Most Americans have long lost any delusion that the mainstream press, whether at home or abroad, can possibly remain unbiased … particularly in the era of President Donald Trump.

But one reporter for The Independent took the journalistic browbeating a step further during a press conference with Vice President JD Vance, asking a verbose question dripping with animus. 

To his credit, Vance didn’t take the bait and instead called out the disingenuous behavior.

As Breitbart reported:

The reporter, Andrew Feinberg of the Independent, spent nearly one and a half minutes and about 175 words to ask his question, alleging that President Donald Trump “seems to be talking up stocks that he owns, selling them, and enriching himself.”

During Feinberg’s wind-up, Vance called it a “hell of a question.”

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“Let me answer your question here. That was a doozy,” Vance said. “Before I answer your question, I want to just observe there are different ways to ask a question, okay.”

“You can just ask a question, try to get your answer, or you could do like a speech where you say, ‘You know Mr. Vice President… you know you’re a terrible human being and so is the president and so is the entire cabinet,’ and then I’m like ‘What’s your question,’ and then your question is ‘How dare you.’ Come on, man, have a little bit of objectivity in the way that you ask these questions because there were a lot of things in that speech masquerading as a question that didn’t actually get asked,” Vance added.

Vance then answered Feinberg’s question.

A White House-linked X account highlighted the exchange:

 

Other social media users expressed similar approval of the vice president’s response:

 

Here’s a relevant segment from the post above:

Feinberg: The President’s financial disclosures were released recently, and they showed a lot of stock trades in companies that he has talked up at events, official events at the White House, on his Truth Social account, sometimes even putting the stock ticker symbols in his posts and encouraging people to buy their stock. Americans, according to recent polling, are increasingly describing the president as corrupt and trading stocks—

Vance: This is a hell of a question.

Feinberg: Trading individual stocks is something that you have said that public officials should not be able to do when you ran for senate all those years ago, and yet the president, who arguably has access to more non-public information than your average senator, is not only buying and selling individual stocks, either through his, through his trust—

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Vance: Okay, what’s the question?

Feinberg: The question is, the question, sir, is how can you and your administration argue to Americans that you’re cleaning up corruption, you’re preventing fraud, you’re fighting the sorts of things that harm people and people’s financial situations when the president seems to be talking up stocks that he owns, selling them and enriching himself?

Vance: Okay, so here, let me, let me, let me answer your question here. That was a doozy. Before I answer your question, I want to just observe there are different ways to ask a question, okay? You can just ask a question and try to get your answer, or you could do like a speech, where you say, you know, “Mr. Vice President, you know, you’re a terrible human being, and so is the President, so is the entire cabinet.” And then I’m like, “What’s your question?” And then your question is, “How dare you?” Come on, man. Have a little bit of objectivity in the way that you ask these questions, because there were a lot of things in that speech masquerading as a question that didn’t actually get asked, okay?

Number one, the president doesn’t sit at the Oval Office on his computer on his, like, Robinhood account, buying and selling stocks. That’s absurd. He has independent wealth advisors who manage his money. He is a wealthy person. He has had success in business. He’s not making these stock trades himself. And your question imputes that. It sort of, it doesn’t say it exactly, but a reasonable person listening to that question would assume the President is sitting around doing that. He’s not!

Second of all, you’re right, I’m a big fan of banning members of Congress from trading stocks. So is the President of the United States. And all of us believe that nobody should be taking proprietary information gained from public service and buying and selling stocks. We want to ban— we want to ban that. We want to ban that process, and I think the way to lead by example is banning that process, banning that approach, and making it illegal, which is exactly what the President has proposed doing.

Mediaite also covered the viral moment:

The vice president then blasted reporters for giving political speeches rather than asking questions, accusing Feinberg of personally attacking him and the president before wrapping up his thoughts.

Vance argued Trump’s stock trades are made by financial advisors and maintained that the administration still supports banning members of Congress from trading in individual stocks.

And here’s some additional commentary:

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