JD Vance's Rise and Trump's Teasing Dinner with Murdoch

• 1:11:24Tucker Carlson convinced Trump to pick JD Vance as VP instead of Marco Rubio, warning that deep-state forces would assassinate Trump if Rubio became VP because they knew Rubio would execute their plans.
• 1:12:38JD Vance believes in nationalist and isolationist policies much more deeply and consistently than Trump does, including stricter anti-intervention and harder-line immigration stances.
• 1:13:32Trump picked Vance partly because he thinks Vance is smart and handsome, and is impressed that Vance got into Yale without a rich father—Trump casts people like a TV producer selecting for roles.
• 1:14:22Trump enjoys messing with Vance, as evidenced by a dinner at the White House with Robert Murdoch where Trump asks Murdoch to compare the two.
• 1:14:51At a White House peace dinner in the blue room months after Murdoch's Wall Street Journal story about Trump's Epstein birthday card, Trump asks Murdoch what he thinks of Vance.
• 1:15:08Murdoch tells Vance he has potential to be great, then praises Marco Rubio as brilliant moments later—a backhanded move given Murdoch had worked to prevent Vance from becoming VP.
• 1:15:33Much of the donor class and hawkish voices at Mar-a-Lago, who influence Trump, are anti-Vance, creating pressure on the vice president from Trump's inner circle.
• 1:15:51Despite donor class opposition, Vance remains the most likely presidential nominee after Trump based on reporting, with no sign Rubio is building a challenge and Rubio publicly supporting him.
• 1:16:08Trump is unlikely to make the path to nomination easy for Vance, even if Vance ends up becoming the nominee.

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