JD Vance Defends the Indefensible on Live TV (w/ Jon Favreau)
Bulwark Takes
The Bulwark
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Tim Miller and Pod Saves America’s Jon Favreau give their takes on JD Vance’s latest performance defending ICE raids, child detentions, warrantless home entries, and racial profiling allegations. We walk through the facts JD Vance ignored, the lies he told calmly and confidently, and why this version of Trumpism that’s cooler, smoother, and more deliberate may be even more dangerous.
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| 0:40.6 | Klonopin, whether that's a cigarette, you know, what the right thing is to just kind of try to keep the blood pressure down. And we're like, you know, maybe the best thing to do would be to talk about it together. You know, community might be the best drug in this situation. So I've got to |
| 0:55.3 | hear with me. Only, only Jay, hey Tim, thanks for, thanks for having me on. Only, um, only J.D. Vance could like, uh, could get me to be like pre-angry. Like, I was angry this morning, just seeing that he was going to Minneapolis. The cortisol started spiking, much like our friend |
| 1:15.4 | Cavicular. You got to not your cortisol spike. Don't let your cortisol spike if, you know, if Nick Fuentes |
| 1:22.0 | tries to mog you. All right. Well, your cortisol spiking, your pre-anger was validated because J.D. put on his normal performance. He was like a vice principal scolding you for the thing you did wrong except for that you didn't do it. And the JD v. And so that's very frustrating to deal with. I don't like being scolded when I'm in the wrong. I certainly don't like being scolded when I'm in the wrong. I certainly |
| 1:44.6 | don't like being scolded when I'm in the right. And that's like, that's a, that's a, that's a |
| 1:47.7 | frustrating element for JD Vance as compared to like some of our, some of our scolds on maybe the other side of the aisle. Let's go to the videotape. So everyone else can be mad with us. first we're going to weigh in on jd responding to the story you may have seen the picture of the five-year-old |
| 2:01.8 | a little boy that was detained by ICE. He's part of their four daycare and elementary school students from the same school that were detained by ICE over the course of the past week. And he weighed in on one of them let's watch and i see this story and i'm a |
| 2:18.2 | father of a five-year-old actually a five-year-old little boy and i think to myself oh my god this is |
| 2:22.4 | terrible how did we arrest a five-year-old well i do a little bit more follow-up research and what i |
| 2:26.8 | find is that the five-year-old was not arrested that his dad was an illegal alien and then they |
| 2:33.0 | went when they went to arrest his illegal alien father, the father ran. |
| 2:37.0 | So the story is that ICE detained a five-year-old. |
| 2:41.0 | What are they supposed to do? |
| 2:42.0 | Are they supposed to let a five-year-old child freeze to death? |
| 2:45.0 | Are they not supposed to arrest an illegal alien in the United States of America? |
| 2:50.0 | If the argument is that you can't arrest people who have violated our laws because they have |
| 2:55.7 | children, then every single parent is going to be completely given immunity from ever being |
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