I’m glad I waited before sharing the following analysis because I’m not as concerned today as I was when I originally read the Guardian article. Yesterday, The Guardian reported that Donald Trump Jr would be introducing the VP nominee at the RNC convention. According to them, that could indicate a strong likelihood of JD Vance as the nominee. That would be horrible.
However, what’s really happening is that Don Jr’s speech and intro is really just talking before the VP nominee makes his/her remarks. The VP will be announced days before the convention itself; so, it’s a sequencing thing. Maybe not JD Vance, and that’s a good thing.
There is, however, an unfortunate aspect to the articles predictions that is currently surfacing all over the media.
The top 3 finalists, according to a bazillion clickbait articles, are JD Vance, Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum. I have tried to stay away from the VP discussion because, well, it’s basically a clickbait conversation. Also, because if Donald Trump has not made up his mind months ago, then we are in more trouble than just the worry of a VP who might impede swamp draining.
If I have any accurate arrows of faith or pragmatic hope left in my quiver, then I am correct in thinking that Donald Trump made this decision a long time ago, and the Vice President nominee has long known exactly what the plan is. If my “begin with the end in mind” thinking is incorrect; well, then we’re in bigger trouble than 99% of MAGA Americans can fathom.
Having said that, I hope none of the aforementioned names are accurate, because the very specific and current attributes we need for what is going to be a 15-year generational effort in our Constitutional Republic are not held by either Vance, Burgum or certainly not Rubio.
Every consideration of the VP selection MUST pass through the prism of knowing who the malevolent enemy we are facing truly is, the Intelligence Community, the Fourth Branch of Government.
If President Trump hasn’t/doesn’t game out every step with a thorough and comprehensive understanding of who the enemy is, then the problem will never be solved.
The dangerous Intelligence Community (IC) to be faced is Six Eyes, not Five, with one historically never discussed.
Worse still, they just launched the Seventh Eye in anticipation of Trump winning in November.
Yes, that’s correct. At the same non-accidental time the IC decided Joe Biden was their least hopeful option, an actual risk – which was additionally triggered by the recent SCOTUS ruling, the global IC power structure launched a proactive Seventh Eye {SEE HERE} for the purpose of attacking the risk Trump represents and defending themselves. [Now do you see why I have spent the past eight months physically crisscrossing their network?]
A true ‘begin with the end in mind’ approach to deconstructing this domestic and geopolitical mess, which is to say an honest perspective about the root cause of our metastatic symptoms, requires admitting to ourselves that any VP nomination to stand beside President Trump must come with a specific set of traits.
From that perspective to find who is best, we must consider who has the least amount of attack vectors the enemy can exploit. That approach disqualifies Burgum, Vance and most certainly Rubio.
An attack vector is a vulnerability for the IC to exploit. An attack vector can be preexisting, or it can simply be a place where pressure applied creates a vulnerability.
The greater the attack vector potential of the individual, the more distant from the center (the office of the presidency) the person must be. The greater the attack vector potential, the less importance on the tasks assigned. This doesn’t mean people with attack vectors should be disqualified from operations, it only means you consider the vulnerability up front and don’t assign them to critical or high-priority functions.
A 2016 example of a person loaded with inherent attack vectors -as an outcome of personality, disposition and inherent life- was Nikki Haley. Dispatching Haley to the irrelevant United Nations was perfect. The bonus within the move was Mrs. Haley thinking it would improve her resume’.
A 2016 example of a person loaded with inherent attack vectors that was put into the wrong place, was Michael Flynn. Factually, Flynn was hiding his financial arrangements with Turkey as an unregistered lobbyist. The IC knew that vulnerability as they watched him throughout the campaign. When Trump won the election and then soon after announced Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor, for the IC enemy that was awesome news. That’s how attack vectors are exploited, and Trump suffered the damage.
Attack Vectors should be the primary prism that determines placement. Attack vectors can also be mitigated and diffused with brutal honesty and sunlight upon secrets. The threat within attack vectors increases in direct proportion to the lies that hide them.
JD Vance with a solid Yale curriculum vitae, was a rabid Never Trumper, until something in his life timeline happened simultaneously to his financial benefactor billionaire Peter Theil becoming an FBI informant.
[Putting aside the Theil and Vance direct connection to Vivek Ramaswamy for a moment] Peter Theil becomes aligned with the FBI and suddenly the guy getting Theil’s money for politics, has nothing but praise for Donald Trump.
Trust your instincts.
Remember when I said the 2015 operation for Jeb Bush was going to involve a massive vote splitting operation, because the people organizing Jeb could only affirm about 20% of the base vote in the primary? Well?…
In 2016 I said they would need more than a dozen to pull off the Jeb operation; they brought 14. The republican nominee who won was the last man to enter, #15, the one they did not control. That is not accidental.
Remember back in 2019 when I said ballots were more important than votes and Trump needed to ditch Ronna McDaniel and hire Catherine Englebrecht as RNC chair with a major sense of urgency. Well?…
Remember when I said, “watch out” in 2022 because the same Sea Island network active in 2015 and 2020 was organizing a conservative voice influence operation for DeSantis in 2024, because I could see all the hallmarks of conservatives being conscripted and paid for participating (their attack vector of vulnerability), and people angrily said I was nuts. Well?…
I’m not looking at the current landscape, I’m out here with a well-worn machete looking at where we are heading. And I’m telling you those same systems, voices and financial networks have deployed that same financial conscription effort for JD Vance.
This is not conspiracy theory, it’s simply what a select group of ideological and compromised billionaires do in response to their own attack vectors and vulnerabilities. Robert and Rebekah Mercer did it with Ted Cruz and duped millions. The current attack vector assisting in the positioning of Vance, an attack vector previously exploited by the IC in their creation of the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense, is the only guy in the Trump family that wears pink shirts.
Marco Rubio is easily one of the most compromised names on the “short list” with attack vectors going way back in his history including his compromise with the Kelly sisters around CENTCOM in Tampa, Florida. [LINK]
The same Lebanese based IC group who took out General Petraeus when he became a threat to them (Benghazi), and the same IC group who used the same zipper compromise against General John Allen [LINK] using the same network. Remember the ICs non-ISIS/ISIS campaign.
They have already compromised Rubio; it wasn’t hard.
Those background issues don’t even include Marco Rubio’s willful participation in the use of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) to attack the prior four years of the Trump administration through the use of the Trump-Russia nonsense.
Have you ever, even once, seen Vice Chairman Rubio cast even a side-eye of incredulity toward the malevolence of the U.S. intelligence apparatus. Of course you haven’t. He simply can’t do it; they own him.
Can a second President Trump term be successful with Rubio, Vance or Burgum? Of course it can; heck, we saw the success of Donald Trump even with Mike Pence constantly undermining him in the background.
Yes, the economy can thrive, global peace can return, the threat of a dollar-based central bank digital currency will diminish, domestic energy production and self-sufficiency will reemerge, and the lives and livelihoods of every American can improve in a second Trump term simply by the execution of pragmatic commonsense policy. That’s not what I am talking about.
If Trump picks a Rubio, Vance or Burgum type VP the Fourth Branch of Government simply goes into a period of static fermentation within the global swamp, simultaneously spewing toxic gas but not directly f**king with us. However, as soon as that 4-year term is over, they restart the process and the decade of the 30’s leaves us with less freedom, more restrictions and a bigger toxic system of Western government surveillance.
We need four years of furious sandblasting the bondo and paint from our Republic, before we can even begin to contemplate a restoration process in 2028, and that presidential nominee -the intermediate finisher- might not even be a person who is in politics right now. I trust President Trump to select that person based on the status of the restoration at the time that decision needs to be made.
What we need right now is a vice-presidential nominee who has the least amount of pre-existing or potential attack vectors that can be exploited by the IC.
The collective effort of the Western Intelligence apparatus over the next four-year Trump term, will be to keep the illusion of democracy in place, and stop people from seeing the cold, hard reality of the putrid rot beneath it.
We need a guiding hand, a faithful servant, who will calm the nerves of the American people, many of whom will see – perhaps for the first time, exactly how bad it has become. Because what we are going to witness in the next four-years is going to be very ugly.
As these malevolent entities are dragged into the sunlight and revealed, we also need a steadfast partner grounded in something far more valuable than popular prose or catch phrase linguistics.
While Trump is tearing it all apart, we need a guide, a partner, a steadfast centered voice that will help our Republic make shame great again.
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Like I said, I hope this is all moot and the decision was made long ago.
Dr. Ben Carson does not come without attack vectors; however, to his credit he admits them. Heck, the IC previously used Dr Carson virtues against him, that’s why Ms. Cheney was guided to be his 2016 campaign manager. They want you to forget or not know that.
You see, what the IC does at its most evil level is to exploit virtue as a weapon. Love and trust are used against the target. Do you love your family, it’d be a shame if something happened to them. However, when you have faith, you understand that God also knows how evil works in this exploitation, that’s why He favored David.
My advice, trust your instincts.
Then pray.
Love to all.


Why doesn’t Devin Nunes get much love? He has gone through the fire and came out intact. He also has been in tech with Truth social. He would be impeachment insurance to some degree. He is also younger and could provide two additional terms of an America first agenda.
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He’s busy. CEO of Truth Social.
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I’ve seen Dr Carson speak in person, he doesn’t inspire me. Monotone in his delivery and low energy although he was passionate. Nunes has been my pick. Running Truth has been Apprentice on steroids for Trump to assess his his skill set
Not a good sign…
“Ben Carson says he hasn’t spoken to Trump about being vice president, but they have discussed saving the country”
https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1811934610659463211
(He doesn’t strike me as the bluffing type. Hope to be wrong!)
I want Devin Nunes!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you – I wish I had discovered TCH years before I did. Because this is a lot to sort through. You give a lot of explanation, but that’s against a lifetime of thinking this person is good, that person is bad, this person is probably good because they hang around with the other good person, this person is probably good because they say pro-life things (so why don’t they ever do anything pro-life when they get to Washington?)
I knew there was a problem either with our government or my perception of it. I knew a lot about the IC. Yet I still thought George Bush was a good guy just a couple years ago. At a meeting of concerned citizens, I was shocked that I must have fallen into a den of conspiracy theorists when they started criticizing him!
So much to learn and reassemble in my mind. So little time to do it.
Welp ya know maybe the answer is a VP with no future political ambitions. Takes away one very large (what was it SD called them) “attack vectors”! We had better get the next 4 years right or 2028 will just be the “Return of the Empire”. Dr Carson has some interesting advantages. Maybe there is another Donald Trump out there who is, like our founders, willing to sacrifice His /Her Life, Fortune and Sacred Honor for the benefit of the country. We live in interesting times. May God bless the Republic.
Agreed. Uncle Ben for VP
I know no one is reading these comments anymore, but I read in a comment a few weeks ago (on another site) that the wrong people were able to get close to and influence President Trump due to his scheduler. I believe her name is Susie Wiles or something like that.
I’ve been thinking a RINO who influences who gets close could certainly make a difference in his chosen personnel.
JD Vance would be a great VP pick
Did you also think DeSantis would have made a great president in 2024?
I am so tired of deception.
Did she even read?
Maybe she should just vote for Biden . . .
So, the deciders have said, we already know JD sucks. Why? Cuz Sundance says so? Opinions based on ????
Predicting is hard, especially about the future.
Vance is a no for 3 reasons.
1) He was an outspoken anti-Trumper before. His conversion was concurrent with his financial backer showing links to the FBI.
2) He is a conservative Senator, not a RINO, which Trump will sorely need in the Senate. A RINO Gov (DeWine) would name his replacement, naming himself. Trump does not need more RINO Senators.
3) He brings little to the table. Ohio is already +12 Trump. He will not help down ticket anywhere.
He reminds me of a civil war General.
Rand Paul is the very best choice IMHO; but would be just as pleased with Flynn or Rogers – good ages and military backgrounds……and the name Michael has just the right amount of ‘fighting for what is right’ symbolism for the upcoming Religious battles.
But I think it will be Carson, I much rather a fighter than a ‘good, sweet guy’ BUT…..
Ben Carson will be the VP. Trump the “producer” knows that he is perfect for this role. Unlike everyone else on the “candidate list” he’ll never “compete” with Trump for the spotlight. He brings wisdom and credibility to the office rather than notoriety and ego. He will also amplify the already strong Black vote for Trump. He is thoughtful, super smart and would be a great balance for Trump’s personality. Dr. Carson would also make a terrific President. He’s definitely the right pick.
Additionally, he would, I think, be good at addressing the lefty (mostly) loonies, attacking our country right now. I think his calm demeanor would definitely help in SO many ways. And, I think he sees both the macro- and micro- views!
to put it simply, President Trump needs to pick someone who has the cojones to fight
against the deep state regime, the intelligence to navigate through the path of evil
and corruption and continue President trump’s MAGA agenda as hopefully he/she
will become president in 2028. Notwithstanding realizing the importance of
identifying the wolves in sheep’s clothing in the republican party.
The question is – who fits the criteria?
We need a VP who can go on to be President in 2028. The GOP bench isn’t much better off than the Dem’s bench, and includes losers and some who are ineligible, but it also includes one who hates the Dems. That’s Tulsi. She would have Trump’s back at all times.
Some *** here called her a communist.
How many communists enlisted less than a month after the invasion of Iraq? Then volunteered to serve in Iraq, even though it meant giving up her seat in the Hawaiian legislature. Gabbard did. No rational person who has read her book or listened to her interviews since ’21 would consider her a leftist, much less a communist.
Whether you think she should be the VP choice or not, calling her a communist is Alinsky at his worst.
My vote goes with JFK JR.
No way ever!
Heh. Hey pally, notice da guy sez ‘JFK’ not RFK Jr!
Ya know, new resident Hillary really, really wanted that junior Senator seat.
Trump is not dumb…we all know that. And, now he knows things, has experienced things, seen and read things and knows who these evil entities are. This truly is a war…..and Trump is a warrior. And I have full trust that he has already picked the right person and it’s not those three. Maybe one of those three are what the corrupt media and establishment want and that’s why they are being put out there front and center. I don’t care for any of them to be VP…especially Rubio….he is a rat, comprimised and controlled!
Just finish listening to Jack Posobiec “s rant on Warroom about people pushing Burgum. (10AM Sat) Jack Posobiec & Charlie Kirk have been using their shows to push JD Vance.
Now Posobiec is bringing on Raheem Kassam on Warroom who I also pushing JD Vance. These guys keep mentioning Vance & Vivek.
Vivek is native born, the same as Nikki and Kamala. They aren’t eligible for national office.
Vivek is also a Thiel agent, isn’t that how he got rich?
I hope Trump, or at least someone advising him, reads treehouse. Sundance–any evidence that he does?
Is there anybody, anybody likes for VP realistically? I do not want Rubio or Burgum. I’m not as anti-Vance or Vivak as many are here.
Why were Trump and Reagan allowed to change their minds and become great president’s, and nobody else is allowed to pass the purity tests?
As great as President Trump was, he made horrible personnel decisions, Pence, Wray, Powell, Sessions, Barr…Rand Paul seems like an incorruptible person that could navigate the senate as its president like few others, he also offers an 8 year capacity to serve as POTUS after DJT’s second term, Ben Carson does not. We need 12 years of MAGA to fix this cess pool
It’s easy to overthink all this, however, maybe there is a strategy to his choice:
– If Trump picks Rubio then his ranking seat on Senate Select Committee on Intelligence may be open to a more favorable person.
-If Trump picks Vance then his wife, whom is employed by Charlie Munger’s law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. , whom would have an inside track on his administration like having Mark Elias in the shadows
-If Trump picks Burgum he would add nothing to the campaign or the party and plenty to avoid with his Microsoft alliance and ‘evolving’ Lgbtqrs’ stance. No room for 2 alphas
-Carson would be excellent; loyal, smart, reserved, and no threat to the boss but also no help in shaping a future farm team to take over after Trump’s 2nd term ends.
–Byron Donalds could single handily remove a large block of the black vote for years to come and prove to be a wrecking ball against entrenched insiders like Clyburn and the Congressional Black Caucus
General Flynn would be the best pic for VP!
Flynn should get the CIA so he can tear it down and remake it. He’s a 3star spook. It would be something he could do well at.
Realizing his IC connections, wonder if Pompeo is in the mix along with Carson & Nunes?? What is Pompeo’s “vector?”
He’s the guy that continued to protect the CIA regarding the JFK assassination. No thanks.
Pompeo’s entire career is his vector. One of the deadliest of the snakes, a one-man threat to humanity’s future.
Whoever President Trump picks it has to be someone who the deep state can’t remove him from office and install their puppet.
I really trust no one but President Trump.
There are a handful of people who I would never question their loyalty to MAGA and PDJT. Carson is one as well as Devin Nunes and Dan Scavino. Everyone on the list for VP I have my suspicions about.
Whose dumb ass idea was it to have Amber Rose speak at the convention. She’s the ex-girlfriend of Kanye West. WHY BRING IN SUCH A CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE TO YOUR CONVENTION!!!! So stupid.
…young black and female voters, especially in Philadelphia. Probably not your demographic but Trump needs PA and is trying to expand his voter base beyond MAGA …which is not stupid.
If he picks anyone even remotely swampy he will most likely not be president long.
Normally on board with you Sundance. Not so here. Vance is an excellent pick.
Vance is a bona fide member of the hoi polloi class. Aristocracy meet working class poor. I think this is going to be an interesting pick and it’s not like Donald has been very adept at picking friends anyway. He has failed many times.
You can find something wrong with EVERYONE and by God that’s all I ever hear.
I’m an attorney and I had a client back in December who is very connected in DC social circles and she told me back then (when Tucker was getting VP hype) that Melania wants Ben Carson as VP. That’s been my prediction ever since.
just an outstanding overview; concise yet in-depth, informative w/out the sermon. i’d be hard pressed to find a near past narrative of yours that was any better
just. outstanding.
I’m sure he would not take the pay cut but I like Tucker Carlson for VP.
God bless him but Sundance’s remarks can seem somewhat cryptic to me at times, or at least geared towards people who’ve read, followed and understood his every word. Don’t get me wrong, I blame myself for any obtuseness. SO, I don’t quite follow why Vance is so onerous a choice. I’ve read on other sites that Thiel is apparently disenchanted with Trump, unlike in 2016, but I don’t know exactly why. So the Thiel-Vance connection is still a mystery to me as far as how it casts suspicion on Vance.
I wouldn’t want Doug Burgum, Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, (Mike Pompeo’s been promoted too) for obvious reasons but Ben Carson doesn’t seem like he would want the VP job – but will no doubt serve in the Cabinet somehow. If Elise Stefanik weren’t one to always vote along with the perpetual warmongers I’d like her better. Vance’s stance against the Ukraine War has been appealing to me and has set him apart from many Republicans. Any enlightenment about this would be welcomed!
JD Vance, despite his blue collar family pedigree, is a naturalized member of the East Coast elite. I loved his book Hillbilly Elegy where he described in gripping terms the plight of “the forgotten men and women” of the American working class. However there is an undertone of superiority and even contempt for his Scots-Irish ancestors. He speaks of them as credulous fools who believe social media lies about President Obama, just one example.
I was disappointed when he came out as a never Trumper, but his experience at Yale Law School is the real formative experience that defines who he is today.
Vance knows the language of We The People in flyover country, but he’s a member of the class that flies over.
All this wailing and gnashing of teeth(me included) over who the pick will be I think is a waste of time. President Trump has a vetting process in place and all the warts of these so called front runners have been duly noted for him. If we know the warts, so does he. If he hasn’t learned by now how dirty the opposition plays, he’s not the guy anyway. And, I think he is.
As much as I like BC he doesn’t have that fighting personality I believe is needed for 2028 and beyond. The fight will still be ongoing at that time and anything less than a double -fisted brawler (like Trump) will succumb to the RINOs and Uniparty. I like Vivek for this but I honestly don’t know about his “attack vectors.”
Carson doesn’t need a fighting personality. There is no reason to believe that a VP has to run for president after his term as VP. For some reason this has become an acceptable outcome just because it’s been done in the past. Anyone could run as a Republican after Trump’s term and all they would need is for Trump to endorse and help them.
Great article SD but who do you suggest instead? That would be very helpful. Just your suggestions or thoughts as to who might make the cut.
In my opnion and based on your excellent article:
Stefanik. No. Too establishment friendly; what has she done in leadership to move Johnson on major issues? I know of nothing. Great interrogator though.
Rubio. No.
Burgum. No.
Rand Paul. Yes.
JD Vance. Maybe. Does he have loyalty to that billionaire still? Or to the country and MAGA?
Carson. Yes. Loyalty is something to always reward.
Nunes. Yes.
Vivek. No. Same billionaire friend problem.
Tulsi. No she is a democrat at heart.
Byron Donalds. Yes. Smart, but at times he seems like a go along to get along guy. When he fights though, watch out! I like him slightly better than JD because we do not see any billionaire friends in his circle of friends that I know of .
Scott. No.
Tucker. No.
For laughs and giggles. Alex Jones. No.
Navarro. YES!!!I think he is also Cuban so that may be a bonus. If he speaks Spanish we would lock up the Latino vote block.
Flynn: No. (Yes until I found out that he was playing some games with delegates, I believe it was Michigan). Still a good guy for intel agency head.
Mark Robinson. Yes.
Whoever was in charge of the secret service detailed should be packing his bags as we speak!
I keep wondering if General Mike Flynn is too “damaged” after the first fiasco to be a high level cabinet member.
I would love for him to be VP or SOS