JD Vance disowns old anti-Trump tweets as he runs for Ohio Senate seat: 'I regret being wrong about

[Judi Lynn]

JD Vance disowns old anti-Trump tweets as he runs for Ohio Senate seat: ‘I regret being wrong about the guy’

Hillbilly Elegy author has radically changed his tone and positions since his empathetic book exploded in popularity among liberals

Andrew Naughtie
@andrewnaughtie
48 minutes

JD Vance, the author whose memoir Hillbilly Elegy was hailed by many Democrats for supposedly helping them understand the working-class white voters who backed Donald Trump in 2016, is running for a US Senate seat in Ohio – and he is now apologising for old tweets from years past in which he described the then-candidate Mr Trump as undeserving of support.

Mr Vance, a Yale Law School graduate with a lucrative career in venture capital, is running as a rabble-rousing pro-Trump populist, using the slogan “conservative outsider”. He is putting effort into trolling Democrats, jumping on right-wing culture war causes and lashing out at more moderate rivals in an already crowded Republican primary.

But as first spotted by CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski, he is also working hard to clean up evidence that he was once a staunch anti-Trumper.

In one of the deleted messages, from October 2016, Mr Vance wrote: “Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us.”

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-ohio-trump-tweets-b1878944.html?r=83429

[Blue Owl]

1. There it is, JD Vance's "Come To Donny" moment

(cue sappy organ music)

Just as I am, without one plea...

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

8. "That Pres-i-dent Trump will enn-dorse me."

[Judi Lynn]

2. Sycophant Elegy: JD Vance Grovels to Fox News For Ever Criticizing Trump

"I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016," he told Fox News.
PB
By Paul Blest

July 6, 2021, 9:00am

‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author and Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance said Monday that he deeply regrets a big mistake he made once: not immediately giving Donald Trump his undying loyalty.

Prior to announcing his bid for Senate last week, Vance deleted several anti-Trump tweets from 2016, including one where he said he would vote for third-party candidate Evan McMullin and another where he called Trump “reprehensible.”

Vance initially charged that he was being attacked by other Republicans and CNN, the outlet that first reported that the tweets had been deleted, declaring to Tucker Carlson that “if you’re not willing to wade through a little crap to save this country, then you’re not willing to stand up on the big stage, and I am.”

But on Monday he took to Fox News to proclaim that he was simply wrong about Trump, who somehow convinced Vance he was a “good president” after four deeply unpopular years in office.

More:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3d55w/sycophant-elegy-jd-vance-grovels-to-fox-news-for-ever-criticizing-trump

[dweller]

3. Hillbilly

Snowflake



✌🏻

[spooky3]

4. A phony sellout. There was something inauthentic and troubling about

The various quotes from his book that were all over the media then. Now the full BS comes out…

[EYESORE 9001]

5. He's burnishing his image

as a complete phony. Hope you go broke running for the Senate.

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. OK, J. D.

Now you're just flat out WRONG. Happy now, ya big phony?

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

7. What a butt-kissing sellout.

Well Vance, looks like you're an official Trumper now. Leave your sanity and ability to reason at the door as you venture into TrumpWorld.

[Paladin]

9. Welcome to Disgraceland, JD.

Looking forward to the book you write about your ignorance and humiliation.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Trump's actual policy proposals, such as they are, range from immoral to absurd

Link to tweet

[SharonAnn]

11. He's just an opportunist.