J.D. Vance Defends His Trump Flip Flop on Fox & Friends Because He ‘Revealed How Corrupt the Media Is’

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-PA) defended going from a Donald Trump critic to loyal supporter by arguing he learned an “important lesson” during Trump’s time in the White House.

Vance joined Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones for an interview that aired Wednesday. The chat is part of a series of profiles of potential vice presidential picks for Trump. At one point, Jones brought up Vance’s past criticism of the former president, including declaring himself to be a “Never Trump guy” in 2016 and even calling Trump an “idiot” that same year.

Jones argued that most Americans don’t “care” about the flip flop, but they are interested in the “evolution” from Trump hater to potential Trump VP.

“First of all, Trump was just a very, very good president. I would say a great president,” Vance said, praising the economy under Trump and noting there was more “world peace.”

Vance, a Marine veteran and author of Hillbilly Elegy, said he also learned an “important lesson” about media corruption while watching coverage of Trump.

“One, it’s about the success of Trump’s presidency, but I also think his presidency revealed, at least to me, how corrupt the media was. It taught me a very important lesson about how the media lies,” he said.

The senator called for an end to Republicans who are afraid “to be called bad names by the media” and argued Democrats “fear” him because of his working class background, much of which is covered in his Hillbilly Elegy book because they can’t dismiss him by saying he “hates poor people or hates black people.”

“They really can’t pull that with me because I grew up in a poor family, and I was raised in a working class community, so I do think there’s something just about my biography that makes it a little bit harder for these guys to attack me and maybe that’s why they fear me,” he said.

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