A handful of cowardly Republican senators anonymously whined to Jewish Insider about Vice President J.D. Vance’s America First foreign policy viewpoints, coughing up a dying gasp of the war-obsessed GOP establishment.
The neocon senators glommed onto Vance’s skepticism of immediately taking military action against the Houthis in Yemen disrupting trade in the Suez Canal, despite saying he was “willing” to support it and then ultimately did. Vance expressed concern that the action would be difficult to justify to the American public, which elected him and President Donald Trump in part to stop endless wars and at least justify military action in terms of American interests.
“JD Vance is one of the most active and popular Vice Presidents in living memory,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told The Federalist. “The fact that a few haters in Congress have to anonymously whine to the media is further proof that the American people agree with his vision for our country over that of his detractors.”
The Republican senators cited by Jewish Insider attempted to paint Vance’s “mindset” as “perplexing,” and the article referred to Vance as an “isolationist” multiple times.
“This morning, @JoshKraushaar ran a hit piece against me in Jewish Insider, which has become an anti-JD rag. It has many problems, including seven anonymous quotes from cowardly Republicans,” Vance wrote on X Thursday, further pointing to an inaccuracy in the article that has since been corrected. “Now, you might say this is evidence of Kraushaar being the biggest hack in Washington, and you *may* be correct. Another very plausible explanation is that he’s the dumbest journalist in Washington. Either way, shocking an error like this could get through his vaunted editorial process!” […]
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