Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) tried to distract from his previous reward for former President Barack Obama by evaluating Obama’s abilities as a household man to these of Donald Trump’s.
Throughout an look on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, host Kristen Welker pressed the senator to say if he nonetheless thinks of Obama as an “admirable man,” quoting from a 2017 opinion piece Vance wrote for The New York Instances.
Whereas Vance, who’s reportedly one of many fundamental contenders within the race to be Trump’s operating mate, admitted to Welker that Obama was a “good husband and father,” he stated that the identical is true for Trump.
“I grew up in a damaged household, Kristen, and I simply wished to be a great husband and pa,” he stated. “And definitely Barack Obama, regardless of my many political disagreements with him, he’s clearly a great husband and a father. By the best way, I’d say the identical factor about Donald Trump, whose kids love him.”
“I believe this is without doubt one of the issues the media typically misses about Trump,” Vance continued. “Is how genuinely devoted he’s to his household, to his grandchildren, and the way a part of his pro-life messaging, his basic pro-life view, is that we should make it simpler for extra American households to have these thriving kids and thriving households.”
Though Trump’s kids have spoken favorably of him in the past, with a few of them even supporting him throughout his hush cash case, Trump’s marriage historical past isn’t as complimentary.
He’s the one U.S. president to have been married thrice and divorced twice.
Vance then returned his focus to Obama, saying to Welker, “Was Barack Obama a great president? No. Was he a great husband and father? Sure.”
In his 2017 piece, Vance referred to as the Republican Get together’s failure to “disconnect respectable political disagreements from the truth that [Obama] himself is an admirable man” one of many “nice failures of latest political historical past.”
“For at a pivotal time in my life, Barack Obama gave me hope {that a} boy who grew up like me might nonetheless obtain crucial of my goals,” he wrote. “For that, I’ll miss him, and the instance he set.”
