from the they'd-steal-the-shirt-off-your-back-if-they-could dept

On Wednesday, JD Vance did the one thing JD Vance knows how to do with full commitment: lie through his teeth about something he fully knows is bullshit. In this case, claiming that Donald Trump “hates the idea of people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the government.”

Remember, this is the same Donald Trump who dismantled the FBI and DOJ teams that handled public corruption because they had been involved in investigating himself. That alone appears to already be letting politicians off the hook in bribery cases. It’s the same Donald Trump who personally profited by over $2 billion in his first year in office. There are widespread reports of insider trading based on knowledge from his position as president. There are the sketchy settlement deals he gets to do with himself to take taxpayer money.…