Trump running mate and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) has reportedly been preparing for his upcoming vice presidential debate with Monica Crowley, a right-wing commentator and Trump campaign surrogate who also contributed to the Project 2025 transition plan for the next Republican administration.

Crowley has attacked Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), Vance's debate opponent, with incendiary rhetoric, including claiming that he views “chaos, death, and destruction as necessary tools to advance the revolution” and arguing that his ideology is the same as “what Nazi Germany did with the Jews.”

Crowley, who worked in the Trump administration as an assistant Treasury secretary, has a long history of extreme rhetoric. (Media Matters also documented her extreme commentaries on abortion.) This year alone, she has continued to push a number of conspiracy theories and toxic remarks. They include: 

• Crowley: Tim Walz is “a fully committed Marxist” who views “chaos, death, and destruction as necessary tools to advance the revolution”; Walz’s ideology is “what Nazi Germany did with the Jews.” 
• Crowley claimed that there is a sprawling “deep state” that has been trying to destroy Donald Trump through COVID-19 (“released on purpose”), “rigged” elections, and the recent attempt on his life.
• Crowley has repeatedly suggested that the deep state has tried to assassinate Trump.
• Crowley claimed Haitian migrants “have a completely alien culture, do not speak the language, don't abide by our rules, are not assimilating in any way. … Yes, they're eating the cats and the dogs.” 
• Crowley claimed that Democrats are trying “to flood the country with illegal immigrants in order to collapse the system, get a permanent Democrat voting majority.”
• Crowley portrayed mass shootings as a way that the deep state is trying “to distract you.” 
• Crowley: “I've been trying to come up with different scenarios that they can spring on us, including possibly expiring Joe Biden.”
• Crowley: The “regime” needs “the chaos. That's why they set up false flag operations. That's why they do all of this January 6 frame-up.” 
• Crowley has already alleged that Pennsylvania is stealing the 2024 election. 

Crowley: Tim Walz is “a fully committed Marxist” who views “chaos, death, and destruction as necessary tools to advance the revolution”; Walz’s ideology is “what Nazi Germany did with the Jews.” On August 6, shortly after Harris picked Walz as her running mate, Crowley went on an extended rant about the Minnesota Democrat’s alleged extremism. At one point, she said: “Marxists view the chaos, death, and destruction as necessary tools to advance the revolution. That's who Tim Walz is.” She later compared Walz’s ideology to “what Nazi Germany did with the Jews and others, dehumanized them, turn them into pigs, and in Walz's word, cows. You dehumanize people.” 

Crowley claimed that there is a sprawling “deep state” that has been trying to destroy Donald Trump through COVID-19 (“released on purpose”), “rigged” elections, and the recent attempt on his life. In Crowley’s telling, there is a large conspiracy of deep state operatives who have been trying to destroy Trump for years. Their actions against Trump include: the “rigged election” in 2022; the “election crimes” of 2020; the events of January 6, 2021; COVID-19, which was “released on purpose”; and the assassination attempt in July. Crowley stated on her July 22 podcast: 

Crowley has repeatedly suggested that the deep state has tried to assassinate Trump. Crowley’s remarks that the deep state attempted to destroy Trump “through the assassination attempt. … through the bullets flying on July 13” was not an aberration. Crowley has suggested in other instances that the deep state has been trying to assassinate Trump. 

• On her September 17 show, she said “the system” has “now twice” tried to take out Trump, and “when you realize that there are elements of your own government that are at war with you, it's a horrifying concept.” She added: “When the system is desperate, it's like a cornered rat. When the system is desperate, it lashes out. And this is why you're seeing multiple assassination attempts against Donald Trump.”
• During her September 5 show, Crowley said: “I thought that the system was more creative. And believe me, they are. But when you start seeing retreads of stuff that worked in the past, like assassination attempts. I mean, they tried to JFK DJT. This time it didn't work.” 
• During an August 29 interview, Crowley and Trump discussed the possibility that the Pennsylvania assassination attempt was an “inside job.” 
• On her July 23 show, while speaking with “intelligence, security and special ops professional Brian O'Shea,” she said: “You suggested that this was intentional, that this was perhaps an inside job. And I think the more we see, the more it clearly it looks like that. That the government trained this guy, that the government brought him in to carry this out.” 
• While speaking as a guest on a show on July 22, she claimed: “When they accuse Donald Trump of being an existential threat to democracy, that lays the rhetorical foundation for the assassination attempt on him. Because if you're an existential threat, it's justified removing him, physically removing him. And Lord knows they've tried everything to this point. So the assassination attempt on Donald Trump actually was the final attempt by the deep state to marginalize him, to set him aside, both physically and politically, because over the last nine years, nothing else has worked.” 

Crowley claimed Haitian migrants “have a completely alien culture, do not speak the language, don't abide by our rules, are not assimilating in any way. … Yes, they're eating the cats and the dogs.” Crowley has promoted the racist conspiracy theory that Haitian migrants are eating pets, which has been heavily advanced by Vance. She stated: “Yes, they're eating the cats and the dogs.” She has also spoken about Haitian migrants with bigoted language, claiming that people have been “dropping 20,000 Haitian migrants who have a completely alien culture, do not speak the language, don't abide by our rules, are not assimilating in any way.” From the September 19 edition of her podcast:  

Crowley claimed that Democrats are trying “to flood the country with illegal immigrants in order to collapse the system, get a permanent Democrat voting majority.” Crowley has pushed the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, the white nationalist trope which claims that Democrats are purposely replacing people in the country with nonwhites. Crowley said on her podcast on April 10: 

The “Great Reset” is a sprawling conspiracy theory that essentially alleges that global leaders are trying to enact an authoritarian one-world government.  

Crowley portrayed mass shootings as a way that the deep state is trying “to distract you.” During her podcast on February 15, Crowley referenced recent mass shootings and brought up “speculation that a lot of this stuff is a big distraction enterprise.” She also said, “When we say ‘wag the dog,’ it's not just national security and wars that they're setting up to distract you.” 

She added: “I don't know. I don't know. But there is a lot going on under the surface.” She also said: “I know it's very difficult to process this idea that your own president wants something to happen or will arrange for something to happen.” 

Crowley: “I've been trying to come up with different scenarios that they can spring on us, including possibly expiring Joe Biden.” Crowley interviewed musician John Rich during her September 19 show about what could happen in the coming weeks of the campaign. The conversation shifted to discussing if Kamala Harris didn’t fare well politically in the race and was removed, prompting Crowley to speculate about “different scenarios that they can spring on us, including possibly expiring Joe Biden.” 

Crowley: The “regime” needs “the chaos. That's why they set up false flag operations. That's why they do all of this January 6 frame-up.” Crowley claimed during her July 30 program that the “regime” has “set up false flag operations” and called the January 6 insurrection a “frame-up.”

Crowley has already alleged that Pennsylvania is stealing the 2024 election. As Media Matters previously documented, Crowley said on her September 5 podcast: