John Oliver on JD Vance’s Springfield claims: ‘He’s pretty good at parroting racist lies’
Last Week Tonight host discusses Vance’s lies about Haitian immigrants and social security disability benefits issues
John Oliver opened Sunday’s Last Week Tonight with an excoriation of Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance’s lies about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, whom they have falsely accused of eating people’s pets.
“Can you even remember a time when something like that would have been disqualifying?” the host wondered. “Because I can’t any more. Republicans have now nominated Trump three times. Democrats have so far lost to him half the time. And the election is still inexplicably close because unfortunately, some Americans watched [the debate] and thought, ‘I don’t like how Kamala laughed when he called immigrants dog eaters. That wasn’t very presidential.’”
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