"I was hoping Jose Padilla would be here to ask a question, but unfortunately I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn't the theater," Vance said, deriding Padilla's handcuffing at Noem's briefing the prior week as "pure political theater.

Vance's press secretary, Taylor Van Kirk, said that the vice president misspoke and "must have mixed up two people who have broken the law.""

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"California Democrats were having none of it.

"JD Vance served with Alex Padilla in the United States Senate," Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a post on X. "Calling him Jose Padilla' is not an accident."

Padilla also addressed his former Senate colleague-turned vice president directly in a post to X, flipping Vance's jab about "political theater" back at him.

"You know my name, @JDVance," the California senator wrote. "If you want to talk about political theater, let's start with the thousands of troops that your administration is using as props in Los Angeles."

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OH, it's true... this is all fun and games theatre to Trump's Gestapo Gang; another spin-off TV production from Trump's first TV series.

And it werks because the Cultists can't tell reality from TV; there is no longer any objective facts or truth for them... there's only Truth Social.