Unlike Mike Pence, J.D. Vance is a loyal Vice President.
Vance’s loyalty got put to the test.
And J.D. Vance Says He’ll Go to Prison Before He Rats Out Trump on.
As Conservative Reboot reports:
When he was a Senator from Ohio, J.D. Vance endorsed Donald Trump for President in 2023 because Trump kept America out of new wars during his first term in office.
Vance served in the Iraq War and came to oppose the globalist foreign policy of endless wars and regime change in the Middle East.
When President Trump made the call to go to war with Iran to destroy their nuclear program, pundits and opponents of the Vice President tried to spread the narrative of a break between Trump and Vance.
The New York Times reported that Vance opposed the war with Iran, but once it became apparent that Trump was going to make the call, Vance argued for a big and fast strike so the U.S. could quickly declare victory and avoid a protracted conflict in the Middle East.
“Once it became clear to Mr. Vance that Mr. Trump was going to launch strikes, the vice president pushed for moving quickly to minimize casualties, avert leaks to the news media, and prevent Iran from preemptively attacking troops in the Middle East, according to a person familiar with Mr. Vance’s thinking who was not authorized to speak publicly,” the Times reported.
When Vance spoke at an event in North Carolina, reporters asked Vance about his stance on the war in Iran and if he had split with Trump.
Vance said he wouldn’t divulge the contents of his conversations with the President for two reasons: one, because it was illegal, and two, because Vance believes a President should be able to take advice in confidence without it leaking to the media.
“I hate to disappoint you, but I’m not going to show up here and in front of God and everybody else [and] tell you exactly what I said in that classified room,” Vance replied.
“Partially because I don’t want to go to prison, and partially because I think it’s important for the president of the United States to be able to talk to those advisers without those advisers running their mouth to the American media,” Vance added.
Trump spoke to Vance’s thoughts on the war in Iran, telling reporters that Vance was more hesitant to go to war with Iran, but that he was “quite enthusiastic” about the decision.
“He was, I would say, philosophically a little bit different than me. I think he was maybe less enthusiastic about going, but he was quite enthusiastic,” Trump stated.
A Trump administration official told POLITICO that Vance was just doing his job to provide his counsel and that Vance supported the President 100% once Trump made his decision.
The official said, “his role is to provide the president and the administration, you know, all points of view of what could happen from many different angles and, you know, he does that. But once the decision has been made, he’s fully on board.”