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'Beyond a lie': JD Vance slammed by fact-checker over 'shameless' speech

Vance Didn’t Stumble Into the Truth. He Stepped Around It.A Speech Built to MisleadIn Milwaukee, J.D. Vance used a speech about a government-funded prenatal healthcare program and a fraud case involving Markita Barnes to manufacture a simple Republican morality play: Democrats supposedly enable fraud, Republicans supposedly fight it. That framing is the point of the performance. It is not a slip. It is a partisan rewrite of who did what, when, and under whose power.Power Sat With Trump’s TeamThe key institutional fact is not decorative. The indictment Vance tried to claim credit for happened…

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