{"id":2302324,"date":"2024-07-20T11:29:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T15:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-slams-jd-vances-anti-trump-record-on-bill-maher-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T15:30:54","slug":"buttigieg-criticizes-jd-vances-anti-trump-stance-on-bill-maher-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-criticizes-jd-vances-anti-trump-stance-on-bill-maher-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttigieg criticizes JD Vance&#8217;s anti-Trump stance on Bill Maher &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbuttigieg-criticizes-jd-vances-anti-trump-stance-on-bill-maher-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2302324&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized Republican Vice Presidential nominee \u2063J.D. Vance for his previous anti-Trump stance on Bill Maher&#8217;s \u2064show. Buttigieg \u200baccused Vance of being more of \u200can opportunist rather than a reformed Trump critic. Vance, known for his memoir &#8220;Hillbilly Elegy,&#8221; \u200chad called Trump a \u2062&#8221;total \u2062fraud&#8221; and a &#8220;moral \u2063disaster&#8221; in the past. Buttigieg also pointed out Vance&#8217;s comments on Trump and the opioid crisis, drawing attention to \u200bthe dark implications of such \u200cstatements. Maher also \u200draised questions about Vance&#8217;s support from Peter Thiel and Vance&#8217;s opposition to gay marriage. \u200dButtigieg highlighted the contradictions in\u200c Vance&#8217;s positions, questioning his authenticity and principles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Buttigieg slams JD Vance&rsquo;s anti-Trump record on Bill Maher<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1707855\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Transportation Secretary and former Democratic Presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pete-buttigieg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Pete Buttigieg\">Pete Buttigieg<\/a> slammed Republican Vice President nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Pete Buttigieg\">J.D. Vance<\/a> for his prior statements against former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the air with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bill-maher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bill Maher\">Bill Maher<\/a> on Friday, Buttigieg implied that Vance is more of an opportunist than a reformed Trump-loyalist despite being in Trump&rsquo;s good graces since he won his Senate race in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Citing their shared midwest roots, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, criticized Vance as a person &ldquo;who would say whatever they needed to to get ahead.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ca-governor-breaks-his-own-covid-rules-to-eat-fancy-french-food\/\" title=\"Ca. Governor Breaks His Own COVID Rules To Eat Fancy French Food\">years ago<\/a>, that seemed like being the anti-Trump Republican, so that&rsquo;s what he talked about,&rdquo; Buttigieg said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He&rsquo;s so good at this. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zGlvgxKcoV\">pic.twitter.com\/zGlvgxKcoV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keithedwards\/status\/1814505331512262987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The 39-year-old senator from Ohio rose to national prominence in 2016 following the publication of his memoir <em>Hillbilly Elegy<\/em>,&rdquo; which had strong themes of the slow demise of Appalachian culture.<\/p>\n<p>In the early stages of his political career, Vance was a strong critic of Trump, calling him a &ldquo;total fraud,&rdquo; a &ldquo;moral disaster,&rdquo; and &ldquo;America&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Hitler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Hitler<\/a>.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vance, during this period, also referred to Trump and the cult of personality surrounding the current Republican nominee as an &ldquo;opioid,&rdquo; a phrase on which Buttigieg pounced.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>opioid<\/a> comment from Vance &ldquo;kind of a weird thing to say about a person&rdquo; to uproarious laughter from Maher&rsquo;s audience.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But I mean, for somebody whose identity is that they&rsquo;re connected to Appalachia, which has an opioid crisis, that really is the darkest thing you could possibly say about Donald Trump,&rdquo; said Buttigieg.<\/p>\n<p>Although not referenced by Buttigieg or Maher, Vance&rsquo;s personal history with his mother&rsquo;s drug addiction, a main thread in his memoir, also adds weight to the criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Maher also asked Vance about Vance&rsquo;s supporter and primary financial backer, the founder of PayPal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/peter-thiel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Peter Thiel\">Peter Thiel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thiel, like Buttigieg, married his longtime partner, and Maher highlighted that Vance is opposed to gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigeig said Thiel&rsquo;s and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/beltway-confidential\/3085402\/the-rise-of-the-silicon-valley-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Silicon Valley\">Silicon Valley<\/a> billionaires&rsquo;s backing of a Trump-Vance ticket is &ldquo;not that complicated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These are very rich men who have decided to go back to the Republican Party that tends to do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/officials-calling-for-investigation-into-capitol-protest\/\" title=\"Officials calling for investigation into Capitol protest\">good things<\/a> for very rich men,&rdquo; said Buttigieg. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s kind of what you&rsquo;re getting with J.D.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg compared Vance&rsquo;s flip-flop to that of former Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-pence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Mike Pence\">Mike Pence<\/a>, who Buttigieg characterized as compromising his Evangelical values to support Trump, &ldquo;who was mixed up with a port star.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title> <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Transportation Secretary added that although Pence got his &ldquo;four glorious years&rdquo; as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Vice-President\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a><\/a>, &ldquo;it ended on the west front of the Capitol with Trump supporters proposing that he be hanged for using the one shred of integrity he still had to stand up to an attempt to overthrow the government.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So I guess maybe not as a politician, but as a human being. What I&rsquo;ll say is that I hope things work out a little bit better for J.D. Vance,&rdquo; Buttigieg said.<\/p>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1707855\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1707855\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buttigieg criticized J.D. Vance for his past anti-Trump statements, suggesting that Vance is more of an opportunist than a reformed Trump supporter. Buttigieg pointed out Vance&#8217;s previous criticism of Trump and his association with wealthy backers like Peter Thiel. 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