JD Vance issues stern warning: ‘Don’t come after my wife’

JD Vance defends wife Usha from white supremacist attacksABC

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00:00So, there's been a lot of talk about racism and whatnot.

00:04You faced some really nasty stuff.

00:06I saw this thing that Nick Fuentes, of course, he's an avowed white supremacist.

00:12He said, what kind of a man marries somebody named Usha?

00:15Clearly, he doesn't value his racial identity, his heritage.

00:18I mean, this is racist garbage.

00:19Yes, it is.

00:21But this is also a guy that dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago during this campaign.

00:26Well, Donald Trump doesn't know anything about and frankly doesn't care for.

00:30But yeah, look, my attitude to these people attacking my wife is, she's beautiful, she's

00:34smart.

00:35What kind of man marries Usha?

00:36A very smart man and a very lucky man, importantly.

00:40And my view is, look, if these guys want to attack me or attack my views, my policy views,

00:44my personality, come after me.

00:46But don't attack my wife.

00:47She's out of your league.

00:49But I mean, that dinner that Trump had, and of course, it was Kanye West, the guy that's

00:54raised Hitler, who arranged it all, that was back a year and a half ago.

01:00And Trump still hasn't given a full-throated denouncement of this guy who is, said that

01:07terrible stuff.

01:08But he said, I mean, he's a white supremacist.

01:09Look, I think President Trump has issued plenty of condemnations on this.

01:13The one thing that I like about Donald Trump, John, is that he actually will talk to anybody.

01:20But just because you talk to somebody doesn't mean you endorse their views.

01:22And look, I mean, Donald Trump spent a lot of quality time with my wife.

01:26Every time he sees her, he gives her a hug, tells her she's beautiful, and jokes around

01:28with her a little bit.

01:29I'm not at all worried about Donald Trump.

01:32I'm worried sometimes about these ridiculous attacks.

01:34But again, this is what you sign up for when you come into politics.

01:37I wish people would keep it focused on me, but whatever.

01:40They're going to say what they're going to say.

01:41My wife's tough enough to handle it, and that's a good thing.