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J.D. Vance is shape-shifting again
The Vice-President has ditched his anti-interventionist persona to defend the so-called Trump Doctrine on Iran.
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US Vice-President J.D. Vance is ditching another persona as he tries to sell President Donald Trump’s Iran strikes to a sceptical Maga base and equally sceptical public.
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Nia-Malika Henderson
In his short political career, US Vice President J.D. Vance has already proven himself to be a political shape-shifter who morphs into whatever suits his political ambitions. It’s how he went from being an anti-Trump CNN commentator to President Donald Trump’s second in command in just eight years.
Now he is ditching another persona, that of the anti-interventionist, as he tries to sell Mr Trump’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities to a sceptical Maga base and equally sceptical public.
