CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Smacks Down Trump VP Prospect JD Vance For Attacking Biden Over Trump Trial

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins smacked down a raft of false claims when Trump VP prospect Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) tried to blame President Joe Biden for the criminal trial he claims is keeping ex-President Donald Trump off the campaign trail.

Trump and his allies have consistently rattled off a series of attacks and talking points about the Stormy Daniels hush money-election interference trial, which Collins and her colleagues have been consistent in debunking.

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins got the chance to knock down a bunch of them as she confronted Vance to cap off a contentious interview:

COLLINS: This isn’t about me, Senator.

VANCE: –about threats to American–

COLLINS: I’m asking questions about you, and how you would feel about this.

VANCE: Yes, look, I’m trying to answer the question. I’d appreciate if you let me.

We know that there are threats to American democracy. I think the biggest threat to American democracy, Kaitlan, is that the Biden administration is trying to prevent Donald Trump from campaigning, and taking his case to the American people.

COLLINS: It’s a judge, in New York–

VANCE: Even as they hide their own candidate.

COLLINS: –that’s presiding over that case. It’s — the Biden administration is not preventing Donald Trump from campaigning.

VANCE: This — this is a–

COLLINS: He just did two campaign events tonight.

VANCE: This is a really important point, Kaitlan. Who is the number three person, from the Biden Department of Justice, who went to work for the New York prosecutor, just months before he brought this case, against Donald Trump?

You can’t have people moving, from the Biden administration, to prosecute Donald Trump, in New York, and say it has nothing to do with the Biden administration, especially–

COLLINS: Attorneys go from the Justice Department–

VANCE: –when the judge is a Biden administration donor.

COLLINS: –to local D.A.’s offices all the time. That’s not that unusual.

VANCE: It’s pretty–

COLLINS: I mean, you’re an attorney. You know that.

VANCE: It’s pretty unusual.

COLLINS: You probably have colleagues, who went to Yale with you that did that.

VANCE: It’s pretty unusual for the number three person, in the Department of Justice, to then go to the New York prosecutor’s office, to bring a bogus case against Donald Trump, and then to have the judge presiding over that case, to be a donor to Biden-Harris. I think that’s pretty unusual, Kaitlan.

And really is, aside from your views or anyone else’s views about Donald Trump, this is a real threat to Americans’ trust in the legal system. If you look at polling, even a lot of folks, who are going to vote for Joe Biden think that the lawfare against Donald Trump is bogus. We’re destroying faith, in the American system of law and in order–

COLLINS: OK.

VANCE: –to try to bring down Joe Biden’s political opponent. That’s a threat to democracy.

COLLINS: It’s a jury of his peers that indicted him, and a jury of his peers that will be — that are in that room, right now, and will decide this case.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.