LANSING — In case you missed it, Michigan attorney Sofia Nelson — a longtime friend of Trump’s VP pick JD Vance — is speaking up to warn Michigan voters about Vance’s true character. Nelson bluntly told Bridge Michigan: “The fact that Mr. Vance has turned his back on what I believe to be his core values in order to amass money and power is a reflection on his integrity and trustworthiness… I felt a duty to my community to give them information, to be able to make an informed decision.”
We already knew that Trump doesn’t care about anything besides helping himself, but Nelson makes it clear that Vance is just as bad, if not worse, than Trump. He has no problem abandoning all principles for the sake of power, and he has no business anywhere near the vice presidency. While Trump and Vance are clearly a perfect match for each other, they are perfectly wrong for Michigan.
Read more from the story below:
Bridge Michigan: Detroit lawyer: My friend, JD Vance, ditched beliefs for ‘money and power’
- A Michigan attorney is stepping into the national spotlight by releasing personal emails that she says reveal the “political opportunism” of JD Vance, the Ohio Republican now serving as former President Donald Trump’s running mate.
- Listening to his current rhetoric “really broke my heart,” Sofia Nelson told Bridge Michigan on Sunday… A month before Trump was elected president in 2016, Vance called him “such a fucking disaster” in an email to Nelson. “He’s just a bad man,” Vance wrote at the time. “A morally reprehensible human being…”
- “The fact that Mr. Vance has turned his back on what I believe to be his core values in order to amass money and power is a reflection on his integrity and trustworthiness,” Nelson told Bridge. “I felt a duty to my community to give them information, to be able to make an informed decision…”
- Nelson now works as a public defender in Detroit after previously working at the Michigan State Appellate Defender Office. She said she isn’t interested in attention despite the national attention her story has already generated… Her desire to speak up and share her past communications with Vance came from her own background, she said, and a love for Michigan.
- “We are home to the largest Muslim population in the United States, we certainly have many LGBTQ residents. Over half the state is women, and these are all constituencies that would suffer under Vance’s leadership,” she told Bridge.
- Nelson said Vance has changed his stances on abortion, gay marriage, rights for transgender people, immigration and policing tactics…
- “I hate the police,” he [JD Vance] wrote. “Given the number of negative experiences I’ve had in the past few years, I can’t imagine what a black guy goes through.”… Throughout 2015 and 2016, Vance and Nelson discussed Trump’s political rise, and misgivings Vance had about the soon-to-be president’s impact on the nation. “The more white people feel like voting for Trump, the more black people will suffer,” he wrote Nelson in September 2016. “I really believe that.”
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