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International Business Times UK
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JD Vance 2016 Tweets Criticising Trump Over Sexual Assault and Racism Resurface

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance walk along the West Colonnade, Friday, July 18, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

US Vice President JD Vance has been thrust back into a firestorm of his own making as a series of 2016 tweets—in which he labelled Donald Trump 'reprehensible' and a 'moral disaster', have resurfaced on social media.

The posts, originally written during Vance's time as a conservative intellectual and author of 'Hillbilly Elegy', show the now-Vice President questioning Trump's treatment of immigrants, Muslims, minorities and his fitness for office following allegations of sexual assault.

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