Juris Doctor Vance, Not So Young, Also Not Credible

 

While we can tell ourselves that part of Karoline Leavitt's juvenile dissembling attempts are sheer youth and immaturity, we know for sure that Vice-Signaling Junior President Vance "tells stories" with a purpose. So, when he condescendingly insults a reporter for not having read a court document--I don't even assume the JD Vance was simply mistaken and responding in a hurry when he got the basic details entirely wrong. 

JD Vance is a Yale Law grad and quite capable of seeing whether or not Kilmar Abrego Garcia was convicted of or merely accused of being a member of MS-13. It seems to me he counts on MAGA not reading, and only superficially noticing a lot of liberals telling Vance he's wrong (which he is) and assuming they are "triggered."

See how that works? The ultimate in cynicism: making knee-jerk anti-liberal and anti-intellectualism of his rubes work for him. 

Even though the Administration knows they have made a mistake, except that it's one they are in no hurry to try and rectify because justice is not their goal. 

There's a lot going on here. It is theater played out with real people's lives. The dishonesty and the cruelty alike are very purposeful: the message seems to be anyone can be lied about, can be made to disappear.