OAN’s Avril Elfie
5:45 PM – Monday, May 13, 2024
Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance said his past statements about former President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign were simply “wrong.”
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CNN‘s Dana Bash asked Vance (R-Ohio) about his 2016 tweets in the wake of President Trump’s leaks. access hollywood The following was written on the tape: “Christians, everyone is watching us. When we apologize to this man. [Trump], Lord, help us. ”
Bash asked Vance if she still felt the same way about what she described as Trump’s “sexual indiscretions” amid the ongoing “hush money” trial in New York. It pointed out that he later deleted the derogatory tweet.
“But look, my view of Donald Trump — and I’ve been very clear about this — is, look, I was wrong about him. I never thought he would be a good president, Dana, and I was very, very proud to be proven wrong. That’s why I’m working so hard to get him elected. “One of them,” he replied. CNN‘s “State of the Union” program.
Vance later highlighted the trial and showed support for the former president, explaining that Trump had not been charged with “sexual indiscretion.”
“First of all, Donald Trump is not on trial for sexual indiscretions. This is a sham trial, and his misdeeds are telling us that he broke the law and committed a crime. “That’s been said,” he said. “You can’t put someone in jail in the middle of a presidential election just because they did something bad 10 years ago. So separate these arguments from the actual criminal trials that are trying to interfere in the presidential election. I think you need to, Dana.”
Then on Monday, the Ohio senator, along with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.), Eric Trump and Donald Trump, appeared in a Manhattan courtroom for the fifth time. I’m back. This trial week.
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