JD Vance�s Own Boss Accidentally Exposes His Lies
Edith Olmsted
Mon, October 28, 2024 at 11:46 AM EDT�4 min read
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JD Vance was called out for lying � again.

The Ohio senator was caught trying to create a conspiracy theory about
retired Gen. John Kelly, Donald Trump�s former chief of staff, who said
last week that Trump fits into the �general definition of fascist.�

During an interview with Jake Tapper Sunday on CNN�s State of the Union,
Vance was faced with his own creative interpretation of Kelly�s decision to
sound the alarm against Trump.

�You said the other day, quote, �I guarantee John Kelly talked to somebody
on Kamala Harris�s campaign beforehand,� before he did this interview,�
Tapper said. �I�ve spoken with people in John Kelly�s circle, and I�ve
spoken with people in the Kamala Harris campaign, they say there�s been no
communication the entire time, so where did that come from?�

�Oh, I�m highly skeptical of that, Jake,� Vance replied. �You know the way
that these attacks work, you know the way that these people are often
vetted by a campaign before something goes out there��

�So, you made it up?� Tapper interjected.

�No, I said that the American media and the American Democratic Party
apparatus works a certain way,� Vance said. �If it comes out that John
Kelly never even spoke with a person in the Kamala Harris orbit��

�I�m telling you that,� Tapper insisted.

�You�re telling me that based on secondhand conversations with John Kelly,�
Vance said.

�If it is true that he never spoke with anyone in Kamala Harris�s orbit,
I�m happy to apologize to John Kelly for misstating how he delivered this
news to The Atlantic magazine,� he added.

To cast attention far away from his lie, Vance then suggested that Kelly
had a �particular ideological motive� for going to Atlantic editor in chief
Jeffrey Goldberg, whom he said had �encouraged� the invasion of Iraq with
�dishonest� journalism.

During his interview with CNN, Vance also tried to defend Trump�s remarks
calling Democrats �the enemy within� and threatening to send the military
after American citizens by pretending Trump had never said that at all, and
then claimed Trump�s threats were taken �out of context.�

Trump has �said publicly that he wants to use the military to go after �the
enemy within,� which is the American people,� Tapper explained.

�He did not say that, Jake,� Vance responded. �He said that he was going to
send the military after the American people? Show me the quote where he
said that.�

For the record, here�s the quote from earlier this month: �We have some
very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I
think they�re the�and it should be easily handled by, if necessary, by
National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can�t
let that happen.�

But Trump hasn�t just said �enemy from within� once, he�s said it at nearly
every speaking event for the past two weeks, adding more and more context
to exactly whom he views as the �enemy from within.�

The Republican presidential candidate has used the term to describe
Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, suggesting that �enemy from
within� referred to his political rivals. In an interview with Joe Rogan on
Friday, Trump used the phrase again, referring to people who disagree with
his politics as �people that are really bad, people that I really think
want to make this country unsuccessful.�

Vance went on the defensive anyway. �He said that he wanted to use the
military to go after far-left lunatics who are rioting, and � he also
called them �the enemy within,�� Vance insisted Sunday.

�He separately, in a totally different context, in a totally different
conversation, said that Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff were threats to this
country,� Vance continued, conveniently leaving out that Trump had used the
exact same language about both�the very definition of taking something out
of context.

But it took barely a few hours before Trump repeated the phrase again
Sunday night, at a rally in New York City, adding even more context.

�A massive, crooked, vicious radical left machine that runs the Democratic
Party,� Trump said. �They�re just vessels.�

�And when I say the �enemy from within,� the other side goes crazy. Becomes
a soundb��Ohh, how can he say?� No, they�ve done very bad things to this
country. They are indeed the enemy from within,� Trump whined.

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Cleotha Abston

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man pleaded guilty Monday to kidnapping a Memphis school teacher while she was on an early morning run and then killing her.

Cleotha Abston entered guilty pleas to first-degree murder and especially aggravated kidnapping in the abduction and death of Eliza Fletcher.

Abston, 40, had been set to stand trial in February. Prosecutors had said they would seek the death penalty if Abston were convicted of first-degree murder. Instead, Judge Lee Coffee sentenced Abston to life in prison without parole after he entered the guilty pleas.

Fletcher was grabbed from a street while she was jogging before dawn near the University of Memphis on Sept. 2, 2022, and forced into an SUV. Her body was found days later near a vacant duplex.

The killing of Fletcher, a 34-year-old kindergarten teacher and mother of two, shocked the Memphis community and led to a flood of support for her family. Runners in Memphis and several other cities held early morning running events in her honor a week after she was abducted, a tradition that has continued in the city on the anniversary of her kidnapping.

In a statement, Fletcher's family said they “miss the bright light of Liza’s life every day.”

"Liza meant so much to so many, and her smile radiated happiness, energy, and comfort," her family said. “Her husband, her children, her parents, her brother, the rest of her family, her friends, her students, her school families, her fellow teachers, her church community, and so many others were moved by countless examples of her faith, kindness, and compassion.”

Abston, who also has gone by the name Cleotha Henderson, was arrested after police detected his DNA on sandals found near the location where Fletcher was last seen. An autopsy report showed Fletcher died of a gunshot wound to the head.

“We had been meeting with him regularly for the past few months and had been telling him that we need to settle this case, that we cannot go forward with a trial and expect to succeed,” said Juni Ganguli, Abston's lawyer.

Abston was sentenced to 80 years in prison May 17 for raping a woman a year before he was charged in Fletcher’s death. He was convicted in April of raping the woman while holding her at gunpoint in September 2021.

Abston, whose history of criminal charges dates back to the 1990s when he was a juvenile, was not charged in the 2021 rape case until after being charged a year later with killing Fletcher because of a long delay in processing the sexual assault kit. After Fletcher’s death, the Legislature passed a law requiring the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to issue a quarterly report on sexual assault kit testing times.

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