{"id":17067,"date":"2025-04-01T19:25:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17067"},"modified":"2025-04-01T19:25:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:25:27","slug":"jd-vances-role-in-signal-chat-angers-senior-republican-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17067","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance&#8217;s role in Signal chat angers senior Republican lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;\u201cI think we are making a mistake,\u201d Vance&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2025\/03\/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans\/682151\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in the Signal chat<\/a>, later published by The Atlantic. Vance argued that although Trump wanted to send a message with the strikes, \u201cI am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now.\u201d&nbsp;He did say, though, that he was \u201cwilling to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself,\u201d but went on to say \u201cthere is a strong argument for delaying this a month.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minutes later, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller shut down the conversation, writing, \u201cAs I heard it, the president was clear.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The senior Republican official added: \u201cIt\u2019s one thing to have a healthy interagency debate before a decision is made. It\u2019s another to try and undo a Commander-in-Chief decision once Trump gives the execute order. This is the latter, and it\u2019s very [John] Bolton-esque.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Republicans believe Vance raising questions about an action the president had already agreed to amounted to a form of obstruction, the same senior Republican official said.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/jd-vances-role-signal-chat-130008838.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u201cI think we are making a mistake,\u201d Vance wrote in the Signal chat, later published by The Atlantic. Vance argued that although Trump wanted to send a message with the strikes, \u201cI am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now.\u201d He did say, though, that he was \u201cwilling to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself,\u201d but went on to say \u201cthere is a strong argument for delaying this a month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller shut down the conversation, writing, \u201cAs I heard it, the president was clear.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The senior Republican official added: \u201cIt\u2019s one thing to have a healthy interagency debate before a decision is made. It\u2019s another to try and undo a Commander-in-Chief decision once Trump gives the execute order. This is the latter, and it\u2019s very [John] Bolton-esque.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some Republicans believe Vance raising questions about an action the president had already agreed to amounted to a form of obstruction, the same senior Republican official said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/jd-vances-role-signal-chat-130008838.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[173,221,728,272,355,460,314,2082,391,259,1226,191,170,2081,1151],"class_list":["post-17067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bomb","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-intelligence","tag-international-relations","tag-jd-vance","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-shipping","tag-strike","tag-trump","tag-vance","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17068,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067\/revisions\/17068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}