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OH & MO-Sen: J.D. Vance (R) Thinks Political Ads Advocating Murder Are Funny [1]

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Date: 2022-06-23 00:00:00

This week this piece of shit pulled this stunt and is facing blowback:

Two people familiar with Trump’s reaction to the Greitens ad said the president expressed that he did not appreciate the content and believed it went too far. But Trump has not commented on the ad publicly, and he sometimes tells different advisers different things, depending on the context of the conversation.

Others are preparing to pour millions instead into an independent bid by John F. Wood, a senior investigative counsel on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. And some are concerned that intervening in the race could play into Greitens’s hands by feeding his anti-establishment posturing — or even prompting former president Donald Trump to endorse him.

But the opposition is split among factions backing different rivals in the Aug. 2 primary and over disagreements on who should attack Greitens or how, according to people involved in the discussions. They, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

Republican operatives and donors in Washington and Missouri are privately working to undercut the Senate campaign of Eric Greitens, the ex-governor who resigned in disgrace four years ago, after he released an ad that graphically dramatized hunting down members of his own party.

And of course, fellow piece of shit, J.D. Vance (R. OH), thought it was quite amusing:

Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum played the aforementioned clip for Vance during an interview.

“What do you think?” she asked.

Vance laughed and stated:

I think that so much of political advertisement, look, I’ve run my own advertisements in this campaign. You’re trying to grab headlines a little bit. You’re trying to do something that’s a little bit unorthodox. So at the end of the day, I think what Greiten’s trying to go after, is, look, a lot of our voters, a lot of our base, very frustrated with sending Republicans to Washington who don’t do anything. I’m not going to comment on the Missouri race because it’s not my race and it’s not my state. But I’m not surprised –

MacCallum interrupted Vance.

“He’s going into a house with a gun and saying they want to bag as many RINOs as they possibly can,” she reminded him. “Do you think that’s a good place to go, given all the violence that we are seeing in the country right now?”

Vance replied, “I don’t think Eric Greitens is saying that he wants to murder a bunch of people. I think it’s clearly a television advertisement meant for effect. We should take it like that.”

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