Kaitlan Collins Taken Aback by John Bolton’s Criticism of JD Vance: ‘As Damning of a Comment That You Can Hear from a Republican’
John Bolton, former President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, slammed JD Vance over comments he made about people without children influencing the future of the country during a Friday night interview with CNN.
Bolton was pressed about incendiary remarks Trump’s running mate made to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in 2021 in which he bemoaned the impact of “childless cat ladies” on the future of the country.
The comments resurfaced in recent days and have seen Vance put under the microscope during his first week as a major party White House candidate. During his interview with Carlson, Vance said, “It’s just a basic fact — you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children… how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
On CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, the network anchor pressed Bolton for his take on the state of Trump’s campaign. Bolton compared Vance’s remarks to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s infamous pre-2016 election “basket of deplorables” moment, which many speculated cost Clinton the election.
“Well, [Vance is] also getting a lot of blowback on comments that he made before talking about the government being run by childless cat ladies and really going after people – essentially arguing that people who don’t have children don’t have as vested of an interest in the government,” Collins noted.
She then asked Bolton about a prediction from former Trump White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci that Trump would drop Vance from the ticket. Bolton replied:
I mean, I think he’s stuck with him now and I think these comments by Vance are really the 2024 counterpart of Hillary Clinton’s famous statement in the 2016 election where she called Trump’s supporters deplorables. I mean if politicians can’t learn it’s one thing to attack your opponent. It’s another thing to attack your opponent supporters and that’s just not a way to win friends and influence people. I don’t think Vance learned the lesson that Hillary Clinton unfortunately for herself, learned in 2016. That’s going to hurt Trump as you get closer to the election.
Collins responded, “That’s about as damning of a comment that you can hear from a Republican – that something that someone said is equal to what Hillary Clinton said in 2016 about the basket of deplorables.”
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