Initiation into former President Donald Trump’s inner circle includes dishonest establishment figures who make you the object of a new hoax.
Amidst the surreal events of the past two weeks, Trump’s choice of Republican Senator JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate in 2024 fell somewhat under the radar, although that did not prevent the emergence of corporate-backed hoaxes about 2021 Vance. “Catwoman without children” he said.
Unwilling to accept the truth and eager to sow discord, establishment figures have repeated Vance’s comments while removing important context.
Thursday on the X social media platform, however, Trump 2024 national press secretary Karoline Leavitt shared a 30-second clip that provided the context and then went viral, thus proving once again that showing far and wide evidence is the most effective antidote to toxic liberals. gaslighting.
The controversy over Vance’s comments began in earnest on Monday, when liberal journalist and former federal prosecutor Ron Filipkowski sent to X a 28-second clip of Vance speaking in 2021 with Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
“We’re effectively run in this country, through the Democrats, through our corporate oligarchy, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable in their own lives and the choices they’ve made, so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too,” Vance said. .
The US Senate candidate then identified Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, along with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, is the current and future leader of the Democratic Party who, because they are. childless, “have no direct stock” in the future of the United States.
“JD Vance says childless women like Kamala Harris are ‘childless cat ladies who are miserable in their own lives,’ and have ‘no direct stake’ in America,” Filipkowski wrote in a post.
That, of course, is not what Vance said. But the unscrupulous Filipkowski delivered.
JD Vance said childless women like Kamala Harris are “childless cat ladies who are miserable in their own lives,” and have “no immediate stake” in America. pic.twitter.com/3DJY3pQTGe
– Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 22, 2024
As one would expect, important women – deprived of context by editing Filipkowski – jumped at the chance to signal their virtue.
According to USA Today, actress Jennifer Aniston took to Instagram to chastise Vance for never saying anything.
“All I can say is… Mr. Vance, I hope your daughter is lucky enough to give birth to a child of her own. I hope they don’t need to turn to IVF as a second option. Because you’re trying to take it from him, too,” Aniston wrote.
Meanwhile, Republican nominee Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Senator John McCain of Arizona, joined the chorus of faux indignation.
“One of my best friends went through several rounds of IVF with no success because she wanted to have a child. It still hurts to talk about it. This ‘childless woman’ comment by JD Vance has made waves with different friends because of its insensitivity and cruelty to women,” McCain said Wednesday.
One of my best friends did rounds and rounds of IVF unsuccessfully wanting to have a child. It still hurts to talk.
This “women without children” comment by JD Vance has made so many waves with so many different friends of mine for it’s insensitivity and cruelty to women. https://t.co/6FfagKwzAV
– Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) July 24, 2024
To summarize, Vance specifically uses the words “misery in his own life and the choices he has made.” In other words, they are clearly referring to a certain type of person who is childless by choice. She even mentions Buttigieg, which proves that she is not just a woman.
Filipkowski then misinterpreted Vance’s words to mean not women who regret their choices but all “women who have not given birth.” Aniston and McCain got away with lying to Filipkowski.
However, on Thursday, Leavitt responded directly to McCain.
Leavitt’s 30-second clip, which had more than 3.8 million views on X as of Friday morning, shows Vance speaking to the conservative Institute for Intercollegiate Studies in 2021. The comments he made there echo comments he made during the interview with Carlson.
“Many people are unable to have children for complex and important reasons,” Vance told attendees of the ISI event.
“The purpose of the comment is not him. It is important to share. There are people like that, who even if they want to have children (can’t have them). Let’s set them aside,” he added a few moments later.
In other words, Vance was specifically excluded from the remarks of the unfortunate and heartbroken women Aniston and McCain called.
“As a new mom, my heart aches for women who can’t give birth. @JDVance’s words were taken out of context and unfairly attacked,” Leavitt wrote in a post.
As a new mother, my heart aches for women who cannot bear children. @JDVance his words were taken out of context and unfairly attacked.
Here are the full comments from 2021:
“Many people are unable to have children for complex and important reasons… there are… https://t.co/Q0yfpQWNfc pic.twitter.com/JOWbiIQ7Qf
— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) July 25, 2024
In the interest of full disclosure, I must say that 15 years ago I also participated in the ISI event. There, I heard former Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes make similar comments to Vance.
At that time, I took offense to what Keyes said. After all, years of pursuing career-related goals have trained me to follow through on childlessness.
Today, however, I know that Keyes was right. And so did Vance.
The ubiquitous modern lie that humans can fill their lives with meaning by pursuing professional advancement rather than raising a family has left me and many others I know from my generation facing a lonely old age.
I made the choice not to have children, so I don’t hold any grudges.
But that gets exactly to Vance’s point: Others have made the same choice and have experienced deep suffering as a result. These people, plagued by leftist indoctrination that fosters anger on the grounds of Marxist ideology and refuses to face the dire consequences of their choices, have no business spreading lies-through-career to a new generation.
So, perhaps, we can stop using hoaxes and start thinking seriously about what really makes life worthwhile.
This article first appeared in The Western Journal.
