Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance greets delegates as he arrives on the floor during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee.
Mandatory Credit:	Carolyn Kaster/AP via CNN Newsource

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance greets delegates as he arrives on the floor during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee.
Mandatory Credit: Carolyn Kaster/AP via CNN Newsource

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JD Vance, Trump’s VP pick, once called him a ‘moral disaster,’ and possibly ‘America’s Hitler’

Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick Ohio Sen. JD Vance was once a fervent critic of the former president. In private messages, he wondered ahead of Trump’s election whether he was “America’s Hitler” and in 2017 said the then-president was a “moral disaster.” In public, he agreed Trump was a “total fraud” who didn’t care about regular people and called him “reprehensible.”