Malingn Influence Almost Beyond Human Comprehension

Democrat Rafael Warnock of Georgia is a great Senator but he's wrong about the last thing he says here:

Raphael Warnock: “JD Vance is perhaps the most craven politician in the American landscape. Here’s a man who called Donald Trump America’s Hitler. He’s just deeply craven. It’s hard to know really what his moral center is. In some ways he’s scarier than Donald Trump” pic.twitter.com/ehLHnsdOqo

— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) June 14, 2026

It's hard to determine who the most craven politician is in the American landscape because Vance has a lot of competition in that area. However, the Vice President is not scarier than Donald Trump- and Vance himself is evidence of that.

As noted here, in 2016 J.D. Vance "wrote to his former law school roommate Josh McLaurin, 'I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a**hole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?'"   On two consecutive nights in March of 2016, DonaldTrump insulted the wife of Senator Ted Cruz. On the second occasion, Trump "retweeted a post showing a side by side image of Heidi Cruz and Trump's wife, Melania. Text on the picture read. 'No need to spill the beans.' The images ae worth a thousand words.'" (The photo was of Heidi appearing extremely unpleasant.) In that same campaign, candidate Trump called rival Marco Rubio, then a Florida senator, "Little Marco", "Mr. Meltdown", and "lightweight choker".

Now, all three are so up Donald Trump's rear end that only their ankles are visible. Nor has the President lost his touch.

Stephen A Smith on CNN: "The president is certainly an upgrade from what we were seeing from Joe Biden in terms of his alertness and what have you" pic.twitter.com/L9yaQKqPf0

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 14, 2026

This was nothing compared to the embrace the likes of Rubio, Cruz, and Vance have given Donald. The response from "Stephen A" to CNN's Kasie Hunt included some criticism of Trump. After Smith, a well-known New York Knicks fan, criticized Trump for having attended the third game of the NBA championship series between the Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs, Trump responded on Untruth Social with

Stephen A. Smith is an arrogant fool, a low IQ individual. In other words, he’s 'dumb as a rock,' and totally unqualified to ever think of running for high political office, or even low political office, for that matter! He’d get annihilated in a debate by the most incompetent of politicians. Joe Biden’s now 'fabled' performance would look great by comparison to anything that this loudmouth huckster has to offer, which isn’t much! Within a few weeks, they’d laugh him out of politics!!!"

And then Smith decided he could pacify Trump by claiming "the President is certainly an upgrade from what we were seeing from Joe Biden in terms of his alertness and what have you". Trump evidently falls asleep periodically during official events, which speaks of his alertness. We would know more about the President's health, were any medical records released. They have not been, and that's by design. 

One wonders: how would SAS have responded had any other public official referred to him as "an arrogant fool, a low IQ individual," and "dumb as a rock"?  Any one with any self-respect- and Smith has more self-respect than almost anyone alive- would have condemned the individual who assailed him.

But this was Donald Trump rudely and obnoxiously condemning an individual. And Smith did what so many others have done when falsely denounced by Donald J. Trump- fold. No other public official has so often humiliated others and profited by it. Trump gets away with it, as no one else has, can, or will. His sway over people, almost demonic, is incomparable. 

And that is why Senator/Reverend Warnock is wrong, uncharacteristically, when he suggests that anyone is scarier than Donald J. Trump.

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