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Vance's Vatican Visit Brings Nonviable Reporting, and More 'Fatherly' Evidence From Abrego Garcia Emerges

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Apr 24, 2025
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Presentation Paradox – THE DAILY BEAST

  • Embarrassingly shameful behavior…he was granted permission to engage in.

We covered earlier how at The Daily Beast, they were insistent on slamming JD Vance over his visit to the Vatican. Initially, they said the Pope refused to visit him because he was so deplorable, but then when shown they did, in fact, meet, it became the Pope took time to call Vance deplorable.

Well, these simpletons are again at it, running with the already debunked claim that Vance broke Vatican protocols by taking a selfie of himself in the Sistine Chapel, violating mandates against flash photography. 

As for those “sacred rules”? He was on a guided tour, and the photo was taken by the official White House photographer, with the permission of Vatican officials. How do we know this? The Beast (eventually) gets around to explaining this in its own report…more than a dozen paragraphs after the accusations:

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A source close to the situation told the Daily Beast that the Vatican gave special permission for the photographer in question to take pictures inside the Sistine Chapel.

DNC PR Firm – THE ECONOMIST

  • Don’t look into the metrics, that will just deliver different poll results.

At The Economist, they delivered some polling data that has the press excited – at a ratio of 2:1 more people favor bringing back to the States the illegal immigrant gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If this sounds like a squirrelly return, you are of sound mind.

Looking at the posted results tells the story. The rate of Democrats saying “Yes” to bring him back is equally heavily favored as Republicans saying “No” or “Unsure,” with Independents at 50%. So how are they saying there is such a spread? By heavily weighting the poll for the Dems, at a rate of 8%.

This is the same Economist/YouGov poll that declared Kamala Harris was distinctly favored to win the election in November.

Low-Octane Gaslighting – POLITCO

  • Still, those nameless officials carry far more weight.

Politico delivers the latest in administration back channel exposés, this time coming out to state that there have been talks to pull back on a number of sanctions imposed on Russia as well as reopening the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline to Europe, all supposedly done to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. This, according to five nameless, positionless individuals.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has come out to call this utter trash. More than disputing it, he has stated there have been no discussions of this type at all and called for the outlet to retract the report entirely. We pretty much know this is not at all likely to happen, but it is yet the latest example of those going on the record being mostly overlooked by the press.

Prose & Contradiction – CNN

  • When he doesn’t look he does not see the examples.

We wonder when CNN’s extremism correspondent Donie O’Sullivan will make it to any college campuses this Spring. It seems that as the weather is warming, the anti-Israel protests are becoming all the rage once again, so we are curious if the man who said he was not aware of any political extremism on the left was going to take his camera and boom microphone to speak with any of the protesters currently blocking Jewish students from portions of the campus of Yale or Columbia.

News Avoidance Syndrome – VARIOUS OUTLETS

  • This makes for about the 12th piece of “circumstantial evidence.”

While the press continues with its glorious “Maryland father” narrative – and little in the way of fatherly evidence – now comes a new piece of news about Abrego Garcia for the press to ignore. Details about a traffic stop in which he was found to have no driver’s license while carting about seven illegals from Texas to Maryland emerged. He claimed the car belonged to his boss, and the men were coming to work for the man.

That this man was picked up for human trafficking, which all of the evidence of this traffic violation indicates was taking place, becomes yet another piece of evidence of Garcia connected with gang activity.