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(NewsNation) — Sen. JD Vance's past remark astir "childless feline ladies" has caused contention successful caller days but erstwhile President Donald Trump defended his moving mate Wednesday, saying helium believes Vance's comments meant that he's "strongly household oriented."
Trump participated successful a speech with journalists astatine the National Association of Black Journalists league successful Chicago erstwhile helium was asked astir Vance’s comments.
“My mentation is that helium is powerfully family-oriented but that doesn't mean if you don't person a family, there's thing wrong,” Trump said successful an effort to locomotion backmost Vance’s earlier comments.
“What he's saying is that helium thinks the household experiences a precise important thing. It’s a precise bully thing” helium said adding it’s not a atrocious happening if an idiosyncratic doesn’t “meet idiosyncratic that would beryllium fantastic to meet.”
In a resurfaced 2021 interrogation with erstwhile Fox News, Vance said that the U.S. was being tally by Democrats, firm oligarchs and “a clump of childless feline ladies who are miserable astatine their ain lives and the choices that they’ve made and truthful they privation to marque the remainder of the state miserable, too.”
Vance drew wide disapproval implicit his words, but stood behind it this week calling it a “sarcastic comment."
But portion Trump defended Vance, helium besides played down his value saying "the prime of a vice president makes nary difference" and has "virtually nary impact" successful an election.
Trump said helium picked his moving mate "because he's a precise beardown believer successful enactment arsenic the moving antheral and woman, and particularly the moving antheral and pistillate who person been treated precise unfairly."
He besides touted Vance's admittance to Yale Law School contempt coming from a "difficult household situation."
But the erstwhile president besides took recognition for Vance being elected arsenic Ohio's legislator saying it happened due to the fact that Trump endorsed him.
Trump besides addressed a viral clip connected societal media wherever Vance projected that radical with children beryllium fixed much voting powerfulness than radical without kids.
When asked if helium shares the presumption astatine Wednesday's lawsuit helium replied "Well, no, but it's not thing I've ever heard before."
