JD Vance Melts Down Over ‘Anti-JD Rag’ Jewish Insider — Attacks Fox Contributor EIC as ‘Biggest Hack in Washington’
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Vice President JD Vance raged at Jewish Insider Thursday morning, calling it an “anti-JD rag” and editor-in-chief Josh Kraushaar the “biggest hack in Washington” while ripping what he called a “hit piece”.
The article reports on comments by Vance in the Signal chat published on Monday after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to a groupchat featuring several senior Trump administration officials by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz. As a result, Goldberg was made privy to a conversation between Vance and other top Trump officials as they discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The Jewish Insider article, which was not written by Kraushaar, focused on how Vance questioned the strategic value of military strikes in the chat logs, arguing they primarily served European interests. The article featured anonymous criticism from several Republican senators who expressed concern that Vance’s non-interventionist stance could steer the GOP away from its traditional foreign policy approach.
While a few lawmakers defended his right to voice dissent in internal discussions, the story largely framed Vance as isolated within his party and potentially out of step with national security priorities.
Soon after the article went live, Vance took to X to slam it as a “hit piece” that painted his views as fringe by leaning heavily on “cowardly” anonymous critics. The vice president highlighted a fact in the piece that wrongly attributed the deaths of three U.S. service members to the Houthis.
Singling out Kraushaar, who also works as a Fox News contributor, Vance branded him the “dumbest journalist in Washington” for letting the inaccuracy slide into the copy, jibing that the outlet as a whole was “an anti-JD rag.”
“This morning, @JoshKraushaar ran a hit piece against me in Jewish Insider, which has become an anti-JD rag. It has many problems, including seven anonymous quotes from cowardly Republicans. But the most glaring factual error is the below, which says the Houthis killed three Americans last January. Actually, the group responsible for that attack was ‘Islamic Resistance in Iraq,’ which is an entirely different militia group,” wrote Vance. “Now, you might say this is evidence of Kraushaar being the biggest hack in Washington, and you *may* be correct. Another very plausible explanation is that he’s the dumbest journalist in Washington. Either way, shocking an error like this could get through his vaunted editorial process!”
