Trump VP hopeful claims ex-president is ‘clearly a good husband’

One of Donald Trump’sleading running mate contenders declared on Sunday that the former president, who was found liable by a jury for sexually abusing a woman and also paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover up affairs with a porn star and a Playboy model, is “clearly a good husband”.

Republican Senator JD Vance appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press for a wide-ranging interview with moderator Kristen Welker where he seemingly conducted his latest audition for the role of Trump’s vice president.

His comments about Trump as a positive father and a husband came in response to a question from Welker about a line from his book, Hillbilly Elegy, in which Vance describes former President Barack Obama as a “good husband”.

“I grew up in a broken family, Kristen,” said Vance. “And I just wanted to be a good husband and dad and certainly Barack Obama, despite my many political disagreements with him, he's clearly a good husband and a father.”

He added: “By the way, I'd say the same thing about Donald Trump, whose children love him.”

“I think this is one of the things the media often misses about Trump, is how genuinely devoted he is to his family, to his grandchildren, and how part of his pro-life messaging, his fundamental pro-life view, is that we ought to make it easier for more American families to have those thriving children and thriving families,” the senator continued.

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says he has “not gotten the call” asking him to be former President Donald Trump’s running mate.

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His comments starkly contrast with the known history of Donald