Oh, this was ugly. Dare we think it was over before it began?
Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance appeared on Sunday’s Meet the Press this week to make a fool out of moderator Kristen Welker. A rephrase: To lead Welker into making a fool out of herself.
At issue in the segment were Trump’s promised blanket tariffs.
Welker asked Vance:
How do you respond to that charge that Trump’s tariffs would hurt the middle class?
J.D. was ready with an answer—and more than eager to respond and education the useful idiot:
If you sit back a little bit, Kristen, there’s this whole thing that Kamala Harris did at the convention where she made a bunch of claims about what would happen, and not enough … reflection on what already happened, because Donald Trump already was president; he used tariffs to bring manufacturing jobs back to…
