JD Vance goes all in on the justified lie - The Washington Post

It's also worth emphasizing just how far removed that reality is from what Trump continues to say about the situation. Trump has said not only that apartment complexes were taken over, but that the gang "took over large sections of a town, large sections of an area of Colorado." He mentioned Aurora at the debate while accusing migrants of "taking over the towns." 

The difference here isn't between taking over a city and taking over some apartment complexes; it's between taking over a city and taking over … nothing. 

Vance's argument is apparently that Trump is using some license here to highlight a real issue — to use a falsehood to draw attention to an underlying truth. As with Springfield, he's suggesting that the political ends justify the dishonest means...

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