JD Vance
The Public Record
50th Vice President of the United States in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Ohio.
We're not at war with Iran. We're at war with Iran's nuclear program...The operation was really extraordinary.
Enriching uranium up to the point of a nuclear weapon — that was what the president put a stop to last night.
What we know is they no longer have the capacity to turn that stockpile of highly enriched uranium to weapons-grade uranium, and that was really the goal here.
And I think what the Ninth Circuit said very clearly is when the president makes a determination, you’ve got to send in certain federal officials to protect people.
That determination was legitimate, and the president’s going to do it again if he has to, but hopefully it won’t be necessary.
If you enforce your own laws and if you protect federal law enforcement, we're not going to send in the National Guard because it's unnecessary.
I was hoping José Padilla would be here to ask a question. But, unfortunately, I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn’t the theater, and that’s all it is.
Of course, people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy.
That decision ultimately belongs to the president. But I believe the president has earned some trust on this issue.
I can assure you that [the president] is only interested in using the American military to accomplish American people's goals.
I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran needed to enrich uranium well above the threshold for civilian use.





