Vice President JD Vance confirmed he writes his own social media posts, taking responsibility for both good and mean posts. On Thursday, JD wrote a long post on X defending President Donald Trump's stand on the Russia-Ukraine war and how a quote from a book about George HW Bush from a different historical period does not apply to the present scenarios.
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