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The Dispatch’s Kevin Williamson dismissed Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance as “Cleetus the Gap-Toothed Twitter Troll” in a scathing piece penned after a visit to Springfield, Ohio.
Vance and his running mate, former President Donald Trump , have in recent days promoted unfounded claims that Haitian migrants residing in Springfield are eating residents’ pet cats and dogs.
Williamson explained that he traveled to the town “to report on a story that isn’t happening.”
After beginning with a description of the Haitians before revealing that he was actually talking about “JD Vance’s hillbilly ancestors,” Williamson made another comparison, this one between between Vance and Nazi propagandist Fritz Hippler before declaring that “You can send little J.D. to Yale to make him polished, you can send him to Silicon Valley to make him rich, and you can send him to the Senate to make him powerful, but you cannot stop him from being what it is he apparently wants to be: Cleetus the Gap-Toothed Twitter Troll.”