Vance: I said some bad things about Donald Trump 10 years ago; I was wrong

Republican Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance speaks as Republican US presidential candidate former president Donald Trump listens at a campaign rally at Wright Bros. Aero Inc. at Dayton International Airport, November 7, 2022, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
Republican Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance speaks as Republican US presidential candidate former president Donald Trump listens at a campaign rally at Wright Bros. Aero Inc. at Dayton International Airport, November 7, 2022, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Donald Trump’s newly-announced vice presidential candidate JD Vance acknowledges his strongly worded past attacks against Trump, reiterating that he had been “wrong.”

Critics have pointed to numerous awkward remarks one-time “Never Trump guy” Vance has made in the past, including calling the billionaire an “idiot,” “noxious” and “reprehensible,” and suggesting he was “America’s Hitler.”

“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 privately to an associate on Facebook in 2016.

Now, Vance tells Fox News: “I said some bad things about Donald Trump ten years ago, but I think it’s actually important to be able again to admit that you’re wrong.”

This isn’t the first time the Ohio senator has recanted his former stance.

“Like a lot of people, I criticized Trump back in 2016,” Vance said in 2021. “And I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016, because I’ve been very open that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy.”

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