I felt nauseous watching Vice President JD Vance’s press conference following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minnesota.

His words were both shaming and shocking from a man “only a heartbeat away” from the most powerful political office in the Western world.

As the Trump administration pre-judged the incident in a highly questionable way, limited the investigation into what actually happened and declared “absolute immunity” for the shooter, Vance blackened Good’s name. He claimed without offering any supporting evidence that she had been “brainwashed”, “a deranged leftist” responsible for “a tragedy of her own making”. Vance claimed he wanted to “turn down the temperature” but his words seemed designed to inflame culture wars.

To this observer, it did not look like a good day for Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy to post pictures of himself grinning with “his friend” Vance, hours after his chilling news conference threatening anyone who disagreed with his version of the killing.

But I am not an American voter or one of the lickspittle reporter/influencers with which the White House increasingly fills its briefing room. Intemperate as they are, Vance’s outbursts and obvious silences should all be taken as calculated bids to enhance his chances of securing the Republican nomination in the 2028........

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