Do Not Trust Donald Trump or J.D. Vance

Vice President Vance asks that we simply trust President Trump on the issue of attacking Iran while they both lie to our faces

Article 1, Section 1 of the United States Constitution states:

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution then goes on to state:

The Congress shall have Power… To declare War…

So the Constitution explicitly states that all powers granted in Article 1 are for the Congress, and then goes on to explicitly state that the Congress shall have the power to declare war. Not the president.

In a lengthy post on X, Vice President Vance states, among other questionable assertions, that President Trump has the authority to “end Iranian enrichment,” which would require an act of war.

Meanwhile, the president has shown remarkable restraint in keeping our military's focus on protecting our troops and protecting our citizens.

He may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment. That decision ultimately belongs to the president.

That decision does not ultimately belong to the president, it ultimately belongs to the congress per the Constitution. Of course, no presidential regime has ever cared about the Constitution, and the Congress is only too happy to pass on their responsibility to declare war or not. Still, it’s worth pointing out that Vance is outright lying, especially given that he goes on to state:

But I believe the president has earned some trust on this issue. And having seen this up close and personal, I can assure you that he is only interested in using the American military to accomplish the American people's goals. Whatever he does, that is his focus.

President Trump has earned absolutely no trust on this issue, nor has Vice President Vance given that we have established that he already lied in his tweet about the constitutional powers of the presidency. I posted on Sunday that Trump was lying in a post on Truth Social that the United States “had nothing to do with the attack on Iran” for a variety of reasons.

Now Trump has a new post on Truth Social all but admitting that he was lying.

Source: Truth Social

Who is we? He tells you right in the post: “the good ol’ USA.”

No politician should ever be trusted. H. L. Mencken put it best:

The burden of proof, as I see it, is always upon the policeman, which is to say, upon the lawmaker, the theologian, the right-thinker. He must prove his case doubly, triply, quadruply, and then he must start all over and prove it again. The eye through which I view him is watery and jaundiced. I do not pretend to be “just” to him — any more than a Christian pretends to be just to the devil.

Donald Trump is a politician. J.D. Vance is a politician. By entering politics at all they have forfeited the right to be trusted by those of us they purport to govern, and by openly lying even more so. If the claim is that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, as it has been the claim from people wanting war with Iran for my entire life, then they have to prove their case, especially since Trump’s own Director of National Intelligence testified a few short months ago that there was no evidence that Iran was trying to develop nuclear weapons.

Simply saying “trust us” while you lie about the constitutional powers of the president, lie about your illegal involvement in the attack against Iran in the first place, and dismiss the intelligence reported by your own administration that would undermine your reason for being involved in the attack against Iran is unacceptable. Especially when it comes to getting the United States involved in another endless, un-winnable war in the Middle East and innocent people die by the hundreds of thousands as a result. These are the same lies that led to the disastrous war in Iraq 20+ years ago with the same amount of evidence provided: None. So no, Mr. Vice President, we will not trust you on this issue.