Trump just made JD Vance’s path to the White House harder

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However, when Trump told Vice-President JD Vance on Truth Social to “focus his complete and total attention” on investigating alleged fraud in Democratic cities rather than waste…

President Donald Trump’s frequent social media sign-off, “Thank you for your attention to this matter”, has become as much a part of his trademark style as his make-up and hairdo. It’s more comic than sinister.

However, when Trump told Vice-President JD Vance on Truth Social to “focus his complete and total attention” on investigating alleged fraud in Democratic cities rather than waste his time on a deal with Iran, concluding it with TYFYATTM was a way of telling him to shut up about Iran or face his wrath.

This order to stay in his lane puts Vance in a lose-lose situation. The Memorandum of Understanding he negotiated with Iran in June is dead. He has been stripped of any further peace-brokering role. If Trump says, “Don’t mention the war,” Vance can’t even voice his opinion on it as part of his delicate bid for the 2028 nomination, but has to leave it to surrogates to make the case for him.

As for investigating corruption in Democrat-run cities, that’s about as desirable a task as the one former President Joe Biden gave his vice-president Kamala Harris on immigration. If you remember, the luckless Harris was supposed to address the “root causes” of immigration when the primary one was Biden’s own border policies.

Good luck, Vance, persuading voters to “look over there” at evidence of welfare fraud in Minneapolis, when Congress will start poring over alleged crimes and misdemeanours by the Trump family and their allies as soon as the new blue wave of lawmakers take their seats in January. He will need all the skills of a magician to pull that one off.

“Donald Trump and JD Vance are attempting to gaslight and distract the American people from noticing the rampant corruption happening right under their noses at the White House,” Kendall Whitmer said on behalf of the Democratic National Committee. “Trump, his kids, and his administration have made billions off their access to the White House.”

Now that Vance has been muzzled, I wonder whether we will ever see him again at…

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