‘Might Be America’s Hitler’: Fox’s Bret Baier Confronts J.D. Vance with Brutal Past Criticisms of Trump

BAIER: “You know, senator, this is an evolution. And I know you have been asked about this before, about past comments that you have made about Donald Trump. You said, ‘I’m a never Trump guy.’ ‘Never liked him’. ‘Terrible candidate.’ ‘Idiot if you voted for him.’ ‘Might be America’s Hitler.’ ‘Might be a cynical a-hole.’ ‘Cultural heroin.’ ‘Noxious and reprehensible.’ Those are things that the left is going to come after you and they’ll probably put in ads should you be chosen as the VP pick. How do you deal with them now?”
Vance: “Yeah, well, I think the simple answer is, you have got to respect the American people enough to just level with them. Look, I was wrong about Donald Trump. I didn’t think he was going to be a good president, Bret. He was a great president. It’s one of the reasons why I’m working so hard to make sure he gets a second term. I think you should, when you are wrong about something, you should change your mind and be honest with people about that fact. And I actually think, again, whether this is running as his running mate or running and supporting him as a United States senator, Bret, I think it actually presents a real opportunity to talk to the American people, because a lot of people didn’t think Trump was going to be a good president and a lot of people were happy to be proven wrong. And I think it presents an opportunity for me to make the case to the American people that, look, we have two very different sets of results: four years of Joe Biden, four years of Donald Trump. We know the Trump record is one of success, the Biden record is one of failure. I came around to Donald Trump and I think that a lot of Americans will do the exact same thing.”