Vice President JD Vance calls out Sen. Lindsey Graham on live TV
Vice President JD Vance named Senator Lindsey Graham on The View, saying "I'd caution Lindsey Graham" and publicly distancing himself from Graham's stance on the U.S.-Iran agreement. Vance defended the pact, asserting that Iran will not receive funds unless it meets its obligations and citing a memorandum of understanding signed by President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. The exchange highlighted a clear split within Republican foreign-policy ranks over terms that critics say grant Iran access to roughly $300 billion in reconstruction funds. The confrontation matters because it signals the vice president is staking out control of the administration's messaging and pushing back at hardline senators ahead of Congress reviewing the deal.
Lindsey Graham puts the Iran deal squarely on the shoulders of JD Vance, possibly positioning Vance to become the subject of a stab-in-the-back myth to excuse Trump’s foreign policy failure:
Leah McElrath71The White House is also making Vance the face of the deal in the eyes of the public:
K🤦♀️𝙑14*See Last line. Suddenly Congress is trying to be relevant again? A day late and billions short aren’t they?
dontlistentoanyone.bsky.social11lindsey graham is up for reelection, this year, in south carolina. he is trying stake out a position that is against the war, but not anti-trump. in other words, he is revealing his weakness.
gp2k.tikimail.org10It's weird Graham thinks Congress needs to sign the deal but doesn't need to sign anything to start the war or pay for the war
kelden.bsky.social10If it were a great agreement, the President would crawl over broken glass to sign it. No way he’d let someone else take the credit. That’s all I need to know about how good of a deal this is.
A. Nobody6Congress needs to approve something?
Billy Juggernaut Antifa4It’s also interesting that he’s now concerned about what the law is. He seems to use laws as either necessary, or to be ignored, depending on his desired outcome.
Along for the ride 🌮🐷3The "under our law" part makes my eyes roll.
steve-degenaro.bsky.social3G7 summit begins today. Trump announces agreement with Iran that will be “signed” Friday. The Summit ends Wednesday. Wanna bet the agreement is called off by Thursday morning?
EASTMAN2You can’t put lipstick on a pig, but you can put eyeliner on a Vice President.
Paul A.2Can we get an agreement that a negotiated deal that leads to an agreement to negotiate a deal isn't much of a deal?
🦋 B34RS GYRL 💙2If this is true, notice how Trump hasn't referred to Vance recently during these negotiations not 1 single time? There's definitely some rivalry going on between POTUS and VEEP.
Fighting 502Is Lyndsey Graham todays "Littlefinger" ?
JD Vance is a product of Peter Thiel, who is obsessed with Carl Schmitt. Schmitt argued that a dictator seizes power through a "state of exception"—when the rules are suspended due to some "emergency." "Sovereign is he who decides on the exception." Vance is vastly more dangerous than Trump.
Gil Durán48Thielbilly Elegy: How Peter Thiel Created JD Vance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRWF...
Piet Demimondrian3As clumsily prefigured by George Lucas in Star Wars prequels.
All Saints Dae2It’s hard to say! Despite his dopey presentation he did go to law school. He would understand the Lawfare strategy if not the tactical approaches to getting that done. But from a public perception perspective he’s fucking creamed corn. He wouldn’t last an hour
asastryker.bsky.social2Been saying this to friends and family for a few years. Lotta blank stares. Doubt we’ll even have a staged election. The real fun to start soon.
JD Vance confirmed that we're planning to give Iran $300 billion to end this war — far more than Obama's deal was ever going to give them
jbshakerman.bsky.social3I bet Kushner and the Trump family will get a big chunk of the $300b Iranian building boom American taxpayers are financing to open the Straits that Iran closed after the US-Israeli attack that US taxpayers also paid for. US oligarchs and Iran win. US prestige and taxpayers lose. Some Golden Age.
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Geoffrey Hoytsman2The whole cost of this is definitely going to near half a trillion. Easily if you count all the unfrozen accounts. Which is not correct, but bullshit for bullshit.
Jim in Oregon🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷🇺🇦🇪🇺2Probably to be paid for by further cuts in benefits that we all worked for. After tacking on a few trillionaire tax cuts
Thom2So the Obama deal and america spent billions, lost at least 13 service members and ruined the international oil market.
Cavalier Texan2"The Art of the Deal"...what a fncking moron.
bigbux.bsky.social2It’s not even in the same ballpark. 100% Surrender
Oh? This merits an 👀 emoji re JD: “I believe it is imperative that the architect of the deal, Vice President Vance and his negotiating partners, be part of the process in presenting the final deal to Congress.”
Jake Lahut13Did the president have a constitutional obligation to go through Congress to declare war on Iran? Well nvm, because that buck has been passed to the veep and Senate Republicans — who never liked him to begin with — are gonna maybe hold his feet to the fire on this one
Aaron Woofter7Wait Congress has to vote on a peace deal for a war it never approved?
Habeas Jocus7Very shrewd to send the expert at eating shit to eat world historic levels of shit.
Jim Emmerling6Is that a bus I see?
Flaming pile of Blanches malfeasance3"Time will tell." Translation: "I have no idea what will happen next."
Eliza Jayne3So . . . Congress votes on a memorandum but NOT a war? Graham can f all the way off.
🖤 J. H. White2Next year Sen Annie Andrews Will helping the goid citizens of SC.
Mrs W2Good luck with that, Mr. Graham
Vance: "I'd caution Lindsey Graham and anybody else not to believe the hardliner propaganda in Iran, but to believe what's actually in the agreement…Iran doesn't get a dime of money unless they perform their obligations."
spanieldors.bsky.social18So you’re saying that you’re giving Iran money as part of the deal?
Whatthehell13Hmmm. That sounds like a familiar arrangement. Just a lot more dimes.
curlyjefferson613.bsky.social12What are the chances Iran is gonna say “we aren’t performing until we get our money” ?
Senator Zeitgeist7I’m old enough to recall how “incredibly insane it was that USA was “giving” hundreds of millions to Iran.” *of their own money
Rita 🌻6Billions of dollars, 13 lost American military, 100 dead Iran children and a loss of multiple bases and weapons to get us right back to where we were with Obama’s Iran deal, Vance isn’t fooling anyone because he is an admitted liar.
SD5So now giving Iran cash is ok apparently.
Todd5Money for Medicaid and SNAP - slashed, money for scientific research - cut, money for education- diminished. But we have $300 billion dollars to give Iran? That’s $1,875 for every US taxpayer.
beaker66.bsky.social4The “agreement” which is nothing more than another understanding to continue talking and which has still not been publicly released.
El condor pasa4lol pallets of money after dropping billions for the war.
Andy 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽3Really knucklehead?! Where are the monitors? What a choad!
Carl Mucha3I've seen more details in a fantasy football trade.
Auburn Blake2Which would imply they have made the 'agreement' available for people to read and analyze. True? Nah...
PanPizza2I just continue to think it’s funny that trump’s heir apparent is a mascara wearing, swamp dwelling coward with 0/10 masculinity
MikahMiriam2Believe our hardliner propaganda, not theirs.
jasonroberts3114.bsky.social2I understand the concept of “enshitification” of life in general, but it’s impressive that the US regime has taken this to geostrategic levels by just making *everything* worse.
Rock Knowledge (and other assorted info)2When Trump said there would be a complete and unconditional surrender I didn't realize at the time that he was talking about the US.
