J.D. Vance has undeniably found himself caught in the epicenter of a whirlwind of controversy, scrutiny, and criticism since the moment former President and 2024 presidential nominee Donald Trump formally announced that he had chosen the controversial far-Right Ohio senator as his 2024 VP running mate.
Almost all of that controversy is of J.D.’s own making, as Americans have been quick to dig up the Hillbilly Elegy author’s vile past comments — ranging from his past hatred of the man who he once referred to as “America’s Hilter” yet is now attempting to ride his coattails into the highest office in the nation, to J.D.’s truly disgusting remarks about childless Americans, calling them “deranged” and “psychotic” and once referring to Democratic leaders in the US as “childless cat ladies.”
While Vance’s infamous “childless cat ladies” comment is technically over 3 years old now, hailing from a 2021 interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson, it has certainly been the one to gain the most infamy among Americans and quickly went viral across all platforms of social media, helping to bolster the viral new “Weird” movement against Republicans among the Left.
Americans rightfully took Vance’s cat lady remarks as a shot fired toward women, specifically those who either cannot or choose not to have children.
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The past remarks have become so problematic for Vance and the Trump/Vance 2024 campaign as a whole that it seems none other than J.D.’s wife is now on the scene, trying to do a massive amount of damage control, defend her husband’s disgusting past remarks, and attempt to clean up some of this detrimental mess.
Speaking with Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt in a new interview, J.D.’s wife of 10 years and mother to his children, Usha Vance, desperately attempted to put a positive spin on her husband’s past, essentially attempting to gaslight the American people into believing that her husband is actually a good person.
“I think I want them to know that he’s a real person,” Usha, a successful litigator, and graduate of both Cambridge and Yale Law School said. “He has all sorts of dorky interests that anyone of our age could relate to.”
“And I wish that people sometimes would pause and actually listen to the words that he says and try to understand their meaning and their purpose,” she continued. “I think he really cares about having a good conversation, about actually changing things for people who have had a very hard time in this country, and changing it for the better, letting them have the kinds of lives that he’s been lucky enough to have himself.”
“He made a quip in service of making a point that he wanted to make that was substantive,” she said, in specific reference to the “childless cat ladies” remark.
When asked for her message to women around the country who were deeply offended by her husband’s rhetoric, Usha said, “J.D. absolutely, at the time and today would never, ever, ever want to say something to hurt someone who was trying to have a family who really, you know, was struggling with that.”
However, she seemed to have strayed just a little from her husband’s talking point when she added: “And I also understand there are a lot of other reasons why people may choose not to have families, and many of those reasons are very good.”
“Let’s try to look at the real conversation that he’s trying to have and engage with it and understand,” Usha went on.”For those of us who do have families, for the many of us who want to have families, and for whom it’s really hard. What can we do to make it better?”
“What can we do to make it easier to live in 2024, and live a very full life that isn’t just professional, that also has this kind of rich personal life and community behind it.”
Usha, the first-generation daughter of two Indian immigrants, shares two young children with the Republican VP nominee. Usha and J.D. first met at Yale University, where they were both attending law school.
You can watch a clip of her interview here:
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