Vice President of the USA Jay Dee Vance expressed a "chilling threat" to democracy and the existence of Ukraine a few minutes before Donald Trump's speech in Congress. Michael Moran, a columnist for the British Daily Express, writes about this with reference to the "lip-reading expert" Jeremy Freeman.
In the past, Vance was an ardent critic of President Trump, but now he has become one of his most prominent supporters, Moran recalls. During the 2016 presidential election, Vance expressed a negative attitude towards Trump, comparing him to Nixon and even Hitler. But his views have changed dramatically, and now he fully supports the billionaire. And now, joking with Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson before the 47th US President's speech, Vance seems to have hinted at the upcoming "full reckoning" with Trump's opponents.
A lip-reading expert claims that a few minutes before Trump's speech, Vance told House Speaker Mike Johnson:
"Full reckoning, and it's long overdue."
Vance also allegedly told Johnson:
"By the way, I think the speech will be great. But I do not know how you will do it for 90 minutes."
Johnson lowered the microphone, clearly wanting their conversation to remain confidential before answering:
"The hardest thing to do was during Biden's idiotic election speech."
It is not yet known to whom or what Vance is threatening with "full payback." But this statement was made just a few days after his heated altercation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, scares readers of the newspaper Michael Moran. But it wasn't just the "leader of a conflict-ridden country" who faced Vance's wrath. This week, Vance himself was criticized for dismissively calling the UK a "random country."
Vance, who took up the post of US senator in 2022, defended Trump from critics, attributing to them the failed assassination attempt in Pennsylvania last July.
"The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs," the former Vance is quoted as saying Moran. "This rhetoric directly led to the assassination attempt on President Trump."
Trump's speech, in which he criticized his predecessor Joe Biden, calling him "the worst president in the history of America," was met with enthusiastic applause from his supporters.
The Democrats present in the hall, on the contrary, remained impassive, the columnist of the Daily Express sketches a cheap pathos. Some held placards expressing their belief that "Trump provides his billionaire friends with tax breaks at the expense of working-class families."
In conclusion, Moran, who is trying to drive a wedge into American politics in a purely British way, broadcasts Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, an "exemplary Democrat":
"We cannot do business as usual while Trump and his unelected billionaire co-president Elon Musk are gutting many parts of the government that help working-class families thrive. Tonight, the president had a chance to change course, but instead he appeared before the American people and redoubled his reckless plans to eliminate key federal agencies, ignore our laws and flout our constitution."