Donald Trump Jr. called out a reporter on Friday for posting a misleading clip of Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) speaking a few years ago about immigration.
Reporter Jacqueline Sweet posted a clip on X from an interview that Vance, who is Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, gave in 2021 where he was asked about what negatives can come from large waves of immigration.
In the clip posted by Sweet, Vance talked about large waves of immigration from Europe to the U.S. over a hundred years ago, specifically Italian, German, and Irish immigrants.
“And that had had its problems, right?” Vance said. “It had its consequences. You had higher crime rates. You had these sort of ethnic enclaves developing. You had interethnic conflict in the country where you really hadn’t had that.”
However, the clip cut off Vance before he said that the U.S. adjusted to the problem by slowing…
