Former President Donald Trump officially tapped Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, as his 2024 running mate on Monday. The Republican candidate’s decision was no doubt a strategic one made with the recent attempt on his life in mind.

Vice presidents have always played an important role in American history. The position as POTUS’ successor, however, has become far more significant in recent weeks after this year’s top two presidential candidates survived an attempted assassination and an attempted political coup.

The Saturday shot heard around the world wasn’t the first time Trump has faced a targeted attack meant to take him out of the race for the White House, and it almost certainly won’t be the last.

Democrats have spent the last eight years prepping for assassination by trying to smear, usurp, bankrupt, de-ballot, and jail their top political opponent. If they should finally succeed, Trump needs a trusted right hand who American voters can trust to handle the fallout without becoming controlled opposition.

While he’s wavered on key pro-life issues such as when he offered a full-fledged endorsement of the dangerous drug responsible for more than half of the nation’s abortions, Vance, unlike many Republicans, has signaled a willingness to take on the fight against deep state lawfare and Biden’s corrupt Department of Justice.  

The 39-year-old may have only served a third of his first six-year Senate term, but he has garnered Trump’s trust as someone who is “strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American Workers and Farmers

MSNBC yanked their flagship show, “Morning Joe,” off the air on Monday over concerns the hosts would say something “inappropriate” about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, CNN reported. But as The Federalist’s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway explained, MSNBC admitted just “how damaging” the show is to America.

CNN’s Oliver Darcy reported that “the decision was made to avoid a scenario in which one of the show’s stable of two dozen-plus guests might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and network as a whole.” A spokesperson for NBCUniversal News Group told CNN that the network would be cross simulcasting between NBC News and MSNBC to cover the breaking news.

But, as Hemingway explained, MSNBC executives knew thy could not “trust [Morning Joe] at all at a moment like this.”

Amazing admission by NBC here of how damaging to the country their flagship morning show is, and that they can’t trust them at all at a moment like this. https://t.co/gAFTeKCb7r

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 15, 2024

MSNBC’s decision to yank the show off the air during some of the most impactful days in American history indicates that executives know the show has become ground zero for hateful and divisive rhetoric. It’s the same rhetoric that President Joe Biden decried Sunday night in a speech begging for people to tone down the rhetoric (despite multiple instances of Biden himself likening Trump to Hitler).

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Nearly a dozen Republican senators wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week demanding the Justice Department chief fire the agency’s top official for civil rights.

On Friday, lawmakers led by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on the Senate Judiciary Committee accused Clarke lying under oath during her 2021 confirmation process to serve as assistant attorney general for civil rights.

“During her nomination to her current role, Ms. Clarke was asked if she had ‘ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person,’” senators wrote. “Ms. Clarke was unequivocal, responding under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee, ‘No.’ That was a lie.”

“Ms. Clarke has now admitted that she was arrested in 2006 for attacking and injuring someone with a knife,” the letter explained.

“It has also recently come to light that, shortly before the full Senate voted on her nomination, Ms. Clarke and her publicist contacted the man she attacked in an attempt to cover up her false testimony,” lawmakers added.

Senators cited a spring report from Daily Signal author and reporter Mary Margaret Olohan, who wrote in May that Clarke asked her ex-husband “for a statement saying that she was not a domestic abuser during a confirmation process where she did not disclose her past arrest.” Olohan’s reporting was based on an investigation from the American Accountability Foundation, which found Clarke pulled a knife on her ex-husband, Reginald Avery, “deeply slicing his finger to the bone” on July 4, 2006, when