Agreement on Deception

They're saying the quiet parts out loud but it doesn't even matter.

In early June, Vice President James David Vance sat for an interview with what PBS described as "''manosphere' comedian Theo Von, who last month joked about snorting drugs off a mixed-race baby and the sexuality of men in the U.S. Navy when he opened for Trump at a military base in Qatar."  Somehow, PBS omitted what should be a rather curious- and is damning remark- made by the Veep. Fortunately, Raw Story reported

Referring to Trump, Vance said, "I mean, think about it. It’s a guy who, not even a year ago nearly took a bullet in the process of campaigning. Went back on the horse the next day."

He continued:

"And if you look, obviously I’m biased, but you look at what we’ve done on the border, you look at what we’ve done with trade, fighting back against a generation of theft of the American Dream, which is what the president’s trade policies are starting to do. I just think you’ve gotta have some respect for him and say, ‘Look, we don’t have to agree on every issue.’ I’m talking about if you’re Elon Musk. We don’t have to agree on every issue. But is this war actually in the interest of the country? I don’t think so."

Raw Story is not The New York Times or the Congressional Record. However

JD Vance said Trump “nearly took a bullet” at his Butler rally.

Why did he say “nearly?” pic.twitter.com/Is0eJ4r0X4

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) July 13, 2025

Vance made his de facto admission in the interview taped on June 6, 2025. Thirty-five days later, President Donald Trump in a Fox News journ- well, person, anyway- would make the same admission.

President @realdonaldtrump was saved in Butler, PA by the Grace of God: “I was really saved by somebody very special…. people that are shooters say it is almost impossible that was a miss." pic.twitter.com/rugD5RODCh

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 11, 2025

Unlike Vance, Trump is quick on his feet and has a little self-awareness. When he conceded "the people that are shooters... say "it's almost impossible that that was a miss," he quickly reversed himself- sort of-and added "and it was a hit but it was a miss."

Now that the Vice President and the President have unmistakably acknowledged that Donald Trump was not hit by a bullet on July 13, 2025, the media will- oh, who's kidding whom? This is analogous to Trump once bragging that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes. His Administration is making it clear that his camp lied when it claimed that he was shot in Butler, Pa Yet, the media persist in taking as gospel the nearly impossible, that Trump's ear was struck by a bullet traveling at 3200 feet per second and in a few days exhibited no scratch or scar. 

And all that without Donald Trump, who always demands to be the center of attention, authorizing release of a medical report. This is a media which at arguably its most important moment, is failing the public miserably.

 

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