Crooked Media - Vance, lies and videotape

Thursday, August 15, 2024 BY CROOKED MEDIA

- Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) in Boston on Wednesday night, with a sick burn on former football coach Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).

MAGAworld is suffering under an avalanche of embarrassing old audio and video tapes. The deluge presents an electoral challenge: explaining the stuff they actually said.

Another day, another rash of awkward headlines for top MAGA lieutenants, in which their own comments come back to haunt them. The man leading the trend, of course, is GOP veep nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH). The guy has said so many unfortunate, politically-inadvisable things in the past, it sometimes feels like his future self traveled back in time to deliberately sabotage his own campaign. (Not that we could prove this happened… but lately it sure feels like it!)

On Wednesday, yet another damaging audio recording resurfaced. This time, Vance endorsed the idea that grandmothers exist to raise grandchildren. Or, in the dystopian phrasing of the podcast host who interviewed Vance, raising grandkids is “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female.” On the tape, Vance can be heard interjecting near the end of that comment: “Yes!”

In a 2021 speech uncovered by the x, Vance floated the unfounded conspiracy theory that Amazon bankrolled the Black Lives Matter protests in order to literally incinerate competing retail stores. “Who benefits most when small businesses on Main Street are destroyed? Who wants to see their competitors unable to deliver goods and services to people, so that you get it delivered in your brown Amazon box? Jeff Bezos,” Vance said. Why does everything this guy says sound like it was spit out of an incel machine?

In the same speech, Vance expressed the unhinged view that corporations that support abortion rights just want “cheap labor” from workers who are unburdened by cost and commitment of childcare.

Vance, of course, is hardly the only member of MAGAworld wrestling with past remarks.

Just take a look at anyone associated with the controversial Project 2025, the infamous right-wing plan to reshape the federal government. Trump has tried to deny knowing anything about the plan, which his former top aides wrote. But unfortunately for Trump, Russell Vought, a key author of the 900-word policy proposal, was filmed by a British journalism nonprofit, the Centre for Climate Reporting, dismissing Trump’s attempts to distance himself from Project 2025 as simply “graduate-level politics.”

Trump “blessed” the effort and is “very supportive of what we do,” Vought said. He went on to outline his vision to expand the powers of the executive branch, orchestrate the largest mass deportation in history and how he is working on “what’s necessary to take control of these bureaucracies.”

Keep talkin’, guys.

A veep showdown is officially on the books. Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz publicly committed Wednesday night to an October 1st showdown with his Republican counterpart, JD Vance.

Traditionally, vice presidential debates don’t count for much. But after a historically disastrous performance ended President Biden’s campaign this summer, no one can safely say that debates don’t matter.

Walz signaled that he plans to target Vance over the notorious right-wing Project 2025. “Heck, he even wrote the foreword for the architect of the Project 2025 agenda,” Walz said in a campaign email Wednesday night. “I am going to do my best to make sure everyone watching our debate knows just that.”

CBS News’s Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan will moderate the veep debate. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have so far agreed to a September 10 debate, to be moderated by ABC News.

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Donald Trump’s attorneys asked Judge Juan Merchan to postpone sentencing in Trump’s criminal hush money case from September 18 until after the November election.

Kamala Harris plans to call for the construction of 3 million new housing units in her first term, along with tax incentives for those who build homes for first-time buyers, the Wall Street Journal reported.

President Joe Biden believed he still had a narrow path to victory, but finally bowed out of the presidential race over concerns about lasting damage to the Democratic Party, according to a new behind-the-scenes report from the New York Times.

Columbia University president Minouche Shafik resigned from her post on Wednesday after a wave of criticism for her handling of pro-Palestinian protests on campus over the war in Gaza. She is the third Ivy League president to step down amid similar circumstances.

Five individuals have been arrested in connection with the death of Matthew Perry, including the deceased actor’s assistant and two doctors. They are accused of being involved in the procurement of Ketamine, which played a role in the Friends star’s fatal overdose.

Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) is poised to name his former chief of staff George Helmy to serve as a temporary replacement to Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), who will resign later this month after Menendez was convicted on federal bribery charges, according to a report from the Associated Press.

The Trump campaign brought back the infamous Corey Lewnadowski as an advisor, perhaps in an attempt to right the ship. But the move almost immediately backfired when Lewnadowski, just hours after being welcomed back into the fold, fired off a tweet calling on voters to “get off the couch” — an unfortunate use of words when your veep candidate’s romantic history with furniture is already a favorite internet joke. Smooth one, Corey!

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Companies have added more than 330,000 new clean energy jobs since Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law two years ago, according to a new report. Many of these jobs are union positions with solid salaries that don’t require college degrees.

Sen. Jackie Rosen (D-NV) has edged out her Republican challenger Sam Brown in recent polls, suggesting a potential Democratic win in Nevada, a state previously seen as a likely pickup for the GOP.

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