'Vance kept away from Mar-a-Lago': Report reveals VP's role in controversial military move

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

January 3, 2026 5:35PM ET


After Donald Trump announced that the U.S. had captured the leader of Venezuela, there was some speculation about whether JD Vance was on the same page as the president. A new report answers that question.

Trump made the disclosure early Saturday morning that there was a military strike on Venezuela.

Hours later, Bloomberg published an article called "Vance, Trump Met Covertly Ahead of Strikes to Keep Secrecy," in which the outlet reports, "Vice President JD Vance was kept away from Mar-a-Lago this weekend due to concerns his presence would signal upcoming strikes against Venezuela," citing "sources close to the vice president."

Bloomberg further continued: "Vance and President Donald Trump met on Friday covertly to discuss details of the U.S.'s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as the White House plans to temporarily 'run the country.' They met at the president’s golf club in West Palm Beach, but Vance was not at Mar-a-Lago on Friday evening due to security concerns, according to a spokesperson for Vance, who spoke on the condition of background."

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-2674845482/

[msongs]

1. send vd vance to run VeneZuela

[Trueblue1968]

21. Send vd Vance to run the garbage collections

[sop]

27. Trump should become the new Venezuelan ruler.

[Kennah]

29. He can barely run a fever

[Marthe48]

2. changing from pedo felon traitor to juvenile delinquent is like

crapping your pants and changing your shirt

From my nephew

[Irish_Dem]

3. The truth is that Trump did not want Vance present for some reason.

The security concern story is a lie.

[Farmer-Rick]

7. Yeah, Vance isn't in the loop anymore

Is that because the gouhl, Stephen Miller, is now directing demented pedo Trump?

But it doesn't really matter. You can never predict what a racist, demented, psychopathic pedophile is going to do next.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Of course you can predict what a psychopath will do.

The best predictor of future behavior is past and present behavior. Trump is a ruthless, brutal psychopath criminal. He will continue this behavior.

Psychological profiling is a well established tool used by law-enforcement, CIA, and other national security agencies.

The professional mental health community has been predicting what Trump will do for many years now. No one listened and no one cared.

[Farmer-Rick]

9. You can predict in very general terms

Can you predict exactly who a serial killer is going to kill next with profiling?

Up to this point pedo Trump had not invaded a foreign country. So his past behavior did not include invasion of foreign nations. You could predict he would continue abusing Venezuela, for fun and profit, but you could not predict exactly what he was going to do.

The professional mental health community has been warning us. But even they never predicted pedo Trump would invade a foreign country.

Pedo Trump's behavior is predictable in a generalized way. But I think at this point, he is so deep into dementia that his behavior is out of control and unpredictable.

But if you have access to what comes next, please share it.

[Irish_Dem]

10. People are in total denial.

People do not want to face reality.

Trump has been talking about invading Venezuela for months.
He has been attacking their property and people.

Trump has been talking about invading Greenland and Mexico.
He has been talking about making Canada an American state.

Trump keeps talking about all the crimes he wants to commit.
And we know full well the crimes he has already committed.

I totally disagree with your comments.

[Farmer-Rick]

11. Even Maduro was taken by surprise

Why do you think that happened?

There have been numerous attacks on his life both from the US and by Machado's political party. It's why the Venezuelan Supreme Court ruled she couldn't run as a candidate for president because of her participation in an attempted assassination and death of protesters in riots she instigated, much like pedo Trump on Jan 6. Maduro was cautious. He knew he was a target. Yet he was taken.

So even the major victims of pedo Trump's crazy behavior did Not see this coming.

I don't totally disagree with your comments. I try to keep an open mind. But pedo Trump's behavior has become unpredictable, abandoning all restraint. We should all expect the worse.

[ananda]

16. Anyone taken by surprise was idiotically clueless..

about what a malignant narcissist will do to boost
his image of strength and the idea of doing something
no other man in his position has ever done...

and in this case, that would be taking over the
resources of several other countries while walking
us back to the good ole days when white supremacy
ruled.

[Farmer-Rick]

35. So your reasoning is simply

That Maduro is an idiot. Well, he could be. Pedo Trump's an idiot and look where he is today.

[Callie1979]

18. Being told "You need to go" 100 times is kind of a CLUE

This should be a surprise to no one.
What comes NEXT? That may be a surprise.

[Farmer-Rick]

20. So how did they catch up with Maduro?

If it was so obvious, how could Maduro have missed it? Things are not as they appear.

[Callie1979]

23. I guess just like Saddam, he never thought we'd REALLY do it. He knew the CIA was there

Because trump, as usual, ran his mouth about it. The CIA had tracked everything about him for weeks. Which is funny, since the MAGAverse ALWAYS talks about the "3 letter agencies" especially the CIA, being the main part of their "deep state"

[Irish_Dem]

34. Madero is a fool.

I won't grow soybeans if you don't practice psychology.

[Farmer-Rick]

36. I don't grow soy beans

I mostly raise sheep. The hills and mountains of East Tennessee are perfect for sheep raising. You can farm anything you want. I don't care.

By the way, I do have a degree in Psychology. I just never did anything with it. Ironic huh?

You know what I see? I see people underestimating the threat right in front of their eyes. Just like when Hitler attacked country after country. But this time the war is coming to US shores. We'll be left in pieces like Germany was.

[Bengus81]

37. And...the MSM knows 100 GD% the parallels of Trump to Hitler. But they do have mergers

they want done. Fuck the US,we want billions off of mergers,new jets,new mansions and a new super yacht.

[Farmer-Rick]

38. I actually think some of those stupid tech billionaires

Want to try their skills out on a world war. They think it would be fun. Like a chess game. And they got pedo Trump to do as they say.

[Kennah]

30. Mexico will be his undoing

[ificandream]

14. Bandy X. Lee's book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" was there for all to read.

That book with all the analyses by medical professionals, should have clued everyone in into what he would be up to. It's still a great read. (I love that book I bought all three versions - print, ebook and audio. Listening to the audio is especially disturbing in what it reveals.)

I've recommended it before and I'll do it again here. It's THE book to read on what to expect from Trump.

[yardwork]

13. Well, nearly half the voters listened and cared.

Unfortunately more than half did not. So here we are.

[Callie1979]

25. And now is the time to ask the Dems & independents "why?"

Regaining just 20-30% of them wins in '28
I think we can win back much more. But we must listen. I'm afraid too many refuse to do that.

[Kennah]

31. 152 million voted in a nation of 340 million

There are not 188 million minors, criminals, and others not allowed to vote.

[Polybius]

32. Maybe he opposed the strike and capture

Could have pissed Trump off.

[Irish_Dem]

33. Yes something like that. Or is sending a message that he is done with vance.

[Vinca]

4. Ooooh, they met covertly??? I didn't know JD played golf.

[marble falls]

6. He doesn't, he caddies and polishes TACO's balls.

[Callie1979]

24. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha oh boy.......

[marble falls]

5. And besides, Milania just had the sofas cleaned.

[WyLoochka]

12. This is a Rubio operation - brewing competition for 2028 nomination?

Rubio has been fixated on his Cuban hurts his whole life. He wants to own this as his revenge project, which includes regime change in Cuba.

Rubio would also like to push Vance down the ladder as the fight for succession to the lame duck orange menace heats up.

[lonely bird]

15. Trump is a man-child

Vance is a child, period.

Beyond that?

Republicans do not care about anything beyond power and wealth. They abandoned the Black people when they negotiated the election of 1876. Much like Trump IS the Republican Party now, Lincoln was the Republican Party until he was assasinated.

Since then while there was a liberal wing of the party as exemplified by TR the powers behind the scene were always anti-democracy, anti-labor.

The rise of what the party now is can be traced through several philosophical threads. Among the threads are Russell Kirk, William F. Buckley and Leo Strauss through Goldwater who was useful but now is ignored until Reagan came on the scene. There were the Koch brothers who were anti-American. The John Birch Society as well.

This has been a well planned slow motion coup. The most culpable party in this has been the media followed by the naive, foolish Democratic Party. They could have and should have been screaming this from the mountaintop.

Imo, Trump won’t complete his term. He will die, be shunted off the stage with some title and ceremonial “job” or be removed by a palace coup quietly (figure claims of a stroke or heart attack).

The other pathetic party who is too blame is the electorate. Sure, the electoral college which needs to be scrapped had blame. The people are to blame.

There will be books written about this for years.

[Callie1979]

17. Vance has gotten too close to Erika Kirk & TRUMP wants to be REALLY close to her.

Because come on, she's hot. So she may be the next attorney general or some other such bullshit.
Plus, nobody LIKES vance.

[thought crime]

19. Whitehouse Apprentice: Vance vs Rubio

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Rubio stars in the new Venezuelan Episode, leaving Vance frozen out on the Greenland Beat.
Will Venezuelan Oil trump Greenland’s Rare Earths?
Can Rubio turn a “shit-hole” country into a Caribbean Riviera? Casinos? After all, the cocaine is already there!

In a yet to be aired Episode the Naval Armada sails North to "protect the polar bears".
Can Vance create golf greens in Greenland? Uh-Oh…
Okay, how about Climate Change Hedge Bunkers for Billionaires?

I think Vance has some work to do.

[duckworth969]

22. Miller trying to box Vance out

[Raven123]

26. Sounds like Vance is feeling left out. They could have flown him in for the presser.

Not kidding anyone

[Blue Owl]

28. He's being briefed by Peter Thiel on his next course of action