Krystal Ball

Vance or somebody in the J.D.

Vance world that has been leaking to them most extensively.

But it's not like an either the Epstein cover up piece or the Iran war piece makes him or literally anyone else look good.

Normally, that's the way you have to look at these accounts is like, OK, well, who is this trying to paint in a favorable light?

who is leading to them so that they can get their story on the record and help to establish for the historical record like, oh, well, I was the one who knew what was going on.

I was the one who had the right decisions.

I was the one who was opposed to Iran.

I was the one who had the correct strategy with regard to Epstein.

But it is a little bit hard to tell because everybody looks pretty bad based on how this went down.

The other thing is just to point out,

The fact that the Epstein cover-up was being hatched in the Situation Room is really kind of crazy.

I mean, it makes sense because it is genuinely like a massive national security issue given all of the entanglements and, you know, Israeli connections and all of those sorts of things.

But it still is incredibly crazy.

That that's where they were doing some of their most significant brainstorming about how do we keep the truth that Donald Trump is all over these files out of the view of the public or at the very least sort of like throw enough in their face so that they can't grab on to one single allegation and then move on.

Yeah, and J.D.

Vance on the Iran war piece, he said something like, you know, I have my reservations, but if you do it, I'll support you.

It was basically his position.

I mean, I guess if you had to say of anybody, he does kind of, I mean, like you said, nobody comes out looking good.

But he's on the record of being like, oh, this isn't a great idea with the Iran war.

He's one of the aides in the Epstein piece who is at least in touch with the fact that this is a problem for Trump, whereas others who are who are quoted in that excerpt are left.