Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance has recently received praise for his handling of a hostile interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. During the conversation, which devolved into heated back-and-forth exchanges in which emotions flared at times, Vance defended former President Donald Trump while calling out the left-leaning network for propagating hoaxes and taking Trump’s words out of context.
At one point in the interview, Tapper pressed Vance on Trump’s comments that some have interpreted as “fascist.” However, Vance maintained that he “doesn’t buy into the premise” of Tapper’s claims, stating that he was taking Trump’s words out of context. The Ohio senator asserted that if Trump’s comments were presented in context, they would be “reasonable.”
“I’m rejecting the premise of your question. I frankly don’t believe what you’re saying about Donald Trump’s words. If you’d like to put up a clip and actually put him in context, I think the American people would realize that Donald Trump is a hell of a lot more reasonable than the people like Liz Cheney, who would like to lead us into war,” Vance said to Tapper.
Users on social media reacted to the senator’s handling of the interview, praising him. “Vance is so intellectually advanced that he displays no animosity while smoothly dismantling Jake Tapper, who seemingly was sent out to even the score after Harris flopped with Anderson Cooper on the same network just days before,” one person wrote, praising Vance’s professionalism in the interview.
“Tapper is another perfect example of why no one trusts Legacy Media anymore. JD Vance still puts on a master class on how to handle legacy media,” another person said, echoing this sentiment. “JD is a gifted lawyer, among other things. Tapper is no match, cannot comprehend the point of the conversation due to his own subconscious. JD is letting him know, all MSM does is attack a ‘mismatch’ of clips from Trump, never speaking to what he offers. They can’t get there,” another user commented, praising Vance’s maneuvering.
At another point during the interview, Vance called out CNN on pushing the debunked Russia hoax. “Ask yourself a basic question about network integrity. You guys talked about the Russia hoax. Non stop.” Tapper fired back, stammering, “The FBI was investigating it. The FBI was investigating it. We so we loop, so we covered that.”
Undeterred, Vance continued criticizing Trump, ”And so you took the words of unnamed FBI agents and put them on your network as if they were the Gospel truth. You did it again and again. A viewer of your network would have believed that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin conspired in 2016, that was totally and preposterously false.”
Watch a clip from the interview below:
Tappers said, “We covered an FBI investigation. I don’t know why you want to talk about the FBI investigation.” Cutting off the host, Vance further stated, “You covered it in a way that gave credence to anonymous sources, accusations. You did it yourself, your network did it, Jake. But again, can we talk about the issues that Americans…He talks about how he wants to unleash American energy so we can lower the cost of groceries. He talks about the fact that housing has become unaffordable.”
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