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Forced to back up his boss' decision to needlessly send National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles, Vance utters fantastic false claims about recent events.
[That did not happen.]
“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,” Vance said.
When asked why he referred to the senator as "José Padilla," despite his first name being Alejandro ['Alex'], Taylor Van Kirk — a spokesperson for Vance — said "he must have mixed up two people who have broken the law." Van Kirk did not elaborate.
In 2007, a jury convicted U.S. citizen José Padilla on charges of supporting al Qaeda after he was initially accused of planning to carry out a "dirty bomb" attack in the U.S. He was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison; it was later increased to 21 years.
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Vance also alluded to protestors "capturing" and assaulting law enforcement.
[There are certainly arrests for assaulting police. Gavin Newsom did not egg anyone on to capture and beat law enforcement.]
[That local news was literally what I watched last night. Hat tip to Mike Rogers at 'the Desk'. Usually he's showing car crashes, police stand-offs and high speed police chases, but here he uses his quick connections to all the local law enforcement agencies to get statements that nothing like that happened.]
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Mayor Bass: "How dare you say that city officials encourage violence? We kept the peace. You know that the federal officials that were here protected a federal building, they were not involved in crowd control. Crowd control was handled most aptly by the Los Angeles Police Department, the sheriff's department and local law enforcement," she said.
[If anything, local law enforcement pushed crowds away from the federal troops so that there was no chance for them to come into conflict. The federal troops have not been needed and served as an additional complicating factor on the situation.]
Newsom noted that Vance presides over the Senate and was a senator previously, so he should know Padilla's name. On social media he indicated it was 'not an accident'. Official statements encouraged Vance to tour the fire-ravaged sections of the city and work with the president to provide emergency aid that the latter appears unwilling to allow.
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Vance is literally and falsely painting elected officials of the opposing political party as violent extremists and terrorists.
Not 'leftists' or 'protestors' or 'rioters', but the mayor, senator, governor 'and other officials'.
JD Vance refers to Sen. Alex Padilla as 'José Padilla' in remarks blasting Democrats during L.A. visit
"What I see here today is the great tragedy, when a mayor and a governor encourages their citizens to harass and endanger the lives of our police officers and our law enforcement officers. It's heartbreaking to see, and thank God we've got great people who are willing to persevere despite it," Vance said.[That did not happen.]
“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,” Vance said.
When asked why he referred to the senator as "José Padilla," despite his first name being Alejandro ['Alex'], Taylor Van Kirk — a spokesperson for Vance — said "he must have mixed up two people who have broken the law." Van Kirk did not elaborate.
In 2007, a jury convicted U.S. citizen José Padilla on charges of supporting al Qaeda after he was initially accused of planning to carry out a "dirty bomb" attack in the U.S. He was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison; it was later increased to 21 years.
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Vance also alluded to protestors "capturing" and assaulting law enforcement.
Fact checking Vice President Vance's claim that officers "were captured and beaten by violent mobs"
In a press conference, Vice President Vance said that "there were law enforcement officers who were being captured and beaten by violent mobs, egged on by Gavin Newsom and other officials." LAPD, LASD, the FBI and the CHP officials could not point to any specific examples of law enforcement officers being captured and beaten.[There are certainly arrests for assaulting police. Gavin Newsom did not egg anyone on to capture and beat law enforcement.]
[That local news was literally what I watched last night. Hat tip to Mike Rogers at 'the Desk'. Usually he's showing car crashes, police stand-offs and high speed police chases, but here he uses his quick connections to all the local law enforcement agencies to get statements that nothing like that happened.]
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Mayor Bass: "How dare you say that city officials encourage violence? We kept the peace. You know that the federal officials that were here protected a federal building, they were not involved in crowd control. Crowd control was handled most aptly by the Los Angeles Police Department, the sheriff's department and local law enforcement," she said.
[If anything, local law enforcement pushed crowds away from the federal troops so that there was no chance for them to come into conflict. The federal troops have not been needed and served as an additional complicating factor on the situation.]
Newsom noted that Vance presides over the Senate and was a senator previously, so he should know Padilla's name. On social media he indicated it was 'not an accident'. Official statements encouraged Vance to tour the fire-ravaged sections of the city and work with the president to provide emergency aid that the latter appears unwilling to allow.
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Vance is literally and falsely painting elected officials of the opposing political party as violent extremists and terrorists.
Not 'leftists' or 'protestors' or 'rioters', but the mayor, senator, governor 'and other officials'.
