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You’ve probably already learned that Ohio Senator J. D. Vance is officially Donald Trump’s running mate for 2024. Given that Vance’s call had long been on the short list of candidates Trump was contemplating for the job, the news doesn’t deserve to be so surprising. But there’s one user for whom this will definitely come as a shock: the J. D. Vance from just a few years ago, who had several terrible things to say about Trump and literally called himself Never TrumperArray.
Yes, before choosing to bury his principles in a shallow grave, Vance saw Trump for what he was: a harmful individual who had no business governing the country. Today, the senator says things like, “What an honor it is to stand alongside President Donald J. Trump,” and, when asked about his incredibly negative comments about his new boss, he says the media misled him:
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But at that moment? He thought Trump was one of the worst people ever. So, for the record, here’s what Vance had to say about Trump before he started making an incredibly different song.
In 2016, Vance sent a message to his law school roommate in which he wrote that he “goes back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical. . . or that he is the American Hitler,” according to a screenshot shared through the ex. roommate in 2022.
In February 2016, Vance liked a tweet containing a photo of Trump and O. J. Simpson who said, “Here’s an old picture of one of the most hated, meanest, stupidest celebrities in United States. “Also pictured: O. J. Simpson.
In an April 2016 op-ed for the New York Times, Vance wrote, “Mr. Trump is not a match for the highest office in our country.
During a 2016 interview, Kentucky radio host Matt Jones told Vance, “I can’t stand Trump because I think he’s a fraud. . . I think it’s a fraud in general that exploits those people. “Vance replied, “Me too. . . I don’t think he cares about people. “
Speaking to NPR’s Terry Gross in August 2016, Vance said, “I think I’m going to vote third party because I can’t stand Trump. I think he’s destructive and takes white elegance to a very dark place. “
“I’m a guy who says ‘Never Trump. ‘ I liked him,” Vance told Charlie Rose in October 2016.
That same month, Vance wrote on Twitter: “Trump scares the other people I care about. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. For this reason I consider it objectionable. God needs more of us.
“Oh my God, what an idiot,” Vance wrote on Twitter in 2016, referring to Trump.
In 2017, Vance messaged a friend from law school to discuss his opposition to the American Health Care Act, the law Republicans need to update Obamacare. Discussing a conceivable long-term run as a senator, Vance wrote: “Can you believe running as an anti-AHCA populist who thinks Trump is an ethical disaster? Where is my constituency?
After the Access Hollywood tape was released, Vance liked a tweet that read, “Maybe the Central Park Five can run a full-page ad condemning the real estate gentlemen who hug and engage in sexual assaults on the show. “(Trump ran full-page classified ads in four New York City newspapers, calling for the state’s adoption of the death penalty following the 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park; he never directly verified the organization’s call. of young men nicknamed the Central Park Five, who were later exonerated, but many clearly referred to them).
Also in 2016, when asked about an allegation through Jessica Leeds, who said Trump groped her, Vance replied, “It’s kind of him—he said, she—he said, right?And in the end, do you believe Donald Trump, who says to the Right?Or do you believe that woman in the film?
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