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Martin Pengelly in Washington

JD Vance calls Trump ‘morally reprehensible’ in resurfaced emails

JD Vance speaks with media gathered outside the Park Diner on Sunday in St Cloud, Minnesota.
JD Vance speaks with media gathered outside the Park Diner on Sunday in St Cloud, Minnesota. Photograph: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

Questions continued to mount about the political transformation of Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, after the release of emails from a former friend in which Vance called Trump a “morally reprehensible human being” and said: “I hate the police.”

The messages between Vance and Sofia Nelson, who sent them to the New York Times, were largely dated between 2014 and 2017. In one, Vance sent Nelson a section of Hillbilly Elegy, his bestseller about his Appalachian boyhood.

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