JD Vance Praises Trump For Talking To 'Anybody' When Pressed About Nick Fuentes Dinner
By: HuffPost
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ABC News' Jonathan Karl pressed Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Sunday over former President Donald Trump's controversial dinner with Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist who has launched racist comments at his wife Usha Vance.
Karl, in a sit-down interview with Trump's running mate, noted the "really nasty stuff" that Fuentes said about the candidate's family when he asked whether a "guy who has an Indian wife and named their kid Vivek is going to support white identity" last month.
"He said that terrible stuff but he said — I mean, he's a white supremacist," Karl told Vance.
"Look, I think he's — President Trump has issued plenty of condemnations on this. The one thing that I like —," Vance replied.
"But not of Fuentes," Karl interjected.
"The one — the one thing I like about Donald Trump, Jon, is that he actually will talk to anybody," Vance said.
He continued, "But just because you talk to somebody doesn't mean you endorse their views. And look, I mean Donald Trump spent a lot of quality time with my wife. Every time he sees her, he gives her a hug, tells her she's beautiful and jokes around with her a little bit."
Karl, earlier in the interview, read Fuentes' comments to Vance's face and referred to them as "racist garbage."
"Yes it is," replied Vance, who previously acknowledged but didn't condemn the white supremacist attacks in an interview last month.
"But this is also a guy that dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago during this campaign," said Karl, citing Fuentes' dinner with Trump and Ye — the artist formerly known as Kanye West who has praised Adolf Hitler — in 2022.
JD Vance on Trump dining with white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who made racist comments about his wife and Trump has never fully disavowed: "The one thing I like about Donald Trump is he actually will talk to anybody, but just because you talk to somebody doesn't mean you endorse… pic.twitter.com/gB1vr8G2qi
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Vance suggested that Trump "doesn't know anything about and frankly doesn't care" for Fuentes before describing his "attitude" to people attacking his wife.
"She's beautiful, she's smart. What kind of man marries Usha? A very smart man and a very lucky man, importantly," Vance said.
He continued, "And my view is, look, if these guys want to attack me or attack my views, my policy views, my personality, come after me. But don't attack my wife, she's out of your league."
Vance, later in the interview, declared that he wasn't worried at all about Trump but has worried "sometimes about these ridiculous attacks."
"But again, this is what you sign up for when you come into politics," he said.
"I wish people would keep it focused on me. But, whatever, they're gonna say what they're going to say. My wife's tough enough to handle it and that's a good thing."
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'trump spent a lot of quality time with my wife, every time he sees her, he gives her a hug, tells her she's beautiful, and jokes around with her a little bit.' that's quality time?
He even talks to Hannibal Lecter in his head.
Vance calls Fuentes a total loser and says Fuentes’s views have no place in the MAGA movement, and this article results.
Far left Media is such a caricature.
I’d point to a summary of Walz’s interview for comparison, but he’s apparently not allowed to be interviewed on Sunday talk shows because of his stolen valor issues.
We are supposed to believe that Trump didnt know he was sitting down to dinner with a known white supremacist and anti-semite. Doesnt pass the laugh test.
It's about priorities Sean, trump had Fuentes to Mara Lago so he must be Klansman who hate black people, Walz sent state funds to a Muslim cleric who celebrated Oct 7 and links to Neo-Nazi websites and praises Hitler, so he is a man of the people, Democrat people, concentrated in Hollywood, and college campuses' and the democrat base...But people none the less.
Vance is trying to convince himself that trmp is ok
the one who called him America's Hitler
One of my doctors put me on a new medication a couple of days ago. She said it might temporarily cause nausea. I told her that if I want to get nauseous all I have to do is listen to Trump. Her response: "What about Vance!"
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that's funny
It made me laugh.
So to sum up where we are in 2924m. Progressive media in 2024 attacks Vance for calling an anti semite a total loser, and ignores Walz praising a 10/7 celebrating, hitler promoter as a master teacher who taught him valuable lessons.
Not just praised him but funneled 100,000 in state funds to him, remember when liberals lost their mind because Missouri wanted to fund a playground resurface at a Lutheran school? I guess supporting antisemitic terrorists is just fine with the people in Minnesota and Walz.
Let us know when the Hyena the Dems nominated does an interview with anyone under any conditions.
I think you meant the hyena democrats were told they have no choice but to vote for.