- Bret Baier asked him about calling Trump ‘harmful and reprehensible’
- Trump’s vice presidential nominee also compared him to Hitler and questioned his morality.
Sen. JD Vance says he was wrong about Donald Trump when he called him “reprehensible” and compared him to Hitler.
The Ohio senator faced a series of his most incendiary tweets attacking Trump when Trump was seeking the White House and JD Vance was a “never Trumper.”
Many of the inquiries already surfaced during Vance’s 2022 Senate bid, but they are getting new attention now that he is on Trump’s list of potential vice presidential running mates.
‘You know, senator, this is an evolution. And I know you’ve been asked about this before about previous comments you made about Donald Trump,” Fox News host Bret Baier asked Vance before reading aloud some of his most heartbreaking comments.
‘I’m a guy who’s never been Trump’; ‘he never liked her’; ‘terrible candidate’; ‘idiot if you voted for him’; “he could be America’s Hitler”; ‘he could be a cynical jerk’; ‘cultural heroine’; “Harmful and reprehensible,” Baier said. The comments appeared in a graphic on the network’s broadcast, when the host asked how Vance would deal with his own past criticism of him if he were Trump’s running mate.
“Look, I was wrong about Donald Trump,” said Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who compared Donald Trump to Hitler and called him a moral disaster but is now on Trump’s short list to be his running mate. for the vice presidency.
“Yes, well, I think the simple answer is that you have to respect the American people enough to be honest with them,” he said. answered. ‘Look, I was wrong about Donald Trump. I didn’t think he was going to be a good president, Bret. He was a great president. And it’s one of the reasons I’m working so hard to make sure he gets a second term.”
He then tried to turn his own criticism of Trump into a parable about change, rather than what critics called expediency.
“I think when you’re wrong about something, you should change your mind and be honest with people about that fact,” he said.
Those weren’t the only things the populist ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author said about Trump. And it was more than a criticism of his budget plans.
Vance called Trump a “moral disaster” in 2017, according to Twitter direct messages uncovered by cnn. He said Trump had “no domestic policy agenda other than tax cuts.”
Host Bret Baier sang some of Vance’s greatest hits about Trump. ‘I’m a guy who’s never been Trump’; ‘he never liked her’; ‘terrible candidate’; ‘idiot if you voted for him’; “he could be America’s Hitler”; ‘he could be a cynical jerk’; ‘cultural heroine’; “harmful and reprehensible,” said the host, forcing his guest to respond
“When you’re wrong about something, you have to change your mind and be honest with people about that fact,” Vance said.
He also agreed with a host who called Trump a “total fraud,” saying, “I don’t think he actually cares about people.” “I think he just recognizes that there was a gap in the conversation and that gap is that people in these regions of the country feel ignored.”
‘I’m a guy who never succeeds. I never liked it,” he told interviewer Charlie Rose in 2016.
They also liked tweets that said Trump committed a “serial sexual assault” and one that called him “one of America’s most hated, villainous, and idiotic celebrities.” cnn reported.
His Yale Law School classmate shared a screenshot in 2022 from Vance reflecting: ‘I go back and forth between thinking that Trump is a cynical moron like Nixon who wouldn’t be so bad (and might even be useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?