Germany's entire defense is subsidized by the American taxpayer.

There are thousands upon thousands of American troops in Germany today.

Do you think that the American taxpayer is going to stand for that if you get thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet?

Of course they're not, right?

So the point that I try to make to our European friends, and I think that there are friends. I believe that. I know President Trump does is that that friendship is based on shared values. You do not have shared values if you're jailing people for saying we should close down our border. You don't have shared values if you cancel elections because

you don't like the result and that happened in Romania. You do not have shared values

if you're so afraid of your own people that you silence them and shut them up. So let's have

shared values. Let's defend democracy.

Let's have free expression,

not just in the United States,

but all over the Western world.

That is the path to strong alliances in Europe.

I quite loudly backed Vivek Ramoswamy

when Trump was considering his VP pick.

And I still like Vivek a lot, but I have to say,

I was wrong about J.D. Vance.

It does appear that he has what it takes.

Whatever it is, he has it.

I've been very impressed with him.

The courage with which he, you know, represents his convictions and, you know, speaks them to people in positions of power with what appears to be reckless abandoned is what we need desperately.

And it's what I've, what I've wanted from us, the people broadly, broadly you know particularly during the lockdowns i was like come on just talk just be honest just say how insane everything is

jd vance isn't just doing that in domestic policy he's doing that with foreign policy and he's doing it

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