Senator JD Vance defended former President Donald Trump’s comments on Saturday Calling Democratic leaders “the enemy within,” said that inflation, a slowdown in military recruitment and the migrant crisis are “a bigger threat than any external threat”.
The Ohio Republican told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that the problems “stem from broken leadership.”
In particular, Vance singled out former Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the catalyst for America’s decline.
Vance told moderator Kristen Welker that under Nancy Pelosi’s long leadership, the United States has become the world’s leading industrial power, second only to China. “This rests squarely on Nancy Pelosi’s shoulders, and if we want to have a more prosperous country, we need to recognize our own leadership as to why we lost our industrial base to China.”
Appeared as Vance leading messenger Those who defend or explain Trump’s views tried to clarify Trump’s words on Saturday, saying, “what [Trump] He said that the biggest threat in our country is not foreign enemies, because we can handle these people. We can solve foreign conflicts.”
Vance’s comments come after weeks of Trump claiming that Democrats are more dangerous to the future of the United States than foreign enemies, as an “enemy within.”
The former president told Fox News earlier this month, “We have an enemy from abroad, and then we have an enemy from within, and I think the enemy from within is more dangerous than China and Russia. and all these countries.”
The former president specifically Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., as these two “enemies from within” separately earlier this month.
“We’ve got China. We’ve got Russia. We’ve got all these countries. If you have a smart president, they’re all manageable. You know, Pelosis is harder. These people are so sick and they’re like, ‘You’re so bad,'” Trump said during a Fox News town hall.