Wednesday July 1st, 2026
My Dear America:
There are plenty of Slippery Characters in the Administration of Donald Trump. There is no doubt about that. Certainly Donald Trump, himself is an extremely slippery figure himself and clearly he refuses to be held down to one position on any political subject. Indeed Trump is clearly a master of distraction but based on what I have seen in the past week Trump has some very serious competition when it comes to slippery political behavior from his Vice President.
I watched JD Vance on two relatively left leaning Television programs during the past week and I have to give this guy credit where credit is due. On both "Real Time with Bill Maher" and on "The View" JD was like Daniel in the Lion's Den but the slippery bugger danced through both those programs like a master of slippery behavior.
Although Vance was asked some very important and relevant questions by Bill Maher and the girls from the View that certainly didn't mean that he was required to answer those questions truthfully or even to answer them at all.
I have watched politicians interviewed on Television for many years but I don't really believe I have ever seen someone as skilled as Vance when it came to dodging questions that he didn't want to answer or simply changing whatever he was asked into talking about a subject that he did want to talk about.
This son of a gun was good. i'll give him that
I have often wondered what it was that convinced Donald Trump to offer the Vice Presidency to JD Vance. I don't wonder about that anymore.
JD has some serious skills and is clearly smart as hell. He proved that by charming his way into not only becoming a best selling Author but by getting himself befriended by some very influential Tech Giants who were loaded with money and helped JD to get on the Rich Track. JD's Rich backers helped him to ease himself from Author to Hedge Fund Manager to Senator all in a very short space of time.
When Donald Trump chose JD Vance to be his Vice Presidential Running Mate in 2024 it appeared to many, including me, to be a very odd and hard to fathom choice as is the case with many things that Donald Trump Does. Looking back on it, however, it was clearly a brilliant choice.
Vance had started out during the time that he was hawking his book as a clean shaven newbie who had nothing but scathing criticism of Donald Trump. He identified Donald Trump as an "American Hitler". Apparently at that point in time Vance had not developed the skill of lying and Kissing Trump's Ass that he would in time become super skilled at.
These days Vance seems focused on selling his new book, "Communion" in which he apparently describes his progression from Hillbilly Baptist to Catholic and in the process has felt as though it was OK for him to instruct Pope Leo on the ways of the world.
Pretty Audacious, I think.
Although we don't know for sure what is going on in the White House with JD Vance and Donald Trump we do know that JD was probably the only one of the President's advisors brave enough to risk Donald Trump's Wrath by advising Trump not to attack Iran.
Trump's reaction to Vance's rather sensible advice was to put Vance in charge of the next to impossible task of negotiating a peace deal with the Iranians Who never Trusted America to begin with and after getting the shaft by America twice certainly don't trust us now.
Speaking of Trust, JD Vance Cannot be trusted. I will never forget a Rachel Maddow Program where she showed some videos in which one of JD' buddies and Mentors was promoting the value of America becoming a Dictatorship.
And Furthermore JD Vance has had the gall to state that if Watergate happened today that it would be nothing but a one day story in the media. The enraging fact to me is that he is probably right. The way one commentator put it is that comparing Watergate to the extreme corruption of the Trump Administration is like comparing the crimes of Jaywalking to that of a Serial Killer. By the way if anyone is interested in learning a lot more about Watergate My book, "Letters To A Lost Nation: A Watergate Chronicle" is still available through Amazon in Paperback or E Book Editions
Jesus, And this guy, JD Vance is our Vice President and may one day become our President.
Let's hope not.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
