• Vance is clever, but an unlikeable and maladroit liar with a moral compass that twists in the wind. Jamelle Bouie puts Vance’s flaws on full display in his NY Times opinion piece This Is How Far Vance Will Go to Sell a Lie. An excerpt:
“During the presidential campaign, Vance defended his decision to slander the Haitian immigrants of Springfield, Ohio — to disparage and lie about them for political gain — by telling reporters that he would “create stories” if that’s what he had to do to get the news media’s attention. And here he is again, creating stories. In this case, however, it is less to get the attention of the press and more to defend the administration’s open contempt for the rule of law.”