CNN's Dana Bash asked Ohio U.S. Senator J.D. Vance about a tweet he deleted to "fellow Christians" after the Access Hollywood tape became public. At the time, Vance was appalled, but just like a few of his Republican colleagues, he's OK about it now.
"I want to ask about what we saw this past week, and it's going to continue this week, the trial in New York," Bash said. "Adult film actress Stormy Daniels testified about her allegation of a sexual encounter with Donald Trump."
"Now, after the Access Hollywood tape in 2016, you tweeted, quote, 'fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man, Lord help us.' Now, you've since deleted that tweet."
"Do you still feel that way about Donald Trump's sexual indiscretions?" Bash asked.
"Well, first of all, Donald Trump is not on trial for sexual indiscretions," Vance said. "This is a sham trial where they're saying his misdeed is that he violated the law, that he committed a crime. You can't throw somebody in prison in the middle of a presidential election because you think that he did something bad 10 years ago."
"So I think we have to separate these arguments from the actual criminal trial that's attempting to, in my view, Dana, interfere in a presidential election," he continued. But look, my view on Donald Trump, I've been very clear on this is, look, I was wrong about him."
"I didn't think he was going to be a good president, Dana, and I was very, very proud to be proven wrong," Vance said about the former President who left office in disgrace with the worst job numbers since Herbert Hoover. "It's one of the reasons why I'm working so hard to get him elected."
"And I think that the contrast here is really from Joe Biden, who delivered chaos on the world stage, rising cost of living here at home, to Donald Trump, who delivered peace and prosperity to the American people and to the world," he insisted. "That's a very, very simple contrast to make. But I think Republicans just have to hammer that message home because we've got the winning horse here, and we've got the winning message."
What is it about Trump that makes Republicans throw their alleged Christianity out the window for a raging narcissistic septuagenarian who wears lifts in his shoes to appear taller and has a hard-on for his daughter? Make it make sense, please. I will never understand what attracts them to that 'man.'
