Brunswick Beacon, 10.10.24
JD Vance is historically unpopular. He said kids are better off if mothers stay with husbands who beat them. He called women without babies “childless cat ladies” and suggested that their votes should count less. That was so offensive that Fox News’ Trey Gowdy felt compelled to leap to the defense of nuns.
But Vance’s unapologetic lying truly sets him apart. When neo-Nazis lied about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio eating their neighbors’ pets, Vance repeated the lie. When Springfield’s Republican Mayor and Ohio’s Republican governor debunked it and begged Vance to stop, he refused. “If I have to create stories, then that’s what I’m going to do,” Vance confessed. “You just said this is a story you created,” said a shocked interviewer. “Yes,” Vance replied. Vance will literally say anything to get what he wants.
In 2016, Vance said, “I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy.” He called Trump “cultural heroin” and “an idiot” who is “unfit for our nation’s highest office,” adding, “I can’t stomach Trump.” Vance said Trump was “leading the white working class to a very dark place,” and accused Trump of being “America’s Hitler.”
In 2024, when Vance saw the chance to become Trump’s VP, he flip-flopped. “I was wrong,” declared Vance, claiming he was duped by the media until he realized that Trump “delivered for the American people.”
But that was just another lie. Vance told an acquaintance in 2020 that Biden would beat Trump because “Trump has just so thoroughly failed to deliver.”
CNN’s fact-checker found that Vance lied throughout the debate. “I never supported a national ban” on abortion, Vance lied, despite the fact that there’s audio of him in 2022 saying, “I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally.”
And, when Walz asked him “Did Trump lose the 2020 election?” Vance wouldn’t answer. “That’s a damning non-answer,” said Walz.
Trump thought so, too. Two days later, Vance falsely claimed that Trump won.
Laura McGann
Leland
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