Trump orders Vance to focus on "corruption" in Democrat-run areas, not Iran
2's focus — and directing him to go after Democrats the president labeled as "CORRUPT AND EVIL." Oil prices surged, and stocks sank after Trump's post reinjected a note of uncertainty into a market that was acting like the Iran war was all but over.
Key points
- The announcement on social media deepened questions about what the president’s plan is to end the war.
- Vance has chaired Trump's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud since the president created it via executive order earlier this year.
- Between the lines: Vance offered a surprisingly candid assessment of the midterm shellacking, writing in an X post last week that "[t]he reason we lost is the war." He continued: "If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so.
He said that he had asked Vance to "focus his complete and total attention" on so-called "Corruption and Crime" in Democrat-run cities and states, naming Minnesota, California and Illinois.
Additional details
- Agree or disagree, that's at least honest." "But everyone knows why we lost." What we're watching: Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his G7 counterparts in Paris on Tuesday, where he said Trump had considered resuming the war or cutting a deal but instead settled on strangling the Iranian regime, Axios previously reported.
- cities, Trump has repeatedly framed blue areas as hotbeds of crime and corruption, even when the stats haven't necessarily backed up those arguments.
- Go deeper: Trump: New Iran attacks "quite unlikely".
- Also on Truth Social Thursday, he threatened new tariffs on Mexico and criticized GOP senators for failing to pass the Save America ACT — adding that failure to do so was "devastating" for Republicans during the midterms.
- Vance was a skeptical voice in Trump's inner circle about the war, Ravid reported, and led U.S.
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