New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro made repeated attempts to bait Senator JD Vance (R-OH), vice-presidential running mate to former President Donald Trump, but Vance made it clear early on that he was not having it. Vance sat for the interview last week, and several clips made their way to X on Friday — including one in which Garcia-Navarro pressured Vance five times to say that Trump had lost the 2020 presidential election. WATCH: WATCH: @JDVance flips the script on a New York Times reporter by pointing out that the government, media, and Big Tech rigged the 2020 election by teaming up to censor the Hunter Biden laptop, costing President Trump millions of votes.? pic.twitter.com/2EO9Tl3v0a — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 11, 2024 “In the debate, you were asked to clarify if you believe Trump lost the 2020 election,” she began. “Do you believe he lost the 2020 election?” “I think that Donald Trump and I have both raised a number of issues with the 2020 election, but we’re focused on the future,” Vance replied. “I think there’s an obsession here with focusing on 2020. I’m much more worried about what happened after 2020, which is a wide-open border, groceries that are unaffordable, and look, Lulu —” “Senator, yes or no,” Garcia-Navarro interrupted. “Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?” “Let me ask you a question,” Vance pushed back. “Is it okay that big technology companies censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, which independent analyses have said cost Donald Trump millions of votes?” Garcia-Navarro ignored Vance’s question, saying instead, “Senator Vance, I’m going to ask you again. Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?” “Did big technology companies censor a story that independent studies have suggested would have cost Trump millions of votes?” Vance refused to budge. “That’s the question.” “Senator Vance, I’m going to ask you again,” Garcia-Navarro repeated. “Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?” “And I’ve answered your question with another question,” Vance shot back. “You answer my question, then I’ll answer yours.” “I’ve asked this question repeatedly. This is something that is very important for the American people to know,” Garcia-Navarro insisted. “There is no proof, legal or otherwise, that Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election.” “You’re repeating a slogan rather than engaging with what I’m saying,” Vance protested, arguing that it was irresponsible to answer her question without acknowledging the context that complicated either answer. “I’m worried about Americans who feel like there were problems in 2020, I’m not worried about this slogan that people throw out — ‘Well, every court case went this way — I’m talking about something very discrete: a problem of censorship in this country that I do think affected things in 2020, and more importantly, that led to Kamala Harris’ governance which has screwed this country up in a big way.” In a second clip, Garcia-Navarro attempted to separate the housing crisis in the United States from the massive influx of illegal immigrants under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, and Vance was not having that either. WATCH: JD Vance puts on an absolute masterclass in a NYT interview where the host tries to gaslight him on America’s housing crisis and illegal immigration problem ? pic.twitter.com/Ygf76R4OXc — CartierFamily (@cartierfamilyZ) October 13, 2024 “One thing that everyone agrees on is that more housing is necessary in this country, right? The reason that there is a housing crisis is that not enough houses have been built — Garcia-Navarro said, but Vane interrupted. “And that we have 25 million people who shouldn’t be here. I think it’s both,” he said. Garcia-Navarro went on to suggest that the housing crisis would get worse if illegal immigrants were deported because, she argued, they composed a large percentage of the labor force in the construction industry. “Well, I think it’s a fair question because we know that back in the 1960s, when we had very low levels of illegal immigration, Americans didn’t build houses,” Vance dead-panned. “But, of course they did. And I’m being sarcastic in service of a point, Lulu: the assumption that because a large number of homebuilders now are using undocumented labor, that that’s the only way to build homes, I think again betrays a fundamental —” “The country is much bigger. The need is much bigger,” Garcia-Navarro protested. “I’m not arguing in favor of illegal immigration. I’m asking how you would deal with the knock-on effect of your proposal to remove millions of people who work in a critical part of the economy.” “Well, I think that what you would do is you would take, let’s say for example, the seven million prime-age men who have dropped out of the labor force, and you have a smaller number of women, but still millions of women, prime age, who have dropped out of the labor force. You absolutely could re-engage folks into the American labor market,” Vance replied. Garcia-Navarro floated the argument that illegal immigrants had to be allowed to stay because Americans wouldn’t do those jobs. “People say, well, Americans won’t do those jobs. Americans won’t do those jobs for below-the-table wages. They won’t do those jobs for non-living wages. But people will do those jobs, they will just do those jobs at certain wages,” Vance argued. “We cannot have an entire American business community that is giving up on American workers and then importing millions of illegal laborers. That is what we have thanks to Kamala Harris’s border policies. I think it’s one of the biggest drivers of inequality.”

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) slammed ABC News host Martha Raddatz during an interview over the weekend for down playing the seriousness of illegal alien crime in the U.S. The exchange happened Sunday on the network’s “This Week” show when Raddatz suggested that it was not a big deal that a “a handful of apartment complexes” were taken over by criminal illegal alien gangs from Venezuela. “Senator Vance, I’m going to stop you because I know exactly what happened,” Raddatz claimed. “I’m going to stop you. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns. A handful of problems.” Vance fired back: “Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem, and not Kamala Harris’s open border?” “Americans are so fed up with what’s going on and they have every right to be and I really find this exchange, Martha, sort of interesting because you seem to be more focused with nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America are being taken over by violent gangs,” he continued. Vance said that he worries more about the crime in the U.S. than any other issue facing the country and that making the country safe again was a top priority. “And unfortunately, when you let people in by the millions, most of whom are unvetted, most of whom you don’t know who they really are, you’re going to have problems like this,” he said. “Kamala Harris’ 94 executive orders that undid Donald Trump’s successful border policies, we knew this stuff would happen.” Vance later reacted to the segment with a post on X: “When your town is overrun with violent criminal gangs, Kamala Harris and her friends will say, “well, it’s only a handful of apartment complexes” that have been overrun by illegal gangs.” “The only acceptable number of American apartments overrun by criminal gangs is zero,” he said. WATCH: Raddatz: “The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes… A handful!”@JDVance: “Do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes were taken over by Venezuelan gangs and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris’ open border?” ? pic.twitter.com/VY4Ai35YJk — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 13, 2024

The U.S. Military is sending an advanced anti-missile system to Israel along with a rare deployment of U.S. soldiers inside Israel who are needed to operate the systems. The Department of Defense announced on Sunday the deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery after Iran fired hundreds of missiles at Israel in April and October “The THAAD Battery will augment Israel’s integrated air defense system,” the Pentagon said in a statement. “This action underscores the United States’ ironclad commitment to the defense of Israel, and to defend Americans in Israel, from any further ballistic missile attacks by Iran.” The news comes as Israel prepares to retaliate against Iran over their latest attack, firing approximately 180 ballistic missiles at Israel at the start of the month. After the attack in April, Israel responded with a very limited strike that was intended to send a message rather than cause serious damage. This time it is widely expected, based on remarks from Israeli officials and assessments from analysts, that Israel is going to respond with significantly greater force. The THAAD system uses “hit-to-kill” technology to destroy incoming missiles and is capable of engaging targets well over 100 miles away. In the U.S. arsenal, the THAAD “covers the [U.S. ballistic missile defense] middle tier and defends a larger area than the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System,” according to congressional research documents. “It complements the Patriot, the Navy’s AEGIS Missile Defense System, and the Ground-based Midcourse Defense System.” A THAAD battery typically consists of “95 soldiers, six truck mounted launchers, 48 interceptors (eight per launcher), one Army/Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance and Control Mode 2 (AN/TPY-2) radar, and a Tactical Fire Control/Communications component.” The system, developed by Lockheed Martin Corporation, was designed to shoot down short-range, medium-range, and limited intermediate-range ballistic missile threats inside or outside the atmosphere during their final (terminal) phase of flight.

Former President Donald Trump said during an interview over the weekend that business magnate Elon Musk will be the “Secretary of Cost-Cutting” in his administration should he win next month’s election. Trump made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” when asked what agencies he wanted to shut down. “Well, let me ask have you ask another person that, because I’m going to have Elon Musk, he is dying to do this,” Trump said. “You know he’s a great business guy, actually.” “You think of him for science and rockets, and every time he’s telling me about a new screw that was developed, he’s developed a new screw,” he continued. “Screws are difficult. And it’s made out of titanium and it’s so exciting.” “But you know what? He’s a great business guy, and he’s a great cost-cutter, he added. “You’ve seen that. Cost cutter. And he said I could cut cost without affecting anybody.” Trump said that it would not be a cabinet position because Musk does not want to be in the cabinet. “He wants to be in charge of cost-cutting,” Trump said. “We’ll have a new position, Secretary of Cost-Cutting, okay? Elon wants to do that. He’s running a big business. He can’t just say I think I’ll go into the cabinet. Other people can, he can’t. Elon’s a little bit different.” Trump added that Musk promised to go to Mars before the end of Trump’s term, should Trump win again, which would be “long before” China or Russia. WATCH: Donald Trump tells Fox News that he’s made a deal with Elon Musk to have him cut all the useless parts of the US government, and he will get to Mars. Maria Bartiromo: You’ve said there’s a lot of fat in government. So what agencies would you like to shut down? Donald Trump:… pic.twitter.com/fzWNSVpsp7 — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 13, 2024

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