Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) got into a contentious disagreement in an interview on Sunday over former President Donald Trump calling for an investigation into President Joe Biden.
Vance criticized the media and Democratic lawmakers for how they have “lost their minds” over Trump saying he would “appoint a real special prosecutor to go after” Biden and his family. The Ohio senator argued that Trump was talking about investigating Biden for “wrongdoing” and that the current president has already been doing this for several years now.
“I think what Donald Trump is simply saying is we ought to investigate the prior administration,” Vance said on NBC’s Meet the Press. “There are obviously many instances of wrongdoing. The House Oversight Committee has identified a number of corrupt business transactions that may or may not be criminal. Of course, you have to investigate to find out. So I think Donald Trump saying, ‘Look, let’s do the basic work of investigating wrongdoing,’ is a totally reasonable thing for him to do.”
“And frankly, the Biden administration has done far worse,” he argued. “So if you think that what Donald Trump is proposing is a threat to democracy, isn’t what President Biden has already done a massive threat to our system of law and government?”
Vance also said that one of the main prosecutors in Trump’s hush money trial had been an official in the U.S. Department of Justice in the Biden administration “who jumped ship to join a local prosecutor’s office to go after Donald Trump.” Host Kristen Welker contended that this happens “all the time,” which Vance pushed back against.
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Trump has argued his hush money conviction, in which he was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying records of a payment he made to porn star Stormy Daniels, “cannot stand” in light of the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision. The ruling states that former presidents are entitled to some immunity for official acts but not for unofficial acts.
Prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling, Vance argued that U.S. presidents need immunity if they wish to be able to do their job, citing how police officers, judges, and prosecutors enjoy a level of immunity and that this should apply to the role of president.
