Truth About JD and Usha Vance's Marriage: Wolff

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles to dissect the latest unraveling in Trumpworld: the controversial CBS News settlement, followed by their soft-ball sit‑down with Donald Trump. They question: Is this real journalism or a pay‑for‑play fluff piece? Later, they turn to JD Vance’s weekend spectacle—the public message to his Hindu wife, the viral hug with Erica Kirk, and what it reveals about Vance’s naked ambition to court MAGA while lacking the requisite authenticity to appeal truly. Along the way, they chart how the conservative media ecosystem is shifting, how Trump’s polling collapse and foreign‑policy chaos are fueling the vacuum around Trump, and how ambition, extreme rhetoric, and charged cynicism have become the new tools of power in Washington.

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0:00.0	J.D. Vance was, spoke at a turning point USA convention. In the course of his presentation, he said that he wished his wife, Ushah, whose parents are Indian and she was raised as a Hindu.
0:18.3	He wished that she would convert to Catholicism as he had done. I think that they're in it
0:26.3	together and plotting to achieve the presidency. I am saying that their pillow talk is about power.
0:35.1	We can taste it. All we have to do is bend this way and bend that way and, you know, do what endure, what we have to endure.
0:46.8	Michael. Joanna.
0:49.2	Okay. First, we have to begin with an apology, which filled our comments comments and I got lots and lots of emails
0:55.4	from people quite rightly pointing out that of course and I started this we got the name of the
1:01.5	residence of Andrew formerly known as Prince Andrew wrong he wasn't of course a Frogmore he was at
1:08.2	Royal Lodge a 30 roomed fabulosity, which he's being
1:15.0	turfed out of. So there, so that means my joke is ruined about being marched, frog-marched
1:21.5	out of Frog-Marched out of Frogmore. I know. I loved you or being a frog-marched out of Frogmore,
1:25.5	but alas, we'll have to save it for somebody
1:27.9	else. Who does live in Frogmore? Yeah, well, I think Megan and Harry lived in Frogmore.
1:35.0	I'm probably going to be immediately swamped with more comments and emails, but thank you for
1:41.1	pointing it out. It's very, very helpful. I never want to get things wrong.
1:45.0	I don't think you deliberately got that wrong. I would say inadvertently. No, no, inadvertently, of course.
1:54.5	Michael, did you watch the CBS or Fox Light, as it's now being referred to, interview with Donald Trump.
2:04.6	Well, did anyone watch it? Does anyone watch 60 minutes? But I did see some, a variety of
2:13.7	social media clips of the interview. It's completely appalling in every way. Not just what,
2:23.3	that not just that Donald Trump is of course appalling and and seems not to remember the
2:30.8	person who he clearly remembers who he pardoned, but even put that aside.
2:38.2	The idea that 60 Minutes would do this interview, would feel that it could do this interview
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