Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) was caught blaming Democrats for something Donald Trump's own campaign is participating in, according to a new report.
In a New York Times interview, Vance was asked about the 2020 election result five times — and refused to say that Trump either won or lost.
Instead, the Washington Post's Philip Bump wrote, Vance pivoted to a conspiracy theory that the Democrats did something that, in fact his own 2024 campaign is doing.
“Did big technology companies censor a story that independent studies have suggested would have cost Trump millions of votes?” Vance asked.
His claim is that Trump lost the election because Twitter stopped a New York Post story on Hunter Biden from spreading. He references a poll carried out by the right-wing Media Research Center, the Washington Post reported.
This "has been explored at length in the past, but it should immediately fail the smell test anyway. The 2020 election was a referendum on Trump, his presidency, and particularly his handling of the coronavirus pandemic," the Post report said.
It also pointed out that Trump's own campaign is now doing exactly what Vance is accusing "big tech" of doing in 2020.
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"The throughline is that Vance is pretending Trump’s loss was driven by something that his own campaign with Trump actually did," Bump wrote.
It was reported on Friday that Trump's campaign has been working with X owner Elon Musk to suppress the free speech he promised the platform would represent.
"Hackers linked to Iran reportedly obtained the briefing book compiled as Trump was vetting potential running mates," said the report. "Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein bit, however, publishing the document on his website. And in short order, X banned Klippenstein’s account, purportedly because the linked document included personal information about Vance."
The Times revealed that “the campaign connected with X to prevent the circulation of links to the material on the platform, according to two people with knowledge of the events. X eventually blocked links to the material and suspended the reporter’s account.”
