In a blistering revelation on CNN Wednesday morning, Josh McLaurin, former college roommate of Sen. J.D. Vance during their Yale Law School days, didn’t hold back in criticizing Vance’s transformation from a Trump critic to a staunch supporter of MAGA ideology.
Speaking from Spain, where he currently serves as a Democratic state senator in Georgia, McLaurin unleashed a damning assessment of Vance’s alleged about-face on Donald Trump. He revealed a text message from Vance referring to Trump as “America’s Hitler,” a stark contrast to Vance’s current alignment with Trump’s political agenda.
McLaurin minced no words: “I’ve agonized over whether to share this, but the public deserves to know who J.D. Vance really is. His sudden conversion to the MAGA movement lacks credibility.”
“Here’s what I think. I don’t buy his explanation the way that he says it,” he said. I” think his instincts told him what Americans see for themselves: that Trump has a narcissistic style personality, cared about attention and fame, wants to be the showrunner who picks among people in dramatic fashion thank doing an Apprentice-style VP selection process — that’s Trump.”
McLaurin acknowledged Vance’s evolution but characterized it as a calculated change rather than a genuine transformation.
“He cares about revenge and he wants to get revenge on his political opponents and J.D. has signed up for that,” he continued. “So I do think that J.D. has changed. I actually think he sincerely has changed. And to your point about credit, he gets credit for not just being an empty suit. So many of his Republican elected official colleagues just say whatever they need to say, even if privately they hold different beliefs.”
“I think he has sort of forced himself to be angry enough to carry that anger through to where he has actually changed as a person and is willing to embrace and amplify all of this MAGA messaging willingly,” he asserted.
The revelation by McLaurin not only casts doubt on Vance’s sincerity but also highlights the rampant political opportunism within the Republican Party.
See the interview below, via CNN:
