Trump Humiliated as Vance is Kicked Off Live TV - Pondering Politics

[TexasTowelie]

JD Vance was abruptly kicked off his ABC interview, humiliating him and Donald Trump.

[SheltieLover]

1. Good!

[Blue Owl]

2. Go fuck a wet, moldy couch, J.D.

[sop]

3. Uncanny resemblance...

[paleotn]

12. His real father.

JD...I am your father. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

14. Oh My GOD!

You"re RIGHT!

[MagaSmash]

4. THAT'S how you do it.

And Vance can't cry; or his Mascara will run.

[markodochartaigh]

5. I like his videos.

One thing I differ with him on is calling Trump "president". I think that when you screw up a big part of changing your behavior so that you don't keep screwing up is to admit your mistakes.
Sure, Trump was not elected by a majority of the voters, one third couldn't even be bothered to vote. And sure, the only reason Trump was able to get more votes than Harris was because of Republicans' campaigns of disenfranchisement and gerrymandering.
But our country still screwed up. Monumentally. We didn't even choose a competent, intelligent, and engaged Strong Leader. We chose a bargain-basement buffoon, a callous kkklown, an ally of authoritarians.
A kkkartoon kkkarachter like Trump should not have been able to get more than ten percent of the vote. I think that the US must own our mistake. History will not forget that Trump was our president, history should also remember that we admitted our shame and worked hard to set it right.

[czarjak]

7. 2Late4That

[czarjak]

6. 'Bout time!

[rampartd]

8. stephanopolis asked a question

i might have asked a different question but it does not matter

the question was merely a launching pad for several paragraphs of vance's canned nonsense, which vance was allowed to spew until time for a commercial break.

[kacekwl]

9. If every broadcaster did that you would never

hear anything from Republicans. Same with congressional hearings. You don't answer the question say by by.

[speak easy]

10. Trump is Never humiliated. That would require too much self reflection.

He gets angry and blames everybody but himself. The worse the situation, the more angry he is. You have only to look at his tweets.

[Gimpyknee]

11. So true.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. MaddowBlog-Pressed on Tom Homan controversy, JD Vance and Pam Bondi struggle to answer

The attorney general and the vice president confronted straightforward questions about the scandal surrounding the border czar. Both Republicans struggled.

The White House has had nearly a month to come up with some talking points on Tom Homan’s cash-in-a-Cava-bag scandal.

The latest comments from JD Vance and Pam Bondi suggested that Team Trump still hasn’t come up with much of a defense. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-10-13T18:12:17.543Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/tom-homan-cash-jd-vance-pam-bondi-struggle-answer-rcna237316

It’s been nearly a month since the public first learned about the bribery controversy surrounding White House border czar Tom Homan, which means administration officials have had plenty of time to come up with answers to obvious questions and talking points related to the burgeoning scandal. They don’t appear to have come up with much......

On Sunday, another prominent member of Team Trump struggled just as much. Politico reported:

Vice President JD Vance sparred Sunday with George Stephanopoulos in a discussion when the ABC host asked about White House border czar Tom Homan. The segment on ‘This Week’ ended with Stephanopoulos saying ‘You did not answer the question’ even as Vance tried one final time to rebut him.

....The matter was under investigation, right up until Trump returned to the White House, at which point the probe stalled. Last month, the case was closed altogether......

With this in mind, Stephanopoulos asked the vice president a reasonable question: Did Homan keep the money, or did he give it back?

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-10-12T15:33:17.280Z

......The attorney general and the vice president have refused to answer that question, which only makes the broader controversy that much more provocative.

For what it’s worth, the Trump administration could simply release the FBI recording of the undercover agents’ interaction with Homan, which would presumably help clear things up, but the folks who claim to be the “most transparent” officials in the history of the planet have so far kept the tapes under wraps.

As regular readers know, “Release the Epstein files” has been a common mantra for quite a while. “Release the Homan tapes” is just getting started. Watch this space.