J.D. Vance brushed off Laura Loomer’s racist comments, despite being married to an Indian American woman.

J.D. Vance would apparently rather protect Donald Trump’s decision to pal around with self-described “proud Islamophobe” and 9/11 conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer than stand up for his own wife.

Trump has been seen with Loomer several times over the last couple of weeks, with the pair getting eyebrow-raisingly close (Trump’s hand has been spotted in the small of Loomer’s back) while Melania Trump has largely remained out of the limelight. Loomer attended a 9/11 memorial service with Trump and also accompanied him to the presidential debate.

In an interview Sunday with NBC News, Vance was asked directly about his and his wife Usha Vance’s opinions on some of Loomer’s overt racism, including her claim that Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascendency to the Oval Office would make the White House “smell like curry.” But Vance wouldn’t take a stand against the alt-right ally.

“Do I agree with what Laura Loomer said about Kamala Harris? No, I don’t,” Vance continued. “I also don’t think that this is actually an issue of national import. Is Laura Loomer running for president? No. Kamala Harris is running for president, and whether you’re eating curry at your dinner table or fried chicken, things have gotten more expensive thanks to her policies.”


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    How easy do we forget when Biden said black people don’t know how to use the internet… (Gaslight warning: I am not talking about the tweet alleging that he said that, I am talking about a statement that I heard come out of his mouth with my own ears) or when he said you’re not really black if you vote for Trump… Because he’s such a great judge of what being black really means?

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      Oh wow you heard it with your own ears??!! Of course those dirty DEMONCRATS probably enlisted BIG TECH to delete all the proof from the internet. Thank God we have you to tell us, without any proof whatsoever, what really happened!

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      How easy do we forget when Biden said…

      Biden isn’t running anymore. What we remember or forget is irrelevant.

      You need to download the latest version of the Republican attack points. Yours are outdated.

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        You just don’t stop do you?

        VP Harris chose to run while she was the incumbent Vice President. She is attached to what is commonly known as the Biden-Harris Administration. She had the opportunity to correct his comments or to distance herself from them when he made them. Because she did not, she must face the same penalty every other politician faces. The same standard that you’re holding Trump to when he did not distance himself from JD Vance who does not distance himself from Laura Loomer.

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      You mean this bit speaking of registrations for the Covid vaccine in 2021?

      https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/02/17/remarks-by-president-biden-in-a-cnn-town-hall-with-anderson-cooper/

      "The other thing we found is — and I’m sorry to go on, but this is really important to me.  The other part — portion is, a lot of people don’t know how to register.  Not everybody in the community — in the Hispanic and the African American community, particularly in rural areas that are distant and/or inner-city districts — know how to use — know how to get online to determine how to get in line for that COVID vaccination at the Walgreens or at the particular store.

      So we’re also — I’ve committed to spend a billion dollars on public education to help people figure out how they can get in there.  That’s why we’re also trying to set up mass vaccination centers, like places in stadiums and the like."

      Less about the Internet in general and more about the specific vaccine registration process.