{"id":2360096,"date":"2024-10-26T23:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T03:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-defends-trumps-enemy-from-within-comments-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-26T23:13:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T03:13:15","slug":"vance-defends-trumps-enemy-from-within-comments-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-defends-trumps-enemy-from-within-comments-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance defends Trump\u2019s \u2018enemy from within\u2019 comments &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvance-defends-trumps-enemy-from-within-comments-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2360096&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In \u200ca recent interview on NBC&#8217;s *Meet the Press*, Sen. J.D.\u2064 Vance (R-OH) defended former President\u2062 Donald \u2063Trump&#8217;s\u200d assertion that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-manages-to-trigger-leftists-by-doing-something-millions-of-americans-do-every-year\/\" title=\"Ted Cruz Manages To Trigger Leftists by Doing Something Millions of Americans Do Every Year\">political opponents<\/a> represent an &#8220;enemy from\u2064 within.&#8221; Vance suggested that\u2063 the\u2062 &#8220;broken&#8221; leadership in the U.S. poses a greater \u200bthreat to national\u200c security than foreign adversaries like Russia and China. He\u200c pointed out\u2063 the decline of\u2062 the U.S. as a\u2064 global industrial leader during Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-says-he-doesnt-want-to-pull-a-pelosi\/\" title=\"McCarthy: No Pelosi-like moves for me\">political tenure<\/a>, asserting \u200dthat such \u2064issues are due to leadership failures at home. Vance emphasized the need to recognize\u200b internal political challenges as significant threats to the nation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Vance defends Trump&rsquo;s &lsquo;enemy from within&rsquo; comments<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1845961\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>As former President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> has repeated his &ldquo;enemy from within&rdquo; line on the campaign trail to refer to political opponents, his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), came to his defense, saying that &ldquo;broken&rdquo; leadership in the United States is worse than any foreign adversary to the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Speaking on NBC&rsquo;s <em>Meet the Press<\/em>, Vance was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/video\/jd-vance-democratic-opponents-pose-bigger-threat-than-russia-and-china-222772293910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"asked\">asked<\/a> whether he thought the political opponents Trump has referred to in his comment, specifically Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/adam-schiff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Adam Schiff<\/a> (D-CA) and Speaker Emerita <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nancy-pelosi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-CA), are &ldquo;more dangerous&rdquo; than foreign adversaries such as Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, I think what Donald Trump said is that those folks pose a greater threat to [the] United States&rsquo;s peace and security because America is strong enough to stand up to any foreign adversary,&rdquo; Vance said, before being pressed on whether he thought certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joy-rhetoric-is-an-orwellian-attempt-to-hide-democrats-hatred\/\" title=\"\u2018Joy\u2019 Rhetoric Is An Orwellian Attempt To Hide Democrats&#039; Hatred\">political opponents &#038;ldquo<\/a>;pose a much larger threat&rdquo; than Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What he said &mdash; and I do agree with this &mdash; what he said is that the biggest threat we have in our country, it&rsquo;s not a foreign adversary because we can handle these guys. &hellip; Look, under Nancy Pelosi&rsquo;s long life in public leadership, the United States has gone from the preeminent industrial power in the world to second next to China. That fundamentally belongs on Nancy Pelosi&rsquo;s shoulders. And if we&rsquo;re going to have a more prosperous country, we&rsquo;ve got to recognize that our own leadership is why we lost our industrial base to China. Our own leadership is failing to lead this country into peace and prosperity,&rdquo; Vance said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump faced criticism after using the line in a Fox News interview with Maria Bartiromo earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>In that interview, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/trump-democrats-enemies-within-rcna175628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a>, &ldquo;We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He also said that &ldquo;it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump also recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3199008\/trump-suggests-enemy-from-within-responsible-israel-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"claimed\">claimed<\/a>, without evidence, that an &ldquo;enemy from within&rdquo; leaked highly classified U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">intelligence documents involving&#038;nbsp<\/a>;Israel. The FBI is investigating that incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1845961\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1845961\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vance supports Trump\u2019s \u2018enemy from within\u2019 remarks, stating U.S. leadership issues are a greater threat than foreign adversaries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3359,"featured_media":2360098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JD-Vance-2.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[43505,32171,3634,15469],"class_list":["post-2360096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-enemy-from-within","tag-political-commentary","tag-trump","tag-vance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JD-Vance-2.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}