Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and CNN anchor Dana Bash got into a heated back-and-forth Sunday over an untrue claim of Haitians eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
In the interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Bash noted that Vance is “the senator from Ohio” and “not just a bystander.”
“So, instead of saying things that are wrong and actually causing the hospitals, the schools, the government buildings to be evacuated because of bomb threats, because of the cats and dogs thing, why not actually be constructive in helping to better integrate them into the community, because [there are] a lot of employers there who say that the Haitian workers are helping fill jobs that they need desperately filled?” Bash said.
“Dana, first of all, let me just respond to a couple of things that you said, but I wanna start with something you said, which I think is frankly disgusting and is more appropriate for a Democratic propagandist than it is for an American journalist,” Vance responded. “There is nothing that I have said that has led to threats against these hospitals. These hospitals, the bomb threats, and so forth, it’s disgusting. The violence is disgusting. We condemn it. We condemn all violence.”