Vice President J.D. Vance wanted to put his mark on the news administration.
Vance took a big swing.
And Donald Trump had one response to J.D. Vance that put jaws on the ground.
Donald Trump supports J.D. Vance’s tough message to Europe
Vice President Vance staked the Munich Security Conference to deliver his first major address since taking office.
Vance walked into the globalist Left’s lion’s den and told the Europeans straight to their faces that their assault on fundamental rights, such as free speech, was the greatest threat the continent faced.
“The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia. It’s not China. It’s not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within,” Vance began. “The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.”
The Europeans were stunned.
Officials at the conference expected to hear the usual slogans about Russian aggression and the fate of Western Civilization hinging on the outcome of the war in Ukraine.
Instead, Vance said the Europeans were the ones threatening to destroy democracy by suppressing free speech and vetoing election results the Left didn’t like.
“Dismissing people, dismissing their concerns . . . shutting down media, shutting down elections . . . protects nothing. It is the most surefire way to destroy democracy . . . If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you,” Vance declared.
Vance ticked off numerous instances of European governments arresting Christians for praying to end abortion as an unacceptable attack on free speech.
The Vice President also warned Europeans that canceling elections like what happened when a conservative party won in Romania and a court voided the result using a hoax about Russian meddling did more to undermine Democrat values than memes Vladimir Putin paid to run on Facebook in 2016.
“When we see European courts canceling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others, we ought to ask whether we’re holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard,” Vance added.
European elites, the media, and RINOs were aghast.
Many in the establishment hoped Trump would distance himself from Vance’s speech and throw him under the bus.
These hopes rested on the preposterous belief that Trump sidelined Vance based on the fact that Trump refused to endorse Vance as his successor three years and nine months before the next election.
Reporters raced to the Oval Office to ask Trump what he thought of Vance’s speech.
Instead of burying Vance, Trump praised Vance and declared protecting free speech was a top priority of his administration and that if Europe continued to restrict the free exchange of ideas they were going to have big problems.
“I heard his speech, and he talked about freedom of speech. And I think it’s true,” Trump told the press. “In Europe, they’re losing their wonderful right of freedom of speech. I see it . . . Europe has to be careful.”
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