A former federal prosecutor took it upon herself on Thanksgiving eve to lift up anyone feeling glum about the state of the country’s legal system in the face of Donald Trump swapping any criminal consequences as he instead plots his return to the White House. Joyce Vance told readers on Wednesday that it might feel like Trump has shattered the …
At the same time that Donald Trump is flooding his Truth Social account with sketchy reports that Vice President Kamala Harris wanted to defund the police — when she was questioning where the funding should go — comes news from the New York Times that Sen. J.D. In emails and texts obtained by the Times from Vance's longtime friend Sofia …
Donald Trump's allies are already second-guessing his decision to name Sen. J.D. The 39-year-old first-term senator is the least experienced major-party running mate in nearly a century, and the Trump critic-turned-Trump lieutenant adds little to the ticket – especially after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and threw his support behind his own running mate, Kamala Harris, wrote …
What I’ve always remembered most clearly from J.D. As Vance relates in his afterword, critics of Hillbilly Elegy from the left accused the book of being “a victim-blaming piece of anti-government libertarianism,” while those from the right swore that it prescribed “a massive expansion of government welfare programs.” At the time, before Vance launched his political career, his policy positions …
Hours after Donald Trump was shot in the ear by a would-be assassin, his most avid high-profile supporters were hard at work pinning blame for the shooting on what they call overheated rhetoric by Democrats who have been pointing at his criminal record and his links to the authoritarian Project 2025. According to Slate political analyst Emily Tankin, that concerted …