Vice President JD Vance: “I Don’t Want To Go To Prison”
Vice President JD Vance displayed his loyalty to President Trump on Friday afternoon.
After speaking at an event in North Carolina, Vice President JD Vance was asked what he said to President Trump in the Situation Room prior to the United States launching attacks on Iran.
Vance quickly perceived the question was baited and shared he would not share classified information because he doesn’t want to go to prison.
Fox News provided quotes from JD Vance’s statement:
Vice President JD Vance declined Friday to detail what advice he has given President Donald Trump about the war with Iran, citing the classified nature of the discussions.
Speaking in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Vance said conversations inside the Situation Room involve senior officials including Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“I hate to disappoint you, but I’m not going to show up here in front of God and everybody else and tell you exactly what I said in that classified room,” Vance said.
“Partially because I don’t want to go to prison,” he added, “and partially because I think it’s important for the president of the United States to be able to talk to his advisers without those advisers running their mouth to the American media.”
Vance also added during a gaggle after his remarks that the new Iranian supreme leader has been injured amid ongoing strikes, though officials are still working to determine how serious the wounds are.
“We know that he’s hurt,” Vance told reporters.
The vice president said it’s unclear whether the injuries were caused by a U.S. strike or an Israeli operation, noting the situation inside Iran is “very chaotic.”
“You have the Israelis striking. You have obviously the United States striking a number of targets,” he said. “We don’t know exactly how bad, but we know that he’s hurt.”
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🚨 LMFAO! JD VANCE destroys reporter asking for classified information
“I HATE to disappoint you but I will not show up here in front of God and everyone else what I said in the classified room partially because I don't want to go to prison!” 😂pic.twitter.com/FHQcuWMVvS
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The question from the reporter comes just a few days after President Trump revealed that he and Vance had philosophical differences when it came to Operation Epic Fury.
Yahoo News reported more on Trump’s comments:
President Donald Trump said his vice president, JD Vance, was “philosophically a little bit different than me” at the outset of the war in Iran even as he dismissed the notion of a disagreement between the two.
Speaking to reporters on Monday at his golf club in Doral, Florida, the president said Vance was “maybe less enthusiastic about going” but insisted that his decision to launch airstrikes in Iran alongside Israel was necessary.
“I felt it was something we had to do,” Trump said. “I didn’t feel we had a choice.”
Heading into a challenging election year, the war in Iran has stoked tension among Republicans, with some expressing reservations about how the operation fits into the “America First,” isolationist-leaning movement the party has embraced during the Trump era.
Watch Trump here:
President Trump said that VP JD Vance was “philosophically a little different from him” but “quite enthusiastic” about launching an attack on Iran.
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