JD Vance defends Trump’s desire to investigate Biden in controversial interview

Senator JD Vance (R-OH) got into a heated discussion about former President Donald Trump’s call for an investigation into President Joe Biden in an interview on Sunday.

Vance criticized the media and Democratic lawmakers for “losing their minds” when Trump said he would “appoint a real special prosecutor to go after Biden and his family.” The Ohio senator argued that Trump had talked about investigating Biden for “misconduct” and that the current president has already been doing so for several years.

“I think what Donald Trump is simply saying is that we should investigate the previous administration,” Vance said on NBC’s Meet the press“There are obviously a lot of cases of misconduct. The House Oversight Committee has identified a number of corrupt business transactions that may or may not be criminal. Of course, you have to do research to find that out. So I think it’s perfectly reasonable for Donald Trump to say, let’s do the basic work of investigating misconduct.”

“And frankly, the Biden administration has done much worse,” he argued. “So if you think what Donald Trump is proposing is a threat to democracy, then isn’t what President Biden has already done a massive threat to our legal and governmental system?”

Vance also said that one of the lead prosecutors in the Trump hush money case was a U.S. Department of Justice official in the Biden administration “who jumped ship to join a local prosecutor’s office to prosecute Donald Trump.” Welker claimed that this happens “all the time,” which Vance denied.

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Trump argued that his hush money conviction, in which he was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying receipts for a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, “cannot stand” in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity. The ruling says former presidents are entitled to some immunity for official acts but not for unofficial acts.

Before the Supreme Court’s decision, Vance had argued that US presidents need immunity if they want to hold office. He pointed out that police officers, judges and prosecutors enjoy a certain level of immunity and that this should also apply to the office of the president.