JD Vance betrays American values with Afghan ally rant

Published August 24, 2021 4:05pm ET



On Monday, Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance disgracefully said that the United States should deprioritize the evacuation of Afghans who assisted the United States in Afghanistan.

In a video posted to Twitter, Vance, who served in the Marine Corps, ranted about how the U.S. needed to focus on Americans first. His implication: The U.S. should not simultaneously evacuate Americans and our Afghan allies, and, presumably, that U.S. military flights should leave half empty.

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