It's 2024 and the Associated Press has fact-checked whether JD Vance had sexual relations with his sofa while a freshman in college. Not on, with.
Source: Associated Press
CLAIM: Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance wrote in his 2016 memoir about having sex with a couch.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Vance does not write about performing such an act in his bestselling book. A searchable PDF of the memoir includes 10 mentions of the word “couch” or “couches,” none of which are related to accounts of salacious escapades. Some social media users have claimed the story appears on pages 179 to 181, where Vance actually writes about his first days as a freshman at Ohio State University.
THE FACTS: As the Ohio senator sets out on the campaign trail as the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, social media users are making false claims about the contents of “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.”
“Somebody please explain to me how JD Vance, who wrote about humping a couch and has only been a Senator for barely TWO f------ years, thinks he has the right to criticize Kamala Harris’ qualifications,” reads one X post that had received approximately 36,000 likes and 15,600 shares as of Wednesday.
