SEN ALEX PADILLA: JD Vance and Trump personify political theater. And we're watching their biggest act yet
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Let's take a look at VP JD Vance's recent LA visit, the Trump administration's military deployment and use of political theater to distract from policy failures.
Democrat Alex Padilla represents California in the United States Senate.
Instead, the vice president came to escalate a crisis of President Trump’s own making and to disparage California’s elected officials.
How else would you describe the vice president’s conduct, when three days after Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass lifted the curfew downtown and protests were dissipating, he staged a press conference to attack state and local leaders, falsely claiming they had "decided to go to war against" law enforcement.
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