JD Vance, the newly elected vp of the US, on Saturday criticised information company Related Press (AP) for allegedly attacking Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s choose for secretary of protection, over a Christian motto tattooed on his arm. Vance accused the company of displaying “anti-Christian bigotry” within the matter.
Vance reacted to a submit shared by AP Pentagon correspondent Tara Copp on the social media platform X, during which she mentioned that Hegseth, a Fox Information host and Military Nationwide Guard veteran, was flagged as a attainable “insider risk” by a fellow service member resulting from his tattoo. Copp additionally shared a hyperlink to the AP report supporting the declare.
“Pete Hegseth, the Military Nationwide Guard veteran and Fox Information host nominated by Donald Trump to guide the Division of Protection, was flagged as a attainable ‘insider risk’ by a fellow service member resulting from a tattoo he has that’s related to white supremacists,” Copp posted on X.
Reacting to Copp’s submit, Vance known as it “disgusting anti-Christian bigotry” from AP and mentioned that all the information group ought to be “ashamed” of itself.
“They’re attacking Pete Hegseth for having a Christian motto tattooed on his arm. That is disgusting anti-Christian bigotry from the AP, and all the group ought to be ashamed of itself,” Vance wrote.
Pete Hegseth is dealing with criticism over a tattoo on his bicep that some declare is linked to a white supremacist group. The tattoo reads “Deus Vult,” a phrase traditionally related to the Crusades and just lately adopted by sure white nationalist teams.
Beforehand, in July, AP retracted an article that fact-checked claims alleging JD Vance had written about “having intercourse with a sofa” in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.
