Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance is happily touting his new endorsement from former President Donald Trump even though he once wondered whether Trump is Americas Hitler, according to a Georgia state lawmaker who attended law school with Vance.
It is time for the entire MAGA movement ... to unite behind J.D.s campaign, Trump said last week about the venture capitalist and Hillbilly Elegy author who has never held public office.
Vance is featuring the endorsement in a new statewide campaign ad even though he once railed against Trump as noxious and an idiot.
But the most damning dig to surface is Vances apparent comparison of Trump to Adolf Hitler (and Richard Nixon).
Vances onetime Yale Law School roommate, Democratic Georgia state Rep. Josh McLaurin, posted a 2016 Facebook message from Vance on Twitter to expose the magnitude of this guys bad faith, McLaurin tweeted.
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According to the message, Vance bashed Trump as the fruit of the Republican Party s collective neglect and added: I go back and forth to thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon ... or that hes Americas Hitler. Hows that for discouraging?
The screenshot below is @JDVance1s unfiltered explanation from 2016 of the breakdown in Republican politics that he now personally is trying to exploit.
The Americas Hitler bit is at the end.
The public deserves to know the magnitude of this guys bad faith. pic.twitter.com/79Z0qSWFWF
The screenshot below is @JDVance1 s unfiltered explanation from 2016 of the breakdown in Republican politics that he now personally is trying to exploit.
Josh McLaurin (@JoshforGeorgia) April 18, 2022
The Americas Hitler bit is at the end.
The public deserves to know the magnitude of this guys bad faith. pic.twitter.com/79Z0qSWFWF
I cant believe how cynical he has become, McLaurin described Vance to Vice News , which reported that it had reviewed evidence the two were law school roommates and that the messages were authentic. The public deserves to know also, so we can stop picking leaders who have so much disdain for the people they represent.
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Vances new campaign ad touts him as the conservative outsider who will continue Trumps fight to secure our borders , protect the unborn, get rid of the corrupt politicians and stop Joe Biden and heavily features news coverage of Trumps endorsement.
Vance also received an endorsement from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , whom he defended for attending and speaking at a white nationalist conference last month, declaring that she did nothing wrong . Im not going to throw her under the bus.
Vances campaign didnt deny that Vance wrote the messages, but scoffed that its laughable that the media treats J.D. not liking Trump six years ago as some sort of breaking news, when theyve already covered it to death . The mention of Hitler apparently didnt merit any new level of concern.
Vance isnt commenting on his past remarks about Trump, but others piled on.
JD Vance called Trump Americas Hitler. JD proudly accepted Trumps endorsement. What does that make JD? https://t.co/3dmJZvIqqw
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JD proudly accepted Trumps endorsement. What does that make JD? https://t.co/3dmJZvIqqw
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Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us - JD Vance, October 2016
\"Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man. Lord help us.\" - JD Vance, October 2016 https://t.co/ENQqxwkFku
Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us - JD Vance, October 2016
Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) April 15, 2022
"Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man. Lord help us." - JD Vance, October 2016 https://t.co/ENQqxwkFku
JD Vance: Trump is Americas Hitler.
Trump: Son, youve got my endorsement. pic.twitter.com/9FniF7TGkm
JD Vance: Trump is Americas Hitler.
The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) April 18, 2022
Trump: Son, youve got my endorsement. pic.twitter.com/9FniF7TGkm
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