JD Vance responds to past criticism of Trump in first interview after VP pick announcement

JD Vance responds to past criticism of Trump after he’s announced as running mate Fox News

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00:00You compared him to a cultural heroine in the Atlantic Monthly.

00:04And I'll tell you Trump's response, but you said that then.

00:08What do you say to people that say, well, wait a minute.

00:12What did he mean?

00:13Well, Sean, I don't hide from that.

00:14I was certainly skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016, but President Trump was a great president

00:19and he changed my mind.

00:20I think he changed the minds of a lot of Americans because, again, he delivered that peace and

00:24prosperity.

00:26If you go back to what I thought in 2016, another thing that was going on, Sean, is

00:30I bought into the media's lies and distortions.

00:32I bought into this idea that somehow he was going to be so different, a terrible threat

00:37to democracy.