efforts to stop the Trump agenda.
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J.D. Vance
Yeah, it would be. And I don't know that it's them. I wouldn't be shocked if it was. But we know that there are a lot of crazy people who have a lot of money who I think are willing to let the country burn quite literally, so long as it helps them accomplish their political goals. So it's really sick, twisted stuff, man. But we're not going to stand for it. I think that's what's different about President Trump's administration is for really the first time in my life, I think you have a conservative president who's actually pushing back against this stuff in a very real and substantive way. He's actually empowered his FBI and law enforcement agencies to go after some of these psychos. That's what we have to do. It's what we're gonna keep on doing, and we'll see where it leads. But I'm optimistic that if we actually force these bad guys to suffer some consequences, they'll stop doing crazy stuff.
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Vince
Yeah, it does seem like outside of the actual organized efforts, it does seem like a lot of Americans, not a lot, but some percentage have succumbed to this idea that mob violence is the way to address your political opposition. I just saw this week that, like for instance, on Jimmy Kimmel's television program and on the Daily show this week, you have audiences outright cheering, seeing the images of Teslas on fire across the country. And I saw that and I thought, man, that really is a sign of how much the left has conditioned people to think that that's acceptable.
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J.D. Vance
Yeah. Though I will say, in defense of the American people, Jimmy Kimmel's show is so unfunny and boring and left wing that it's probably not a representative sample. If you go to a Jimmy Kimmel live viewing, you have to really be a humorless scold. And so my hope is that that's isolated to a very small number of people. But you are right that we've seen this embrace of mob violence from some corners of the far left. I think the only way to deal with it is to force people who endors that stuff, who actually commit violence to actually go to prison and to suffer some consequences. And man, left, right, we can argue all day about tax policy or regulatory policy or what our foreign policy should be. I just at a fundamental, visceral gut level, I'm disgusted by violence on behalf of your politics. Like, this is not what America was supposed to be. We can argue at each other, we can yell at each other, we can vote against people we don't like. But you don't get to commit violence over politics in this country. It's third world disgusting crap. And I don't think that we can tolerate it.
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Vince
There are other people trying to slow down the Trump agenda. There are these judges. Judge Boasberg comes to mind. Lots of judges who are trying to basically say that the President can't exercise the powers of the presidency. You're an attorney. How do you assess the legal battles here?
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J.D. Vance
Yeah, I bet all those judges are huge fans of Jimmy Kimmel, by the way. But I think, Vince, that one. We have an appeals process. The President's been very clear. He's going to respect that process. He's going to take his case all the way to the Supreme Court, or I guess his cases all the way to the Supreme Court. And I will say that I think the Chief justice and other judges or justices on the Supreme Court, this is a real opportunity to actually set proper boundaries for both the courts, but also the executive. You can't have a judge who's controlling troop deployments. You can't have a judge who's controlling how we enforce our immigration laws. You know, the American people actually invested the President of the United States with some of these core law enforcement authorities. And the President has to be able to do the job the American people elected him to do. I think what you're seeing really is judicial overreach on a scale we've never seen in the history of this country. And I think the Supreme Court has got to put a stop to it. We're actually going to, you know, we're of course going to make those arguments to the Justice Supreme Court. I think that we're going to win. But we can't let rogue judges tell the President how to conduct the people's business. And there's another element of this that I don't think anybody has really picked up on, but it's really important. Like if you think of the courts, right, to get access to the courts, let's be honest, that's mostly for, you know, people filing lawsuits. You got to have money to do that stuff. You've got to have money to hire fancy lawyers in civil suits the way that most normal people, they're not filing lawsuits. When they want to accomplish something in their government, they vote. They vote for their legislators and they vote for their president. So if we allow basically a bunch of rich lawyers to run the government, but we don't allow normal people who voted for a president to see their government run the way they see fit, that I think what we're really doing is we're not just turning over the power of the government to rogue judges, were actually depriving the American people of their God given right to control their government. And it's really a fundamental violation of how the American system was set up. Yes, we can't stand for it, we won't stand for it. We're gonna keep fighting back against it.
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Vince
That's such a smart point. Okay, finally, you gave a speech this week to the American Dynamism Summit. You said that President Trump's job is to reverse 40 years of failed economic policy in this country. So I wanna ask you this, can he do that in just four years and if he can't, are you personally ready to give us another eight years in the White House to see that plan through?
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J.D. Vance
Well, I think he can do a lot in the next four years. And fundamentally, we just have to do a good job for the American people over the next four years. He did a lot of good in 2016-2020. And if you look, one of the charts that I care the most about is, you know, what are median wages? In other words, what is the worker in the middle of our society? How well are they doing? And you saw those folks get the biggest pay raise of the last generation during the first Trump administration. That's fundamentally our goal. And I think that if we, if we bring manufacturing back, if we unleash American technology, if we reject this globalist idea that the way to produce economic growth is to import cheap labor, I really think that we can do a lot in four years. Are you going to fix every problem in four years? Of course not. We certainly need to make sure this movement continues over the next four years. But I think we do a good job over the next four years. The American people will give us an opportunity to keep on doing good things. And whoever that is, I'm not worried about it. I just want to do a good job as vice president.
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Vince
Okay, good. And do you have any favorite JD Vance memes, anything you like on the Internet these days?
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J.D. Vance
Definitely the Leo DiCaprio one from. From Once Upon a Time in Hollywood where he's pointing at the TV scre. That's a really good one. I'm a personal fan of Vance Halen, but that's because I really like the band Van Halen. So that's just my personal preferences. But, man, I don't know how that happened or where it came from, but it's been very, very funny to watch your own face become this meme. It's made the job a lot more fun, so I encourage people to keep doing it.
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Vince
It's hilarious. Thank you very much. The Vice President of the United States, J.D. vance. Good to talk to you, sir.
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J.D. Vance
See you, Vince. Take care, man.
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Vince
Keep up the great work. There he is. That's the Vice President of the United States joining us here on this humble program. Really amazing. I want to get your reactions here to the interview with the Vice President of the United States. In a moment, we'll talk to Evita as well. She'll sit down with us and give us that reaction as well. I want to tell people about who's taking care of this program for us. Do you mind who's making all of this happen. You know, there's just been so much going on in the world and you've seen it before. When disaster strikes, grocery store shelves can actually go empty overnight. Overnight, the worst time to prepare is during the aftermath. By then it might already be too late. You know, smart Americans trust my Patriot Supply to help them prepare before crisis comes. And right now they're making it easier than ever. You can order their four week emergency food supply today and get a 72 hour food kit completely free. Actually, you'll get four 72 hour food kits completely free. That's almost two weeks of bonus meals at no cost. Each of these my Patriot supply Kits offers over 2000 calories per day of delicious, easy to prepare meals that last up to 25 years. That's real peace of mind. No last minute panic, no empty shelves. Just knowing you're covered. Stock up today before this deal disappears. Because when an emergency hits, well, food could be the first thing to go. Go to preparewithvince.com to claim your kit plus an extra 12 days of food for free. Almost two weeks of bonus meals at no cost. Once again, that's preparewithvince.com to claim your kit plus an extra 12 days of food free. Preparewithvince.com the Vice President of the United States stopping by here on Vince. The reaction pouring in now, people pointing out that the chat is blowing up, which makes it even harder to sort through all of the reactions. Outstanding interview says RJMB651. Thank you for that. F. Samuelson saying I'm proud to have Vice President Vance helping us to restore sanity. Two tubesy three says thank you, Vince for bringing on JD Good interview. Love the interview. Yeah, great reactions here. JD Showed up and reminded me a lot of a certain president of the United States with his candor. Joining us now to assess all of it. Evita. Evita, nice to be here. Nice to see you here and great show this morning. What do you think of the vice president?
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Evita
I'll say he's not a DEI hire. No, that was very obvious from that interview. He was so eloquent and it was so funny when he brought up Kamala Harris being drunk all the time. That's obvious. We don't know if that's true or not, but it's a joke on the Internet because she sounded so inarticulate the entire campaign cycle and the entire vice presidency. And there's such a stark contrast with JD Vance. You can tell he really is a very smart man.
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Vince
Wouldn't you like to see the two of them discuss artificial intelligence.
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Evita
I would love that.
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Vince
Just get Kamala Harris on stage, J.D. vance on stage. The two of them talk about AI together. One of them will know what they're talking about. The other one is just gonna spin the circles.
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Evita
Well, if it's conducted by NBC or ABC or cnn. And then they'll edit it out, all the bad parts, and she'll come out looking wonderful.
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Vince
Yes.
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Evita
And then the Trump administration will have to sue them for it.
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Vince
When he said that, that I go to meetings without taking three shots at tequila, I knew at that moment that JD Was here to play today. He was like, I'm in, I'm in. I understand what the mission is here, but that's consistent for him. And I do think it's a big deal. He was nice to kind of talk about. He was being a little diplomatic, of course, and talking about the Zelenskyy meeting.
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Evita
Very professional.
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Vince
Yeah. Because they're trying to navigate towards a piece. I want to hear all of the nitty gritty details. I want to hear the gossip, what was going on behind the scenes. But there's a much bigger issue on the line. But the trust that Trump places in this guy, it's noticeable from the outside, don't you think?
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Evita
It is. And if you look at how Trump treated Mike Pence, I mean, obviously he didn't trust Mike Pence for good reason, but he seems to have a willingness to share the stage, to share the spotlight a little bit with JD Which I think demonstrates how much he trusts him. And I'll just tell you, Vince, as somebody who is a zoomer, who knows that Social Security insolvency is on the horizon, and I know that millennials are the first generation to be worse off than their parents in America, I have a lot of trust in JD Vance. He actually makes me very optimistic as a young person. When he was talking about the economy, when he was talking about foreign policy, he is young. He understands meme culture. He's super articulate. He's really competent. And it made me. I don't know, I felt a sense of just almost security.
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Vince
Yes.
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Evita
Versus Biden and Kamala, who are just like, who are these guys?
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Vince
Can we call up cut six? This is J.D. vance. I wanna show this clip because this gets right to what you're talking about. He gave a speech this week on the economy at the American Dynamism Summit. You heard me refer to it in our conversation. Take a look at what he said about the state of our country over the last 40 years. And what needs to change now?
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J.D. Vance
The fundamental goal of President Trump's economic policy is, I think, to undo 40 years of failed economic policy in this country. For far too long, we got addicted to cheap labor, both overseas and by importing it into our own country, and we got lazy. We over regulated our industries instead of supporting them. We overtaxed our innovators instead of making it easier for them to build their great companies, and we made it way too hard to build things and invest things in the United States of America. That stopped two months ago, and it will continue to stop and will continue to fight for American workers and the American businesses that hire them and that support them.
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Vince
All right, I know that you don't have the earpiece.
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Evita
I don't have the earpiece.
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Vince
I'll tell you what he said. He said we've got 40 years of failed economics policy behind us, and that includes importing tons of cheap labor at the expense of American citizens, overregulating industries so that we stop innovation here in the United States. And basically throughout that speech, he talked about how we're a nation of consumers now, kind of like we've inculcated a sort of laziness into the country that has taken away from the American spirit that we're not producing and instead we're consuming. And I was. First of all, I can't recommend the speech enough. It's really good. But to hear him say that and to give this, like, hopeful vision of we're gonna get the government out of the way, we're gonna stop all of the foreign nationals from pouring in and devaluing the labor market, and we're gonna prioritize uplifting the American spirit. Why aren't more people talking like this?
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Evita
Well, I'll tell you, Vince, that that was. I mean, I didn't get to see that, hear that clip. But that's something that's been a through line for JD since he's. Since he's been in politics. He's really an America first man. And there's this question of, what is America? Are we a people with an identity in a physical place, or are we just GDP growth?
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Vince
Right?
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Evita
And J.D. vance is taking this head on, and he's saying, no, we're a people, and what's good policy for America is not just what's gonna be good for the economy, but what's going to be good for the actual people living here. And that's why he's tackling this issue of massive imports of illegal and illegal immigrants, devaluing labor and Wanting to bring industry back. And this is something that we haven't seen from Republicans, really. I mean, this is a divorce from traditional Republican policy to now authentically America first policy. And to see JD Take the torch on this, carry the torch on this makes me really, again, Vince, so optimistic.
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Vince
Okay, so the other piece that I heard him reference, and I'm going to talk about this more as, as the show moves along, is all of the violence going on across the country right now, the swatting attacks on conservative commentators. Last night I saw that one of the national police organizations is now calling for people who believe that they may be targeted in a swatting incident to call their local police department and just give them a heads up. Hey, this is the kind of work I do. And if you ever get a call that's designed to attack my house with police, you should know why that's coming in, which is, it's just crazy that we even live in an environment like this. But the whole Trump administration seems to be mobilizing against this, whether it's the DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem. We saw Kash Patel already indicated, the deputy director now of the FBI, Dan Bongino and the whole team, they're all going after this thing. The vice president clearly taking it seriously. And did you notice he brought up money and organization multiple times?
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Evita
Yeah. And that was such an amazing thing to hear. I don't know if you know this, Vince, about me and Michael. We did on the ground reporting during the BLM rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Yeah, I mean, I saw it on the ground where it was left wing violence, torching a working class, regular American city. And what we noticed was that people from Portland were being imported in on buses. They were coming in. So obviously there's money and there's organization that he pinpointed that issue. I mean, it's so amazing because for so long we're like, oh, there's this problem with left wing violence. And we blame it maybe on university indoctrination, but it's much more organized than that. It's much more institutionalized than that.
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Vince
Yeah. And so if they get to the bottom of that, that's kind of the skeleton key to the whole problem. I think that's where we start at least.
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Evita
I have a question for you, Vince. Do you think he's the heir apparent?
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Vince
I do.
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Evita
Yeah.
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Vince
So I think right now what we're witnessing is President Trump is giving him strategic distance. So, yes, Trump is including him in everything because Trump believes in him. You want to know how he believes in him. Yesterday, it was announced that JD Vance is taking over all fundraising for the Republican Party.
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J.D. Vance
Wow.
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Vince
We didn't even talk about that. That the rn, he's now the head. He's the chief fundraiser for the rnc. No vice president of the United States has ever been the chief fundraiser for the party. What that means is his job is to shake hands and wrangle dollars out of every donor that he can possibly get in front of.
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Evita
It's a big job.
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Vince
It's a huge job.
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Evita
Yeah.
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Vince
And that means that he's gonna be developing relationships with the biggest donors on the right in the country. If you're developing those relationships right now, literally the first year of the Trump presidency, and you're doing it on behalf of the Republican Party going into the midterms, how do those relationships pay off going into a presidential. Yeah, think about it. He's the Vice President of the United States now. These donors are pumped to be in front of J.D. vance. J.D. vance is the next best thing to Donald Trump himself. They get to be with this guy, they get to work with him, and he develops all that sort of both social and financial capital to mount a massive run for the presidency. So right now, I think Trump asked. Bret Baier asked Trump about this a few weeks ago. He said, what about J.D. vance? Is he the heir apparent? The question you just asked me. And he goes, I don't know. We got a lot of great people. He gave kind of an answer, a little distant answer. There's a lot of people here. And I think that Trump probably says that for multiple reasons. One, to give JD A shield from the left's attacks, because right now they're focused. Firing who? Elon and Trump, but mostly Elon. So the second Trump comes out and goes, this is the guy to run for president. 28. They're gonna spend every waking moment trying to destroy him.
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Evita
Yeah.
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Vince
The other piece is, like, I do think that Trump wants the people around him to all stay hungry. He wants J.D. to stay hungry. He wants the other people in his cabinet who might want to run for president themselves, to stay hungry. So as long as he kind of holds out on giving that endorsement, I think he will inspire the sort of, like, aggression that all of these guys need to show to demonstrate that they deserve to ever have that job.
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Evita
I think that's a really smart analysis. And I'll say that there's a narrative right now from the political left that Trump is not endorsing him, that Trump doesn't want him to be the next president. Because he hasn't accepted, explicitly endorsed him. I think that's very silly to say. And if that were the case, you would see Donald Trump sidelighting J.D.
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Vince
Vance big time.
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Evita
And instead, he is at the forefront of this administration.
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Vince
Yeah. Yeah. And he's right. He's front and center. And so J.D. vance has become something of a Swiss army knife for President Trump. Anything he needs JD to do another. There's only so much time we had to talk to him. But one other piece of his tenure has been his mastery of the United States Senate. All of these confirmation hearings. And let me point specifically to Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing to become Secretary of Defense. That happens because JD Got involved. JD Is shaking hands and wearing out senators, picking up the phone, calling them. These are his colleagues. He knows them. And guess what? He's smarter than almost every single one of them. He can maneuver. And he did. And so he's been behind the scenes, getting all these Cabinet picks through, working with the Senate, being a very good advocate for the Trump agenda. And so really, what he's trying to do is not just earn Trump's favor, but more importantly, the people who voted for Trump in the first place. So I think he's on his way.
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Evita
I do, too. And I just wanted to add something that obviously wasn't in the interview, but my mom had the ability to meet Usha Vance recently. They went on a trip together to the Special Olympics overseas. She is a wonderful, wonderful woman. Like a wonderful mother. She's not, you know, she's a little bit laid back, and people don't ever always see her in the spotlight. But I just have to say the reviews that my mom had of ushavants were glowing. And I think that's gonna be somebody we're gonna see perhaps take center stage a little more, and people get to know her, and I think they're gonna like what they have to see.
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Vince
It's so cool. Yeah. What a beautiful family. And I love that they're all. They're locked in there at the. At the Naval Observatory, although they didn't get the tour from Kamala. How petty and disgraceful as that.
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Evita
And it's also so. I mean, you think about. You mentioned Tim Walsh and the jabs that they're taking at J.D. vance. It's so pitiful. And J.D. i think, had a great response where he was just like, you're gonna call me unmasculine. You're gonna say, it doesn't matter. Right. Like, everybody can observe that tampon Tim has, you know, no. Has no standing next to JD Vance, who's not a DEI hire, who's articulate, who's a real man with a family and doesn't have bizarre backstory like Tim Walsh. There is really no competition. The Democratic Party is falling by the wayside.
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Vince
Yeah. The masculine response is not to become a hysterical spaz.
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Evita
Yeah.
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Vince
Which is not JD Vance. Thank you, Evita.
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Evita
Of course.
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Vince
Great to see you. Keep up the great work. Evita. Setting records every day at 9:00 in the morning. It has been amazing. Your responses are pouring in as I try to keep track of this chat here on Rumble. I really do. And it moves at certain such tremendous speed that it's difficult sometimes. A lot of people giving great compliments on the interview and our analysis just now. Thank you for that. And duckgoose96 saying confident people don't need to respond to BS. You're right about that. Duckgoose96. You're very right about that. You gotta be confident to have a screen name like that. Duckgoose96. Let's see. Kamala didn't want to expose JD's family to all the alcohol she had in there. That's what TommyG262 says. So. Yeah, that's right. Kamala was doing him a favor keeping the kids away from all the booze. It's amazing. Amazing. All right. More in a moment as we dive into the left's blood thirst and again, how the Trump administration is responding to all of it. 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So people, people have been vandalizing Tesla vehicles, new Tesla vehicles. Please don't vandalize. Don't ever vandalize Tesla vehicles. And so that's the joke. That's the joke. Don't vandalize the Tesla vehicles. He says with a wink, don't do it. That's Jimmy Kimmel. And it happened again last night on the Daily Show. The Daily show, which is still on with a number of unnamed hosts rotating through with each passing day. And the Daily show over on Comedy Central was explaining, yeah, there's all sorts of domestic terror attacks happening on Tesla right now. And the audience went wild. They're taking to the streets or the parking lots. Tonight, the FBI and ATF now investigating.
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J.D. Vance
Multiple cases of possible arson targeting Teslas and cybertrucks.
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Vince
This dramatic video shows multiple cars in flames. Police say the attacker used Molotov cocktails. It's the latest in more than a dozen instances of arson and vandalism targeting Tesla.
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J.D. Vance
The same suspect shot more Teslas with a gun. Tesla cybertrucks were set on fire in Kansas City.
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Vince
And earlier this month, sharing the gunshots.
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J.D. Vance
Tesla dealership in Oregon. Cybertrucks on fire in Seattle, Incidents of arson.
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Vince
Someone lit a bunch of Teslas on fire. And here's the thing I get so, so there you go. So even at the end of that, the host guy says, oh, you guys are big fans of domestic terrorism. And then the audience cheers. This is the blood thirst of the American left. It's amazing. Like, how many lectures has the left given you about the right? And whoa, the disinformation that's out there, people are being misled. Why is it that they voted for Trump? The only way that you could possibly vote for Trump is that you're a sucker. You fell for it. You voted for Trump. Meanwhile, all of the left's media outlets have either explicitly or implicitly breathed life into this notion that the only way that they can exist in this country as lefties is to conduct physical violence against their political opponents. That's what we're seeing. We're seeing it in the form of swatting. We're seeing it in the form of these attacks on Tesla dealerships. Gunshots being fired through both cars and dealerships, Molotov cocktails being thrown. These are the tactics of the left, of the fascist left. It's true. And it's continuing. Now, the Kimmel clip that I just played for you from two nights ago now, where he gives that wink and a nod towards this idea that it's okay, yeah, go destroy Teslas. I'm saying don't. But this pregnant pause is very suggestive that you should. By the time he got on the air last night, the lawyers at ABC Disney clearly tried to get to him. And so this is his attempt at a walk back. But pay attention, because by the conclusion of the walk back, he's once again saying it's kind of justified to attack Tesla. Even benign incidents of arson. Someone lit a bunch of Teslas on fire. And here's the thing. I get that people are upset. Burning a car might not be great for the environment. I don't think that's what they had in mind when they invented the electric car. In Las Vegas yesterday, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at a Tesla service center. At least five Teslas blew up. One from the Molotov and four because that's just what Tesla's do sometimes. And no one should be setting fires. You could kill somebody. You could hurt somebody. Elon Musk might not care about other people, but decent Americans should. The world's richest man again has been trying to drum up sympathy for himself lately. His sales are down, his stock is down. Last night he was somber as he went through this with Sean Hannity.
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J.D. Vance
Tesla is a peaceful company. We've never done anything harmful.
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Vince
He's right. Never done anything awful. I've only done productive things. He's right. So I think we just have. They're laughing at it. It arranged. There's some kind of mental illness thing going on here. Because this doesn't make any sense. Well, let me see if I can explain it for you. When you pull out a chainsaw to celebrate firing thousands of people, they get mad. It's just, you know, my God. I mean, so making the government more efficient, it's justification for destroying property and menacing American citizens and causing chaos in American cities. If you get control of the government, which is of course, on behalf of the American people, you deserve to be attacked. That's the position Jimmy Kimmel's taking. So even in that awful attempt at a walk back, he steps on a rake before he gets there. It's amazing. It's amazing. Lots of lefties continue to call for these attacks on Tesla and they keep dressing it up in the language of. I mean non violent. No, what you're trying to do is whip up the mob. Jasmine Crockett was on a call yesterday. They did these stupid left wing video calls where they rotate in all of their best celebrities, including Jasmine Crockett, to declare that we need to, quote, take down Tesla, an American company which employs lots of Americans, which up until five minutes ago was cherished by the American left because it included electric vehicles. Here's Jasmine Crockett being typically insane, starting with on March 29th. It's my birthday and all I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down. Yes, listen. I have learned as I serve on the Doge Oversight Committee, that there is only one language that the people that are in charge understand right now. And that language is money. Is money. So if we destroy his business, he won't have money and then he will go away. That's the thought process. How demented do you have to be to say that the gift you want for your birthday is misery? For my birthday, I would like other people to be completely miserable. That's the birthday gift that I desire. Jasmine Crockett was not alone. There is a long ago washed up actor by the name of John Cusack who was also on that call. And he immediately just went on a completely unhinged rant about Elon Musk.
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J.D. Vance
Musk is kind of this arch villain of late stage capitalism. And he seems like this clown and this buffoon, but like Alex said, you know, this is a man who made a Sig Heil Nazi salute, not only in public, but disinformation. Presidential victory party. It's good to remember that these are unprecedented times.
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Vince
What is that going on in the.
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J.D. Vance
United States right now?
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Vince
And that, like Trump, I wore stuff like that when I was a kid. I would take like a T shirt sleeve and put it over my head.
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J.D. Vance
He's a sociopath and a ghoul. And I mean those terms very precisely. Because who else would use his own child as a sympathy prop while literally taking starving aid away from people all over the world?
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Vince
Literally.
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J.D. Vance
He's literally killing people.
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Vince
Literally.
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J.D. Vance
People are gonna die because of this madness.
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Vince
Literally. What did Dan Bongino think of the word literally? Not a fan. I'm seeing multiple thumbs up in The. In the control room. Okay, so here's the thing. These people are crazy. And it's obvious they're documenting their mental illness live on those streams. And they are trying to once again breathe life into the attacks on Tesla and on Americans and these poor dealership owners and the people who try and buy these vehicles, the people who take their families around in them, they're all under attack right now. Now, the upside, one of the upsides here that we can detect is that we have a response coming from the Trump administration. They're getting serious about this. Listen to Caroline Levitt yesterday. This is cut 5. Caroline Levitt talking about these acts of domestic terrorism. The White House taking this seriously. Does the White House have any indication that this is some sort of coordinated.
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J.D. Vance
Movement or that it's being funded by some outside group?
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Vince
And do you know if the investigation by the DoJ is being investigated as incidents of organized terror?
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J.D. Vance
I believe the Attorney General has made.
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Vince
Her comments clear on that.
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J.D. Vance
She is investigating these events as acts of domestic terrorism and we fully condemn them. And as I said earlier to Jackie's question, we think it's despicable what is happening to not just this American company, but also their innocent employees and again, innocent Americans who drive these vehicles. We condemn it wholeheartedly.
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Vince
We condemn it wholeheartedly. We're investigating this as acts of domestic terrorism. Pam Bondi of the Justice Department is on this. She's not. Now, let me tell you what's happening. I am seeing an all of government response now to the attacks on Tesla, the attacks on Elon, which by the way, you and I both know that include massive threats to his life. We're not seeing all the reports on that subject, but we know what's going on. This is the way, unfortunately, too many radical lefties operate. It's also the swatting incidents against conservative commentators. There's a. I'm seeing pictures of. Who's the guy? Owen Schroyer. Did you see that guy? There was cops pointing guns at him this week because he was caught up in another swatting incident. There's all these. There's a lot of people who have been subjected to this and it's horrific. And God forbid somebody be gunned down in one of these swatting incidents, killed, because that is the outcome that the left desires. That's what happens here. And the consequences for this need to be on another level. You've got to be locked away for years. At the very least, we've got other members of the government responding here. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem declaring last night, under President Trump's leadership, we will not sit idly by as conservative new media and their families are being targeted by false swatting. DHS Gov, that is their account, has the ability to trace phone numbers and track location information. We will use it to hunt these cowards down. This is an attack on our law enforcement and innocent families and we will prosecute it as such. Take a look at this, what you're seeing on your screen, video clips of this guy, Owen Schroyer being attacked. Nobody knows. The cops don't know that there's nothing going on at the house. They've been given a 911 call to tell them something horrific is happening there. Also, you saw the guy walking away with pizza boxes. I guess there's like part of this series of events is the swatting attack and then pizzas being delivered to the house for God knows what reason afterwards, over and over. But this is the left. This is the left and this is organized, it's coordinated. And getting to the bottom of this is important. Kristi Noem indicating we're tracking the communications. She's not alone on the communications front. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has indicated that he too is getting involved. The recent surge in swatting attacks against conservatives, he writes, is a dangerous form of political violence. I've been in touch with law enforcement to ensure they have access to the trace back resources that locate a call's originating point. Bad actors will face accountability. I like Brendan Carr. Brendan Carr's a good FCC chairman. He's a bulldog. He's the right guy to be in that job. Who else? Oh, that's right. FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino has also weighed in on this subject. Dan says that communication and transparency are my priorities. We work for you, the American citizen. Our teams are actively working on the Tesla incidents and the swatting incidents, along with our other responsibilities to keep the homeland safe. Thank you, Dan. He says no formalities with Mr. Bongino. It's not Deputy Director Bongino, it's just Dan. To you it's Dan to me it's Dan. Mr. Dan. I love Dan. Dan's so great. So we've got some responses here. Senator Mike Lee also says that swatting must end in prison time. Clearly. And we've gotta get. We've gotta. Yeah. QTS time is over. You're totally right. Who said that? Cutesy time. Totally right. RM99. We've got to get control of all of this very quickly, very quickly. Because if President Trump was elected for anything, it's to restore order to our country. To restore order. And the left, realizing that's the mission, has decided they will try to maximize disorder. The more disorder they create, the more they can prove that Trump failed in the mission to bring about a peace. Don't let them do it. So here's what we do going forward. One, we support law enforcement to get to the bottom of this. We encourage them with frequency to get to the bottom of this. Help them in any way you possibly can. Also, let's be honest, be armed. If you don't own a gun yet, learn how to use one, purchase one and protect your family. Be armed because you know when disaster strikes, the police are minutes away. You need to be able to protect yourself. And so we have a situation here where things are deeply out of control. President Trump was elected to restore order. And I really do think it's on its way. But it's going to take that whole of government approach and it's going to take an American public who once again puts our foot down and says, we're putting an end to this. We really very much need to. Last clip I want to show you. Do we have the clip of Tim Walls talking about World War II by any chance? Did you pull that from me? Tim Walls was on a stage this week and there was a guy who claimed that we're in World War II right now. This is the equivalent of World War II fighting back against Trump. And listen to tampon Tim Walls react to this deranged member of his audience.
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Evita
Nazis, end quote. The governor claims comments that he made.
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Vince
This week were aimed at actual Nazis and not at the Trump administration or Republicans.
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J.D. Vance
The greatest generation saved us in World War II from Hitler. This is our World War II to save the world from.
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Vince
I agree. I made a statement that the road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting. You're not overreacting. They got all angry when I talked about fascism. I said, quit exhibiting fascist tendencies. And we won't say that. Oh, really? Fascist tendencies? So wait, who's been imprisoning their political opponents? Oh, that's the left. Who's been censoring their political opponents. That's the left. Who's been ignoring the sovereignty of the United States of America. Well, that would be the left. Who's been importing criminals and drugs that kill Americans into the United States. Once again, that is the left. All of the fascist tendencies you hear this guy referring to on that stage, of course, are a form of projection. The left is fascist here in The United States of America because they know they can't succeed on their ideas. It's about not only shutting down and stifling their opposition, but trying to outright eliminate their opposition in some cases. And once again, you have another enthusiastic left wing crowd champing at the bit, braying about how excited they are to wage World War II against a duly elected President of the United States. Sounds kind of insurrectiony, doesn't it? That's what's happening. It's happening inside of lousy comedy shows that very few people watch but has audiences full of people who are screaming for more blood. It happens inside of whatever room Tim Walls was standing on in that auditorium where somebody makes a delusional analogy. And then Tim Walls says he agrees and that fighting back against the duly elected President of the United States is exactly like fighting back against Hitler. It's insane. Last point on this. Have you noticed that the left likes using World War II analogies all the time, but they have no idea how to use them. They don't even know what the sides were. They don't know what even happened in the war. They just know that I'm gonna rely on these analogies to make me sound like I know what I'm talking about for the rest of my life. It's amazing. And it was once again on display in that ludicrous, ludicrous room. Lots of thank yous coming in for Dan Bongino, the work that he's putting in right now. Already Deputy Director of the FBI. Pretty good, actually. We're only on Thursday of the very first week of his time in the bureau. Fantastic news tomorrow. A little programming note for you because you deserve one. Donald Trump Jr. Is in the house. You ready for this? Donald Trump Jr. Had a lot of questions for him. We got a chance to talk to the Vice President of the United States. We're going to talk to Donald Trump Jr. Tomorrow. I'm going to have him sign one of Guy's cards. Give me that card. Where's that card at? Give me both cards. I want to see these real fast. Come here. Guy's not going to be in studio tomorrow. So this is the one. Yeah, I'm showing him. I'm showing him here. Give me a zoom. Give me a tight zoom on this, would you? You see this one right here? Can I tell people the name of this game?
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J.D. Vance
Flesh and Blood.
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Vince
It's called Flesh and Blood. That's the name of this game. Guy likes it. That signature is the President of the United States. That's Donald Trump. And just to be clear, this is the second most valuable card that guy owns. Gui owns a really, really valuable card. He told me it's one of 16 on the planet. So it's not. This is not quite as valuable, but it's up there. That's the second. This one is not yet signed. And tomorrow, if he is willing, Donald Trump Jr. Will affix his signature to that beautiful holographic card. Look at that. Look at the colors on that thing. It's going to be so nice. That's tomorrow. Join us on the Vince show for the exclusive interview with Donald Trump junior.