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Calls for J.D. Vance to be disqualified as Trump VP for response to shooting not going to fly

July 15, 2024 | | Print Article

Former Obama henchman David Axelrod and former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger are crying foul over Sen. J.D. Vance’s assessment of events that led up to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday, and both are crying that he should be disqualified as a potential vice presidential candidate for Trump.

Vance spoke the truth about the dehumanizing vilification of Donald Trump in a post on X, a campaign that includes Trump not only being compared to Hitler but, in some cases, even being called Hitler. A campaign that saw President Joe Biden regularly call the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee “the greatest threat to our democracy” and a “threat to America.”

“Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination,” the Republican senator from Ohio posted on X after an assassin’s bullet struck Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Vance is on Trump’s shortlist as a potential running mate and Axelrod feigned outrage over the Biden campaign being implicated as a possible accessory in the shooting, calling for him to be disqualified.

Note that one day out from the attempt on Trump’s life, Axelrod saw fit to use the idiom “shoot from the hip.”

“If @JDVance1 is on the short list for VP, this Tweet, sent an hour after the assassination attempt in PA, ought to disqualify him in the eyes of the Trump campaign. Wrong vibe in that moment. And as we now are learning, the gunman’s profile doesn’t seem to match Vance’s premise. But at least wait and see! Trump probably doesn’t want a shoot-from-the-hip VP,” posted Obama’s former strategist.

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Keep in mind that President Biden posted this remark the day BEFORE Trump was shot:

Kinzinger, who became a liberal media darling with his newfound career as a Republican denouncing Trump, echoed Axelrod’s sentiments:

Given that Kinzinger eagerly joined with rejected GOP politician Liz Cheney as the token Republicans on Nancy Pelosi’s sham, one-sided Jan. 6 select committee, it’s fair to suggest that he forfeited any right to comment on GOP events.

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The left has been running with the fact that the shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was a registered Republican, but records show that an individual matching Crooks’ name made a donation to ActBlue earmarked for the Progressive Turnout Project, a political action committee that aims to mobilize Democratic voters. Online speculation suggests that Crooks may have registered as a Republican to vote against Trump in the primary — Pennsylvania is a closed-primary state.

As for Vance, there were plenty of responses suggesting that his remarks are the precise reason why he should be named Trump’s vice president.

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:

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