J.D. Vance's Response to Trump Shooting Just Got More Dangerous

[Eugene]

Source: The New Republic

J.D. Vance’s Response to Trump Shooting Just Got More Dangerous

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Tue, September 17, 2024 at 2:42 PM EDT·2 min read

J.D. Vance can’t have it both ways.

The Republican vice presidential nominee has spent considerable time touting violent rhetoric: He has elevated a dangerous conspiracy theory that Haitian migrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, and baselessly insisted that liberal leaders are the ones inciting attempted assassinations against Donald Trump. (Thomas Matthew Crooks, who shot at Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on July 13, was a registered Republican. Ryan Wesley Routh, who attempted to shoot Trump at one of his golf courses on Sunday, voted for Trump in 2016 and supported a Nikki Haley-Vivek Ramaswamy Republican ticket.)

But while speaking before a crowd in Sparta, Michigan, on Tuesday, Vance tried to frame himself as someone above the noise, blaming President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the divisive attacks.

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But just moments later, Vance was back on his usual grind. He likened Harris’s social policies to a “path of slavery,” and even challenged an imaginary assassin to break into the convention center where he was speaking to face off against a crowd of Trump supporters.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/news/j-d-vance-response-trump-184238871.html

[Skittles]

1. it's like he is competing with Trump for the loony prize

[kwolf68]

2. Do these people NOT see?

Their blatant hypocrisy?

I honestly don't know. I chalk it up to two options

1-They know they are full of shit on hypocrites and will say/do anything to get the levers of power

2-Them calling Democrats Communists or Marxists isn't hateful because in their mind it is true. They are really not fascists so it's not the same.

Either way, I hate these people.

[bullimiami]

3. They are full of shit.