By Ja'han Jones Sen. JD Vance tried to paper over former President Donald Trump’ s connection with white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes during an interview over the weekend. Speaking with ABC News’ Jon Karl , Vance was asked about Trump’s widely criticized dinner with Fuentes and the Hitler-loving rapper , Ye in 2022, as well as Fuentes’ recent comments that Trump shouldn't have picked Vance as a running mate in part because Vance’s wife, Usha, is Indian American.
Trump’s VP pick agreed with Karl’s summation of Fuentes’ attacks on his wife as “racist garbage.” But after Karl noted “this is also a guy that dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago during this campaign,” Vance chimed in with some spin. He said: Well -- and that Donald Trump doesn’t know anything about, and frankly, doesn’t care for.
But yeah, look, my attitude to these people attacking my wife is, she’s beautiful, she’s smart. What kind of man marries Usha? A very smart man and a very lucky man, importantly. And my view is, look, if these guys want to attack me or attack my views, my policy views, my personality, come after me.
But don’t attack my wife. She’s out of your league. After Vance falsely claimed Trump condemned his own dinner with Fuentes amid the backlash, Karl corrected him and noted that Trump has never condemned Fuentes or his views .
And that’s when Vance claimed his wife’s personal interactions with Trump assured him. He said: The one thing I like about .