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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Will JD Vance run for president in 2028? VP pressed on potential White House bid
WASHINGTON – Vice President JD Vance said it's "way too early" to consider the 2028 election as political observers speculate about whether he'll launch a White House bid. Questions have swirled after President Donald Trump suggested to reporters Aug. 5 that Vance was 'most likely' the heir to the MAGA movement. Though Trump hasn't formally endorsed a GOP successor, he acknowledged that Vance would 'probably be favored at this point.' Trump also said Secretary of State Marco Rubio is 'somebody that maybe would get together with JD in some form.' Vance said on Fox News' 'Sunday Morning Futures' that he saw Rubio a month ago and both of them just 'laughed at the whole thing.' 'Neither one of us are focused on politics. We're focused on actually doing a good job for the American people,' Vance said. 'If we do a good job, number one, that's the reward in and of itself," Vance added. "That all have made a big difference in the lives of our country for the last six months and the next three and a half years. But if we do a good job, the politics will take care of itself.' Vance said it's premature to speak of the political future. 'It's frankly way too early to be thinking about 2026,' he said, referencing next year's midterm elections. 'It's certainly way too early to be thinking about 2028.' Rubio, who ran for president in 2016, told Fox News host Lara Trump in a July interview he thinks Vance would make a strong nominee for Republicans in 2028. 'I think he's doing a great job as vice president. He's a close friend, and I hope he intends to do it,' Rubio said. As for his own future political aspirations, Rubio said, 'I feel honestly – you never know what the future holds; you never rule things out or anything, because you just don't know. Things change very quickly.' Contributing: Zac Anderson This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Will JD Vance run in 2028? VP weighs in after Trump comments
USA Today
3 days ago
- Politics
- USA Today
Will JD Vance run for president in 2028? VP pressed on potential White House bid
WASHINGTON - Vice President JD Vance said it's "way too early" to consider the 2028 election as political observers speculate about whether he'll launch a White House bid. The conversations comes after President Donald Trump suggested Vance was 'most likely' the heir to the MAGA movement to reporters on Aug. 5. Though Trump hasn't formally endorsed a GOP successor, he acknowledged that Vance would 'probably be favored at this point.' Trump also said Secretary of State Marco Rubio is 'somebody that maybe would get together with JD in some form.' Vance said on Fox News' 'Sunday Morning Futures' that he saw Rubio a month ago and both of them just 'laughed at the whole thing.' 'Neither one of us are focused on politics. We're focused on actually doing a good job for the American people,' Vance said. 'If we do a good job, number one, that's the reward in and of itself," Vance added. "That all have made a big difference in the lives of our country for the last six months and the next three and a half years. But if we do a good job, the politics will take care of itself.' Vance also said that it's 'way too early to be thinking about the political future.' 'It's frankly way too early to be thinking about 2026,' he said, referencing next year's midterm elections. 'It's certainly way too early to be thinking about 2028.' Rubio, who ran for president in 2016, told Fox News host Lara Trump in a July interview that he thinks Vance would make a strong nominee for Republicans in 2028. 'I think he's doing a great job as vice president. He's a close friend, and I hope he intends to do it,' Rubio said. As for his own future political aspirations, Rubio said, 'I feel honestly – you never know what the future holds; you never rule things out or anything, because you just don't know. Things change very quickly.' Contributing: Zac Anderson, USA TODAY
New York Post
4 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
JD Vance: ‘You are going to see a lot of people get indicted' over Russiagate
Vice President JD Vance said in an interview Sunday that 'a lot of people' are about to get indicted over the Obama administration's machinations on so-called Russiagate. Without divulging specific names of who will get charged, Vance pointed to recent disclosures from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as ironclad evidence that there had been 'an aggressive violation of the law' revolving around Russiagate. 'I absolutely want to see indictments,' Vance told Fox News' 'Sunday Morning Futures' in a pre-taped interview. 'Of course, you've got to have the law follow the facts here.' Advertisement 'You don't just indict people to indict people. You indict people because they broke the law,' he went on. 'If you look at what Tulsi and Kash Patel have revealed in the last couple of weeks, I don't know how anybody can look at that and say there was an aggressive violation of the law.' 4 Vice President JD Vance called for people to get indicted over Russiagate. Getty Images 'I absolutely think they broke the law. And you're going to see a lot of people get indicted for that,' he later added. Advertisement Last month, Gabbard began unveiling a tranche of documents about the Obama administration's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Among the disclosures was the declassification of a 2020 House Intelligence Committee report crafted by Republicans that found there was insufficient evidence that Russia favored President Trump in 2016. Gabbard also divulged material showcasing that top intelligence bosses had evidence that Russia did not hack 2016 voting systems in a way that allowed them to change the election outcome. 'What they basically did is they defrauded the American people in order to take Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign talking points and turn them into intelligence,' Vance said, accusing the Obama-era intelligence apparatus of 'lying about what the intel said.' Advertisement 4 Vice President JD Vance accused the Obama-era intelligence community of helping the Clinton campaign. James Messerschmidt 'They would take something that supported a Hillary Clinton campaign talking point, and they would overemphasize it and exaggerate it,' the vice president continued. 'They took anything that actually contradicted that narrative, and they buried it deep.' Following the revelations from Gabbard, the Justice Department formed a 'strike force' to begin assessing whether there were any criminal violations in what had been uncovered. Last week, US Attorney General Pam Bondi moved to open a grand jury to probe Obama administration officials. Grand juries are used to determine whether or not to hand down indictments. Advertisement 4 The vice president said the Russiagate debacle bogged President Trump down during his first term. NATHAN HOWARD/POOL/EPA/Shutterstock Vance broadly argued that 'they actually laundered Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign talking points through the American intelligence services.' He did not specify names. Former CIA director John Brennan and former DNI James Clapper have hit back at Gabbard, pointing to a 2020 bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report, which noted the panel 'heard consistently that analysts were under no politically motivated pressure to reach specific conclusions.' Clapper and Brennan also inked an op-ed insisting that the 2017 Intelligence Community report that was at the center of Gabbard's ire never described 'collusion' between Trump. They also stood by their claims that the Kremlin preferred him in the 2016 election. 4 President Trump is set to meet with Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin next week. Getty Images A spokesperson for former President Barack Obama issued a rare statement rebuffing Gabbard. 'The bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction,' spokesperson Patrick Rodenbush said last month. 'Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes.'
Sky News AU
21-07-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Bombshell claims link Obama-era cabal to ‘treasonous conspiracy' against Trump
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has made bombshell claims linking an Obama-era cabal targeting US President Donald Trump. Gabbard described 'striking' findings from declassified documents last Friday, which showed evidence linking the Obama-era cabal to the Russia collusion probe. According to Gabbard, the 'overwhelming evidence' found in the documents proved Obama 'directed' the 'treasonous conspiracy' against Trump. The DNI's comments came during an appearance on Fox News' 'Sunday Morning Futures' with host Maria Bartiromo. 'Over 100 documents that we released on Friday really detail and provide evidence of how this treasonous conspiracy was directed by President Obama just weeks before he was due to leave office, after President Trump had already gotten elected,' Gabbard said. 'This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is an issue that is so serious it should concern every single American because it has to do with the integrity of our democratic republic.' According to Gabbard, the declassified documents revealed before the 2016 election, there was no evidence to prove that Russia altered the vote count.
New York Post
20-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Tulsi Gabbard ‘cannot fathom' how Durham, Mueller missed evidence of ‘years-long coup' against Trump
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard (DNI) was baffled by how special counsels run by Robert Mueller and John Durham missed evidence of what she alleged was a 'years-long coup against President Trump.' On Friday, Gabbard's team made public over 100 pages of memos, emails, and other material that revealed the Obama administration had quietly concluded Russia didn't impact the 2016 election's vote totals via cyberattacks. Gabbard has cited those documents as evidence of a 'treasonous conspiracy' by the Obama administration to amplify 'manufactured intelligence that claims that Russia had helped' Trump win the election and called for former officials to be prosecuted. 'I really cannot fathom [it],' Gabbard told Fox News' 'Sunday Morning Futures' about why Durham and Mueller didn't highlight the evidence her team found. 'There is no rational or logical explanation for why they failed.' 'The only logical conclusion that I can draw in this … is that there was direct intent to cover up the truth about what occurred and who was responsible and the broad network of how this seditious conspiracy was concocted and who exactly was responsible for carrying it out.' 4 Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released documents last week that shed new light on Russiagate. FOX NEWS 4 John Durham had eviscerated the FBI's handling of its Russia probe into the 2016 Trump campaign. AP The DNI refrained from explicitly accusing either Durham or Mueller of having the 'intent to cover up the truth.' Among the stark findings Gabbard's team unearthed after months of investigation was a Sept. 12, 2016, Intelligence Community Assessment that 'foreign adversaries do not have and will probably not obtain the capabilities to successfully execute widespread and undetected cyber attacks' on election systems. Intelligence officials at the time accused Russia of setting up troll farms and hacking the Democratic National Committee email servers and leaking information to the public. Russian cyber intruders also allegedly infiltrated the Republican National Committee but reportedly refrained from leaking that information. Through the 2016 campaign and much of his first administration, a steady stream of leaks regarding Russiagate haunted Trump and led to the Mueller investigation, which concluded the Russians meddled in the 2016 election via propaganda and other means in a 'sweeping and systemic fashion.' 4 Robert Mueller ultimately found insufficient evidence that members of the 2016 Trump campaign were involved in a grand conspiracy revolving around Russia. Getty Images The Mueller probe ultimately found insufficient evidence that any member of the 2016 Trump campaign had been 'taking part in a criminal conspiracy' revolving around Russia. Towards the end of his first term, former US Attorney General Bill Barr appointed Durham to examine the origins of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation — the bureau's probe of links between Russia and the 2016 campaign — as well as the Mueller inquiry. Durham wrapped up that review in 2023, which tore into the bureau's handling of the probe into Trump. 'I don't know what excuse there is for those who supposedly investigated this previously, whether it was Durham or others, that they were not able to put together the dots and ultimately show the truth to the American people,' the DNI added at another point. Gabbard stressed that Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel will have to gather the evidence and decide whether to press charges. Still, she vowed to do 'all that I can' to ensure accountability and argued in favor of prosecuting former intelligence officials involved. 'There must be indictments of those responsible, no matter how powerful they are and were at that time, no matter who was involved in creating this treasonous conspiracy against the American people. They all must be held accountable,' Gabbard declared. 4 Tulsi Gabbard has teased that more information on Russiagate is coming. FOX NEWS 'For the American people to have any sense of trust in the integrity of our democratic republic, accountability, action, prosecution, [and] indictments for those who are responsible for trying to steal our democracy is essential for us to make sure that this never happens to our country again,' she later added. The DNI, who oversees coordination between 18 intelligence agencies, teased that more information will be coming next week and that some whistleblowers are stepping forward because they are 'disgusted by what happened.' 'The effect of what President Obama and his senior national security team did was subvert the will of the American people, undermining our democratic republic, and enacting what would be essentially a years-long coup against President Trump,' Gabbard added. Gabbard's public disclosures about the intelligence community's Russiagate machinations come weeks after speculation that there had been daylight between her and Trump over his decision to bomb Iran. The DNI has historically been dovish on foreign policy and skeptical of elements of the intelligence community. Earlier this year, she testified that 'the IC [intelligence community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon.' She later argued that her words had been misconstrued by the media and pointed to another portion of her testimony where she warned about Iran's uranium enrichment levels. Trump has been eager to revisit the Russiagate drama and had named Ed Martin to serve as the director of a Weaponization Working Group to tackle it and other similar matters. Critics have argued that Gabbard has been trying to confuse the public by focusing on evidence that Russia didn't hack the 2016 election and glossing over evidence that the Kremlin tried to meddle in the election via other means, such as internet troll farms. 'What you saw from the DNI was not just a lie but a very dangerous lie,' Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, fumed to CBS News' 'Face the Nation' Sunday. 'The Senate committee then led by Marco Rubio found unanimously that Russia meddled in the election to try to assist Donald Trump,' he added. 'What Tulsi is doing is a sleight of hand.'
