• Sen. JD Vance recounted being asked if he had a “secret family” during the vice presidential vetting process, which he found intrusive and bizarre, especially since his wife was present.
  • Vance described the vetting process as detailed and intrusive, including questions about potential family criticisms and criminal history.
  • Politicians undergoing vice presidential vetting often face extensive scrutiny to prepare for media examination, highlighting past examples like Herschel Walker and John Edwards who had hidden children.
  • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Y’all opened the floodgates for weird, absurd conversations. Blame yourselves, again .

  • norimee@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Oh no! It seems like he couldn’t answer this question truthfully with his wife present. Now, a secret family isn’t so secret anymore if you tell your wife about it, is it?!

    • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.place
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, that’s a weird thing to make a press release about. Who tells the press that they were asked if they have a secret family? And why is the weird part, according to him, of this that he was asked with his wife present? I think the weirdest part of all this is that they thought that was weird. But actually, this whole thing is weird. Something about this is off. Weird af 😬

  • wjrii@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    JD Vance, most likely: “So Usha’s not white, but she probably still wouldn’t like that.”

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      3 months ago

      I said above that would I hope for their sake that it was both and here is why… if you ask him in private, he might say yes or no whether or not that’s true. If you ask him in front of his wife, you can gauge her reaction to his answer. If he says no and they notice she reacts to that in even a way that shows she is doubting his answer, they should notice. Whether there was something to notice and they noticed it, I don’t know.

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    3 months ago

    That’s what vetting is all about, you moron.

    That said, I hope they also asked him when he wasn’t around his wife.