Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) slammed left-wing NBC News host Kristen Welker during an interview on Sunday over President Joe Biden’s political prosecutions against former President Donald Trump. Vance made the remarks during an interview on the network’s “Meet The Press” program when asked if Trump would go after the Biden family if he were to win in November. “Well, first of all, Kristen, I find it interesting how much the media and the Democrats have lost their mind over this particular quote,” he said. “Donald Trump is talking about appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Joe Biden for wrongdoing. Joe Biden has done exactly that for the last few years and has done far more in addition to that to engage in a campaign of lawfare against his political opposition. I think what Donald Trump is simply saying is we ought to investigate the prior administration.” “There are obviously many instances of wrongdoing,” he continued. “The House Oversight Committee has identified a number of corrupt business transactions that may or may not be criminal. Of course you have to investigate to find out. So I think Donald Trump’s saying, ‘look, let’s do the basic work of investigating wrongdoing,’ is a totally reasonable thing for him to do. And frankly, the Biden administration has done far worse. So if you think that what Donald Trump is proposing is a threat to democracy, isn’t what Biden has already done a massive threat to our system of law and government?” Welker tried to absolve Biden from the controversy by noting that he did not directly hire the special prosecutor in the Trump cases. “I have to reject the premise here. Joe Biden appointed the Attorney General, Merrick Garland, who of course answers to Joe Biden, can be fired by Joe Biden,” Vance fired back. “So the idea that the Biden administration has nothing to do with the appointment of the special prosecutor, I think, completely betrays a misunderstanding of how our system of government actually works. And of course, Kristen, we have to make this point, Kristen, that the prosecution of Donald Trump in New York, which I think now has fundamentally been thrown in doubt by this immunity case, one of the main guys was a Department of Justice official in the Biden administration who jumped ship to join a local prosecutor’s office to go after Donald Trump.” When Welker again tried to downplay the ties between the Biden administration and the criminal cases against Trump, Vance fired back: “Well, Kristen, first of all you said that it happens all the time, that the number three person in the Department of Justice jumped ship to join a local prosecutor’s office to go after the president’s political opponent? I don’t think that’s ever happened in the history of American democracy. And I don’t think that we should legitimize it.” WATCH:

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To close out her interview of Senator JD Vance (R-OH), NBC’s Kristen Welker trotted out the tired election acceptance question asked of every Republican appearing on an Acela Media Sunday talk show, and especially of Trump vice presidential shortlisters.  Watch as Vance flips the question on its head and shuts Welker down (click "expand"): NBC MEET THE PRESS JULY 7th, 2024 10:30 AM KRISTEN WELKER: Well, here we are, about a week before the Republican convention. Before I let you go: can you say unequivocally- unequivocally, here and now, that you will accept the results of the 2024 election no matter what they are? JD VANCE: So long as it's a free and fair election, Kristen, of course, we will. We will use constitutional processes to challenge issues if we think there are issues, but if it's a free and fair election we will do what the Constitution requires, we will respect the results and I expect these results are going to be to reelect Donald Trump. WELKER: It was a free and fair election in 2020, Donald Trump took his concerns to court. He lost in court but he has not conceded. Do you understand that when you refuse to commit unequivocally, that feeds into people's concerns- skepticism about the nation's electoral process? VANCE: Well, Kristen, I don't agree with that, actually. I think that feeding into people's concerns about our electoral process is one half of America's political segment, they won't support legislation that makes it harder for illegal aliens to vote. They won’t support universal voter ID in our elections even though you have to present I.D. to do almost anything in this country. I think taking people’s concerns seriously about election fraud… WELKER: Senator…Senator…Senator, it’s already against the law… VANCE: …is the way to reinforce security and confidence in our elections. WELKER: Senator, it's already against the law for non-citizens to vote. But just on that very point: when you, when others refuse to say, “yes, we will accept the election results”, do you understand how that undermines people's confidence in the electoral system? WELKER: But Kristen, what I just said is I don't agree with that. What I think actually undermines people's confidence in the electoral system is when the media is incurious about obvious examples of problems in our electoral system. I think we’ve got great elections, but a lot of things could be better in certain states. I want to work to make that happen so the American people have greater confidence in our elections. That’s what I’ll keep doing.  This week, the House of Representatives takes up legislation requiring proof of United States citizenship prior to voting in elections. Axios notes that Democrats are whipping against this bill: State of play: The House is set to vote next week on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act, which would require "documentary proof of United States citizenship" to vote in federal elections. That could include a passport, a photo ID card that proves a voter was born in the U.S. or another form of photo ID along with supporting documentation such as a birth certificate, the bill says. The legislation would require non-citizens to be removed from voter registration rolls, require election officials to ask voter registration applicants for proof of citizenship and open them up to legal consequences if they do not. Driving the news: In a whip question — a roundup of the coming week's votes with instructions for how leadership wants rank-and-file members to vote — House Minority Whip Katherine Clark's (D-Mass.) office told House Democrats they are "urged to VOTE NO" on the bill. Additionally, the majority-Democrat Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed a prior ruling limiting placement of ballot drop boxes. This is the backdrop against which Welker makes her baity election questions. But these issues never make it into Welker’s line of questioning. To the blinkered Regime Media, election acceptance means that Republicans must supinely accept an election result regardless of outcome and evidence of trickery, and without questioning last-minute rule changes. Anyone legitimately questioning these is smeared as an “election denialist” or, God forbid, an ‘insurrectionist".  Vance sees through this nonsense, and forcefully brings the issue back to election integrity, which Welker can't counter. The rest of the interview followed this template, whether on abortion, Project 2025, the vice presidential selection process, or the Supreme Court ruling clarifying presidential immunity- which the left and their media enablers are trying to spin as some weird extra constitutional carte blanche authority. In a week where all focus is both on the president’s declining cognitive ability and the media’s failure to conceal it from the American public, Welker tried albeit briefly to shift focus- and failed badly.  

The ongoing discourse surrounding the very public decline of President Biden’s mental faculties has broken some brains among the Regime Media commentariat as they stake their positions in the grand succession game. Among those, former DNC Chair Donna Brazile. Watch as Brazile fabricates a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris that never happened: ABC THIS WEEK 7/7/24 11:36 AM GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Donna, it's all hypothetical, but let's talk about the possibilities if President Biden does indeed decide to step aside. Foregone conclusion that Kamala Harris gets the nomination? DONNA BRAZILE: It would be very difficult to replace somebody who's been vetted, who knows the job and has done a tremendous -- I think she's done a tremendous job and to ask the delegates elected to the convention, who are Biden-Harris supporters, to bypass Kamala Harris because some Republicans and a few others may not like her, it would be political malpractice. As I tell everyone, Kamala Harris has earned the right to be considered if -- I mean, we got a lot of "what if” scenarios. But- she’s strong, she’s down in Louisiana, she was able- she had a rally last night with 60,000 people, I’ve heard from so many folks including my family- they say she’s fired up and ready to go. And they’re not going to replace her.  Sounds impressive, right? Brazile’s advocacy for Harris was reasonably fine until she got to the “but”, and made a whopper of a claim that doesn’t survive so much as a basic Google search. Needless to say, there was no Kamala Harris rally attended by 60,000 people in Louisiana. There was the 30th Essence Festival of Culture, the concert portions of which are held in the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. And Harris popped in on Friday night, to greet the crowd and promote her next appearance. This is obviously not a rally. It was a joy to be back in New Orleans this weekend to mark 30 years of @essencefest. Let us always celebrate the diversity, depth, and beauty of our culture. pic.twitter.com/xVCHFP90Mi — Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) July 7, 2024 The following day, Harris joined the CEO of Essence for a “Chief-to-Chief” discussion, as part of the Festival of Culture. Here’s how the event was described in The Guardian’s egregiously giddy writeup, which desperately seeks inclusion among the items touting Harris’ next reboot: The ideal understudy is talented but inconspicuous, prepared at all times to step into the top role and yet content to never do so. In New Orleans, at the 30th annual Essence Festival of Culture, gone was the Kamala Harris of the drab brown, chair-matching suit and the halting, technical commentary about American policy needs. That was the Harris who spoke here in 2019, then a Democratic presidential primary contender trailed by fewer than 10 reporters. Instead, on Saturday, Harris – dressed in a bright teal suit and tailed by a press contingent which had expanded to more than four times its previous size – spoke to a standing-room-only crowd in a room equipped to seat more than 500 people. Not a rally, either. 500 people is precisely 1/120th of the people Brazile said were present at this aforementioned and now proven to be imaginary rally in support of the vice president and potential Democrat presidential nominee.  Brazile’s claims went unchecked and unchallenged. Part of what bolsters the perception of the media as little more than Democrat stenographers and talking point dispensers is the longtime practice of hiring partisan Democrat operatives as “analysts”. In particular, the “analyst” that fed presidential debate questions to the Clinton campaign, who is now emboldened to fabricate events out of whole cloth.  

White House staffers provide President Joe Biden with large print and photos to show him the exact path to walk to and from a podium during public events, according to a new report. According to a report published by Axios on Sunday, staffers prepare President Biden for events by giving him verbal and visual instructions on how to walk to the podium. The report – which contained images of the visual aids – shows a large print with the White House logo on top and then a photo of the path to the podium from backstage. In large print, it reads: "Walk to podium." Another print had a photo with large text that read: "View from podium" and "View from audience." An unnamed staffer who worked at an event in the past 18 months told the outlet, "I staffed a simple fundraiser at a private residence, but they treated it like it was a NATO summit with his movements."The White House staffer noted, "It surprised me that a seasoned political pro like the president would need detailed verbal and visual instructions on how to enter and exit a room."Sources told Axios that "other prominent principals in the Biden administration use similar methods for plotting his movements."Despite much of the legacy media denying that Biden has suffered any cognitive decline in the past months and years, much of the media has changed its tune since the disastrous first presidential debate performance by the 81-year-old president. However, it isn't just the mainstream media that has turned on Biden. Fellow Democrats have called for Biden to step down as the party's presidential nominee. NPR reported that several senior House Democrats told House Democratic leaders that Biden should end his presidential campaign for re-election during a virtual meeting on Sunday. Democrats calling for Biden to drop out of the race during the meeting include Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, the top Democrat on House Armed Services panel, Rep. Mark Takano of California, the top Democrat on the Veterans Affairs panel, and Rep. Joe Morelle of New York, the ranking member of the House Administration panel.According to MSNBC, there are seven other Democratic Congress members demanding that Biden pull out of the ticket. At least five major Democratic donors have stated it would be best for the party if Biden steps down, including Netflix's co-founder and executive chairman Reed Hastings.President Biden reiterated that he would not abandon his presidential campaign in a shaky ABC News interview on Friday. Biden told host George Stephanopoulos that he would only drop out of the race if the Lord Almighty came down to instruct him to do so."Look. I mean, if the Lord Almighty came down and said, 'Joe, get outta the race,' I'd get outta the race. The Lord Almighty's not comin' down. I mean, these hypotheticals, George, if, I mean, it's all," Biden said.On Sunday, Biden was campaigning in the swing state of Pennsylvania and suffered some questionable moments that did not appear to help his cause. Video shows the president rambling when talking to the crowd at a campaign event. While talking to voters in Pennsylvania, President Biden said Philadelphia helped him win his senatorial race decades ago in Delaware. “Even when I was running for Senate, each time I ran, quite frankly, not a joke, Philadelphia, in particular, got me across the line,” Biden said at the campaign event in Philly. He doubled down by saying, “No, I’m not joking. No, I mean it, seriously, organizationally, and in terms of fundraising — the whole deal.”Biden was a U.S. senator for Delaware between 1973 to 2009.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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