Trump throws JD Vance 'under the bus' as part of ominous 2028 plot: professor

Vice President JD Vance left Pakistan empty-handed Sunday after 21 hours of “intensive talks” with Iranian officials in a failed attempt to negotiate an end to the U.S. war against Iran — and journalist and professor Adam Cochran suspects the doomed peace talks went exactly as planned.

President Donald Trump assigned Vance to lead negotiations with Iran as part of a U.S. delegation including special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. The delegation ultimately failed to reach an agreement with Tehran, with Vance telling members of the media that Iranian officials had “chosen not to accept our terms.”

While talks were underway, Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were attending an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) match in Florida, which, according to Cochran, appeared to be by design.

“[Vance] realizes Trump hung him out to dry while Marco got to go to UFC. And he knows how bad all this is,” Cochran, an adjunct professor of information science at Conestoga College in Ontario, Canada, wrote in a social media post on X to his nearly 300,000 followers. “Today Vance realized the deal he made with the devil was not worth it. And that he probably doesn’t have a way out.”

As to why Trump had his secretary of state accompany him to a high-profile fighting match rather than take part in the high-stakes negotiations with Tehran, Cochran proposed a theory, and one that aligns with reports that Vance’s apparent opposition to the U.S. war with Iran has created a rift with the president.

“Trump clearly knew earlier he had no deal. That’s why he said he didn’t care. He just threw Vance under the bus,” Cochran wrote in a separate social media post.

“[This] also cements Vance’s career most likely – it would not surprise me if Vance was set up to fail so they could cleanly push Rubio in ‘28. Would also explain why the odd decision to not have the Secretary of State anywhere near these discussions."