Vance Lashes Out At GOP Senator Who Came Out Against Trump Nominee
On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance delivered a rare public rebuke of former Republican leader Mitch McConnell for his refusal to support a key Pentagon nominee, unleashing a barrage of MAGA-fueled criticism.
Shortly after Elbridge Colby was selected by President Donald Trump to be the top policy strategist at the Defense Department, McConnell became the only Republican to vote against him, sparking the verbal spat.
In a statement that swiftly went viral on social media, McConnell stated, “America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline.”
In an Xpost, Vance wrote, “Mitch’s vote today—like so much of the last few years of his career—is one of the great acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen.”
The vice president was joined by a chorus of conservatives who were tired of McConnell’s conflict with and treatment of the president.
Nate Morris, a businessman from Kentucky, wrote on X, “Elbridge Colby is one of the best foreign policy thinkers in the GOP, and it’s pitiful to watch Mitch McConnell continue to stand with Democrats to sabotage President Trump.” “For this reason, whoever takes Mitch’s place in the Senate must be a complete departure from him—it’s time for a change!”
In response to Vance’s post, Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) said, “I’m glad things are changing.”
Meanwhile, in an X post directed at its followers, Breitbart News called McConnell “China-linked Senator Mitch McConnell.” Conservative David Hardin declared, “MITCH MCCONNELL IS A TRAITOR!!” in Dallas, Texas.
In the end, Colby was confirmed by the Senate 54-45, mostly on party line votes, with the majority of Democrats once again opposing him because they didn’t agree with Trump.
Without really offering any supporting evidence, McConnell implied in his lengthy statement on Tuesday that Colby’s confirmation could “do irreparable damage to the system of alliances and partnerships” at the Pentagon.
In the restoration of U.S. hard power, he stated, “I am still committed to supporting national security nominees whose records and beliefs make them assets, not liabilities.”
As a clearly ascendant China becomes the dominant threat for the foreseeable future, Colby has long argued for a realignment of American power away from Europe and the Middle East and toward the Indo-Pacific. Given that the Pentagon has been warning about a rising China for ten years, it is unclear why McConnell believes that is a bad strategy.
This week, McConnell launched another attack on Trump, claiming that the 47th president’s refusal to ascribe the war in Ukraine to Russia as the only aggressor “reflects a gross misunderstanding of the nature of negotiations and leverage.”
“Putin’s aims would not stop with Kyiv even if Ukrainian forces surrendered their weapons,” McConnell said in a statement marking the third anniversary of the war, claiming that Vladimir Putin alone is to blame for the “human catastrophe.”
“It is both costly and embarrassing to misunderstand this fact,” McConnell stated.
Additionally, he criticized the Biden administration for its “shameful hesitation and half-measures” in reacting to Russian aggression.
McConnell did not specifically name Trump, but he did state that it would be “even more disgraceful” to ignore the US’s desire to stop Russian aggression.
In addition to being an impolite moral equivalency, he claimed that refusing to recognize Russia as the undisputed and unprovoked aggressor shows a serious ignorance of the nature of leverage and negotiations.
McConnell, who leads the Senate’s Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, made the remarks just days after Trump referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “a dictator without elections” and claimed that he thought Ukraine was the cause of the war with Russia.
McConnell cautioned, “America is right to seek an end to this war, but an end that fails to safeguard Ukrainian sovereignty, restrain Russian ambition, or enhance American credibility with both allies and adversaries is no end at all.”
"""My husband brought his mistress to our daughter’s wedding—and then asked me to give her my seat beside him.
"""My husband brought his mistress to our daughter’s wedding—and then asked me to give her my seat beside him. For a few seconds, I honestly thought I was looking at the wrong table, because my name card had vanished and Melissa’s was sitting exactly where mine had been on every seating chart. She wore a pale blue silk dress, lifted her champagne as if she belonged there, and avoided my eyes when I stopped beside the chair. David stood up, pointed to an empty seat at the next table, and quietly said, “For tonight, why don’t you sit over there?”
I had spent fourteen months helping our daughter, Emily, plan that wedding, from dress fittings and florist meetings to late-night calls over napkins and seating charts. That morning, while I fastened the pearl buttons on her gown, she made me promise I would enjoy the day and not let anything between her father and me touch it. I meant that promise, because whatever was left of my marriage, I would not make my daughter’s wedding the battlefield where it died. But David had apparently made a different plan, and he expected me to cooperate with it in silence.
When I asked what Melissa was doing there, David’s face showed guilt for only a second before he hid it behind irritation. He acted as though I were creating the problem simply by noticing that his mistress was seated at the family table in the place reserved for the bride’s mother. Then Melissa looked at me and said, “Honey, today really isn’t the day to make Emily uncomfortable.” I almost laughed, because the woman who had been sleeping with my husband for nearly a year was now warning me not to embarrass my own daughter.
I could feel people settling into nearby seats, laughing and talking, unaware that my marriage was being quietly rearranged in front of them. David kept his voice low and told me we should not “do this here,” as if the humiliation belonged to me because I refused to disappear politely. I looked at the empty chair he had chosen for me between a cousin and someone from the groom’s side, and I realized something colder than anger. This was not spontaneous; he had thought about where Melissa would sit, and he had assumed I would move.
For twenty-eight years, I had been the woman who adjusted, explained, forgave, and made excuses when David forgot anniversaries, missed dinners, or put work ahead of family. When he became distant, I learned to expect less instead of asking for more, and somewhere along the way he mistook that patience for permission. Even now, part of me considered taking the other chair, smiling for photographs, swallowing the humiliation, and telling myself it was all for Emily. I actually reached for the chair because protecting my daughter still mattered more to me than winning a public fight.
Then I heard one word behind me: “Mom?” Emily was walking toward us in her wedding dress, still glowing from the ceremony, and at first she looked confused rather than angry. Her eyes moved from me, to the empty chair, to Melissa, then back to the family table where she had personally placed me months ago. David quickly stepped in and announced that he had “rearranged a few things,” as if changing the bride’s seating chart without permission were no more serious than moving a centerpiece.
Emily asked why I was not sitting in my seat, and David casually pointed to the neighboring table and said I would be sitting “right there.” Her smile disappeared, and her eyes dropped to the place card in front of Melissa. I watched my daughter’s expression go completely still as she picked up that card and turned it over in her hand. In that instant, I understood the worst part: Emily had not approved this, and David had brought his mistress into our daughter’s wedding believing he could force everyone to accept what he wanted once it was already done.
What Emily did not know was that six months earlier, I had discovered David’s affair through a message that appeared on his phone while he was in the shower. Melissa had written, “I hate pretending I don’t miss you when she’s around,” followed by another message asking whether Friday was still theirs. When I confronted him, David spent eleven minutes calling me paranoid, insecure, dramatic, suspicious, and unfair before I repeated Melissa’s words exactly. The silence that followed ended our marriage long before either of us ever said the word divorce.
We had kept the details quiet because Emily was planning her wedding, and I refused to turn her happiest season into a crisis about us. David told me he was “confused,” that what he had with Melissa was “more complicated than an affair,” and that he needed time before making decisions. I agreed only that Emily’s wedding came first, so we slept in separate rooms, spoke carefully, and tried to appear functional while our marriage quietly collapsed. I believed David understood that one day required restraint, but he had apparently used that silence to prepare something else.
Three weeks before the wedding, he had casually asked whether Emily had finalized the family table and whether every seat had been assigned. At the time, I thought it was harmless conversation, but standing there with Melissa’s card in my daughter’s hand, I finally understood why he had asked. He had been checking whether there would be room, and when there was not, he simply removed me. Emily looked up at her father and asked, very quietly, “Where is Mom’s place card?”—and for the first time that night, David had no easy answer.
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