Vice President J.D. Vance said he expects “to see a lot of people get indicted” over the investigation into the 2016-2017 Trump-Russia investigation. “What do you want our intelligence community to be doing? I want them to be catching bad guys. I want them to be making sure that terrorists aren’t going to kill innocent American civilians. I don’t want them laundering Hillary Clinton’s campaign talking points into the American media and giving them this air of legitimacy,” Vance told FNC’s Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”

MARIA BARTIROMO: Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for accountability on the whole Russia collusion made-up stories. Now that DNI Tulsi Gabbard has released all of those classified documents, we’re actually seeing who was behind all of this. Do you want to see indictments? VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE: I absolutely want to see indictments, Maria. Look, of course, you have got to have the law follow the facts here. You don’t just indict people to indict people. You indict people because they broke the law. But if you look at what Tulsi and Kash Patel have revealed in the last couple of weeks, I don’t know how anybody can look at that and say that there wasn’t aggressive violations of the law. What they basically did is, they defrauded the American people in order to take Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign talking points and turn them into intelligence by defrauding the American people, defrauding the intelligence agencies, lying about what the intel said. They would take something that supported a Hillary Clinton campaign talking point and they would overemphasize it and exaggerate it. They took anything that actually contradicted that narrative and they buried it deep. And, through that, they actually laundered Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign talking points through the American intelligence services. That’s a violation of the people’s trust. That’s a violation of what our intelligence services should be doing. And I absolutely think they broke the law. And you’re going to see a lot of people get indicted for that. Here’s the thing that should really bother the American people. What do you want our intelligence community to be doing? I want them to be catching bad guys. I want them to be making sure that terrorists aren’t going to kill innocent American civilians. I don’t want them laundering Hillary Clinton’s campaign talking points into the American media and giving them this air of legitimacy. It is sick and it’s disgusting. It hurt the intelligence community. It hurt the American people and it hurt the first Trump administration. We have got to have consequences for it, or we’re just going to see the same play repeated again and after again. BARTIROMO: How significant did it impact the president’s first term? Because, remember, a lot of people didn’t want to work in the administration. He was always on defense, saying, I didn’t collude. What kind of an impact was there to actual policy and the impact on the American people? VANCE: Look, it certainly had an impact, Maria. The president likes to say this, and I really think it hits the nail on the head, that, as much as he got accomplished — and I think the first Trump administration was a major, major success for the American people — he was both governing, but also fighting to survive. Imagine if he was able to put 100 percent of his efforts and his attention on just doing the job of president of the United States. He had to fight back against the fake Russia collusion hoax pretty much his entire administration. That distracts resources. That distracts from the Department of Justice. That means the intelligence community is focused on that, instead of on catching bad guys. It definitely had an impact. Thank God we have a president who was able to do good things for the American people despite it. But one of the reasons why I think the second Trump administration is going so well is because the administration, the people underneath them, the people behind them, the people working for them, they’re not engaged in this fake garbage. We’re just trying to carry out the mandate of the president of the United States. And I think we have done a very good job. We’re very proud of the work that we’re doing, but we’re also loyal to the man who was elected by the American people.
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