JD Vance
Vice President
8 findings
What the labels mean
- ConvictedA criminal jury found them guilty.
- Found liableA civil jury ruled against them.
- Court ruledA judge ruled against them or their policy.
- Watchdog foundAn inspector general, Congress's auditors at the GAO or UN investigators.
- AdmittedThey acknowledged it, or their own government's records and court filings show it.
- On recordSomething they said or did in public.
- ReportedNews reporting they deny or haven't confirmed.
- AllegedAccusations in lawsuits, complaints or from sources. Unproven.
Admitted or on record 7
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On record
He spread the claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets.
He posted that pets had been “abducted and eaten.” Springfield police said there were “no credible reports.”
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On record
An ICE officer shot and killed Renee Good, a US citizen, in Minneapolis. Vance called it “a tragedy of her own making.”
The day after the shooting, while it was still under investigation, he said the officer is “protected by absolute immunity.” Video doesn’t make clear whether her car hit the officer.
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On record
In the Oval Office, he told Zelensky to “offer some words of appreciation.”
Trump and Vance gesture at Zelensky, who sits with his arms crossed, in the Oval Office, February 28, 2025. The White House He called it “disrespectful” for Zelensky to “come to the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media,” and said Zelensky had “campaigned for the opposition.” Russia’s war on Ukraine was in its fourth year.
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On record
He was in the Signal chat where strike plans went to a journalist.
Afterward he said The Atlantic’s editor had “oversold” it.
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On record
When told a deadly boat strike might be a war crime, he answered: “I don’t give a shit what you call it.”
He had posted that killing cartel members is “the highest and best use of our military.” Republican Sen. Rand Paul called his reply “a despicable and thoughtless sentiment.”
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On record
On January 6 rioters: “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.” Eight days later Trump pardoned them, and Vance defended it.
He said it on Fox News Sunday, while allowing a “bit of a gray area” in some cases. After the blanket pardons, he told CBS he and Trump had seen a “massive denial of due process” in the cases, though he said violence against police was “not justified.”
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Admitted
“We absolutely screwed up the comms of the Epstein files.”
He told Joe Rogan it wasn’t because they were “trying to hide something,” and largely pointed to Pam Bondi, who he said “overstated what we had and what we didn’t have.”
Reported and alleged 1
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Reported
He privately pushed to send troops into Minnesota under the Insurrection Act, the New York Times reported.
The New York Times, drawing on a book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, wrote that he said they needed to invoke the Insurrection Act “swiftly, to crush the unrest in Minnesota” after agents killed Alex Pretti. White House aide Will Scharf argued against it. No response from Vance was reported.