Believe it or not, Usha Vance once had a view in common with the
majority of Americans: she reportedly believed Trump was responsible for inciting the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, and found it “deeply disturbing.”
That’s according to a Washington Post report published Saturday, based
on interviews with more than two dozen of her friends, former co-workers
and classmates. “Usha found the incursion on the Capitol and Trump’s
role in it to be deeply disturbing,” one friend told the Post. Vance
also registered to vote as a Democrat at least twice, according to the
Post, and until this month worked as a litigator at a progressive San
Francisco law firm.
The friend added to the Post: “She was generally appalled by Trump, from
the moment of his first election.”
But then again, so was her husband, Trump’s newly-crowned running mate
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio). As Mother Jones has covered, J.D. Vance once
called Trump “cultural heroin,” “reprehensible,” and “a cynical asshole…or America’s Hitler.” (On Facebook, according to the Post, Usha Vance praised her husband’s 2016 essay for the Atlantic, in which he
called Trump “cultural heroin,” for publicly taking a “firm stand
against Trump.”) Since then, though, he—and, apparently, his wife—have gone through something of a metamorphosis. J.D. Vance has called people arrested for their role in the insurrection “political prisoners.” And
as my colleague David Corn reported this week, he also endorsed a book
that praised the January 6 rioters and called progressives “unhuman.”
(And as I reported, this is not the only book by a right-wing extremist
that Vance has endorsed.)
Spokespeople for the Trump campaign and a representative for J.D. Vance
did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday afternoon
about the Post‘s reporting on Usha Vance. But in a statement a
spokesperson for J.D. Vance provided to the Post, Jai Chabria, a
Republican strategist and family friend, said that Usha Vance “had a
similar shift in views [to J.D.] and fully supports Donald Trump and her husband and will do whatever she can to ensure their victory this November.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/usha-jd-vance-trump-jan-6-washington-post/
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