Heart & Soul Conversation # 21……The Story Behind the Story

Vice President J.D. Vance was taken to task by the conservative National Review's Andrew McCarthy for his constant running to X to post disingenuous attacks on opponents of the Donald Trump administration's immigration policies.

In a column posted Saturday morning, the legal analyst claimed the VP, a Yale Law School graduate, knows fully well the administration is denying immigrants their right to due process, and that Vance is making his claims more as a performance for MAGA devotees.

Labeling Donald Trump's second-in-command as "infuriating," he added the VP is "too smart not to know that the nonsense he spouts is nonsense. Well-framed nonsense, to be sure."

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He then added, "Vice President Vance issued one of his claptrap-laden diatribes on social media Wednesday, slamming 'the media and the far left' who are 'weeping over the lack of due process' in the Trump administration’s illegal deportations of people it alleges — probably correctly in most instances — are members of criminal gangs."

Using that as a springboard, he noted that Trump's goal is to "illustrate that he has amassed uncheckable power," and for Vance that's "the point of the vice president’s post: Due process is for whiners, and if you’re 'weeping' over its sudden death, you’re the problem."

"Adopting the habit of Trump officials of making up their own facts as well as their own law, Vance argues that all the administration is doing is returning an illegal alien to his home country," he accused. "This is so mendacious it’s hard to decide where to begin — even accepting for argument’s sake Vance’s blithe claim that Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 member, which, again, Trump officials chant as a mantra but no one has actually proved."

"He says we who want the law enforced don’t have a plan for deporting 20 million people — and that’s true, for there is no such four-year plan; there’s just 'do the best you can to materially reduce the illegal population, get on a trajectory for bigger reductions over time, and then manage illegal immigration like we manage other ordinary crime.'" he wrote before pointing out, "But to flip it around, Vice President Vance does not tell us what his plan is for rapidly deporting 20 million people. That’s because such a plan cannot include faithfully executing the law. And he knows it."

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President Donald Trump racked up another "L" in court Tuesday after a federal judge ordered his administration to reinstate Voice of America and several other government-funded news services, restoring their funding and rehiring their staff.