WATCH: At a TPUSA event at Ole Miss, VP Vance is asked a hypothetical question by a student: If a future “tyrant” president claims a conservative protest is “violent,” could they abuse the same federal power President Trump just used when deploying the National Guard to American cities.
Vance’s answer nails it:
“When you talk about what could another administration do, to take a wild hypothetical example totally off the top of my head, what if Joe Biden sent the Federal Bureau of Investigation to start arresting his political opponents?… So here's something that I want every conservative to remember… we cannot be afraid to do something because the left might do it in the future. The left is already going to do it regardless of whether we do it. That is the takeaway of the last 40 years. And in particular, if you look at what we're doing, if Joe Biden wanted to deploy the National Guard to a red state in a place where the murder rate was twice what it is in third world countries to actually go after murderers, that would be a great use of the National Guard. But unfortunately, I don't think Joe Biden would use it like that.”
He says, “What I'm worried about, frankly, is what the far left already did with American law enforcement. And that is the thing that we have to prevent against. And the answer to that question is you make sure the people who did it face penalties for using the federal power against American citizens. And by the way, that's exactly what we're trying to do.”
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