Donald Trump Jr.’s time in the spin room after Tuesday night’s debate between Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance and Democratic counterpart Tim Walz had at least one very awkward moment.
Trump attacked the media for creating the “political climate” that set the stage for two assassination attempts on his father, Donald Trump.
“You can’t blame the media for those threats,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins said.
“When someone calls, and allows people to have a platform to call, someone literally Hitler every day for 9 years, it creates it,” Trump said. “Whether you want to believe it or not, that’s a fact.”
Collins offered Trump a quick refresher.
“JD Vance once likened your dad to Hitler as well,” she pointed out. “He questioned if he was America’s Hitler.”
Vance was once a vocal Trump critic, and got candid during a 2016 chat on Facebook with a friend.
“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” Vance wrote.
He has also called Trump an “idiot” and a “total fraud,” and called himself a “Never Trump guy.”
“I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place,” Vance told NPR in 2016.
Vance has since said he was wrong about Trump, and said so again during Tuesday night’s debate.
Naturally, he also blamed the media.
“I believed some of the media stories that turned out to be dishonest fabrications of his record,” he said.
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