Jennifer Welch on Racist GOP Group Chat: If J.D. Vance Won’t Defend His Wife and Mixed Race Kids, ‘Do You Think He Gives a Crap About You?’

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WELCH: "Well, here’s two things about J.D. Vance. Number one, he used to say Trump is America’s Hitler. So, he has regressed. And then number two, he is married to a woman of Indian descent."

HAYES: "He is."

WELCH: "He has mixed-race children. So to all of the MAGA voters out there, if this man will not defend his wife and will not defend his kids, do you think he gives a crap about you or anything to do with you? What I see with J.D. Vance and all of the people around Trump is the minute they capitulate to him, they give it just an inch, they completely morally collapse. Everybody that comes into his orbit becomes a worse person. Marco Rubio, J.D. Vance, I think Stephen Miller was probably born terrible, but he’s gotten worse, and that’s how low that bar was. The moral rot on display that we see, this is intentional. They are flexing the authoritarian muscle. And they all have to make up for something because the strong man is frail, the strong man has cankles, he’s got bruises on his hands, he’s got dementia. So now his acolytes are coming out acting like big, tough guys to try to keep the facade up because there are fissures all over the place in the MAGA movement right now."