Resurfaced emails show JD Vance calling Trump ‘morally reprehensible’ years before they became the GOP ticket

JD Vance’s evolution from Donald Trump critic to the former president’s running mate is under the spotlight as resurfaced emails reveal that he once privately considered Trump a “demagogue,” a “disaster” and a “morally reprehensible human being.”

Vance sent the emails, obtained by the New York Times, from 2014 to 2017 to his friend and Yale Law School classmate Sofia Nelson. The exchanges capture Vance condemning Trump’s character, policies and rhetoric in no uncertain terms.

In an October 4, 2016, the Ohio Republican called the then-Republican candidate a “disaster.”

Vance wrote: “He’s just a bad man. A morally reprehensible human being.”

That email was sent three days before the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape, in which Trump admitted that he liked to “grab ‘em by the p****.”

In a separate email exchange on December 9, 2015, Nelson and Vance discussed Trump’s take on Muslim citizens after Trump had called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

Vance wrote his friend: “I’m obviously outraged at Trump’s rhetoric, and I worry most of all about how welcome Muslim citizens feel in their own country. But I also think that people have always believed crazy s*** (I remember a poll from a few years back suggesting that a near majority of democratic voters blamed ‘the Jews’ for the financial crisis).”

He continued: “And there have always been demagogues willing to exploit the people who believe crazy s***. What seems different to me is that the Republican Party offers nothing that’s as attractive as the demagogue.”

That same month, Vance discussed Trump’s appeal to voters.

“If you look at the polling, the issue where Trump gets the most support is on the economy,” Vance wrote. “If the