Jake Tapper laughs in J.D. Vance’s face on CNN’s “State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.”
Jake Tapper couldn’t help but laugh after the Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance revealed a new theory about why several prominent Republicans turned away about your partner Donald Trump.
Tapper was skeptical after Vance suggested that the former Vice President Mike Pence distanced himself from the Republican candidate after learning that he could not “control” Trump and steer him away from his desire for “world peace.”
“Including former Vice President Mike Pence, all these people have a horribly screwed up worldview and they’re all just going after Donald Trump because they want to send people to war? Is this really your argument? Tapper was questioned on Sunday morning State of the Union broadcast.
“Absolutely, that’s my argument,” Vance agreed.
Vance then said that while Trump was on the path to peace, his former vice president had other plans.
“All these people, Jake, came to power thinking they could control Donald Trump. That when he said he wanted world peace…
Tapper interrupted: “Mike Pence thought he could control Donald Trump?”
“Yes, he did,” Vance said firmly.
“Ha! Really?” Tapper asked with a laugh.
Although Vance claimed that Pence and other Trump detractors were “angry” about the former president’s White House policies, Pence himself had previously said the opposite.
“It is no surprise that I will not be supporting Donald Trump this year,” Pence said back in March, adding that Trump has “pursued and articulated an agenda that runs counter to the conservative agenda that we have governed for four of our four years.” years.”