The White House Tried Their Best To Blame Someone Else For JD Vance's Screw-Up, But It Turns Out He's The "Dumb Ass" After All

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It seems similar some Vice President JD Vance and the White House are down 2 beauteous glaring mistakes.

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Vance appeared successful Milwaukee connected Wednesday to present a code promoting the Trump administration’s crackdown connected payment fraud. Several minutes into the speech, Vance flipped implicit a ample poster that had been sitting onstage — revealing what seemed to beryllium a photograph of Markita Barnes, a Wisconsin pistillate who was convicted successful March connected 10 counts of healthcare fraud; however, the venue’s lighting appeared to obscure the image.

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Vance seemingly did not recognize that helium had conscionable committed an onstage blunder, and continued his speech. “Now, I privation to beryllium wide that the pistillate successful the backmost did thing wrong,” Vance said, referring to a expected bystander successful the photo.

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“But look astatine this pistillate successful the beforehand with the smug look and the Louis Vuitton bag. A pistillate who rather virtually stole from young mothers who needed prenatal care,” Vance added.

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The White House Rapid Response 47 relationship was swift successful its response. It should beryllium noted that @RapidResponse47 was launched by the Trump medication to combat and clasp “the Fake News accountable,” astatine slightest according to its bio.

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“Your dumb ass is shielding a transgression who stole $2.4 cardinal successful taxpayer-funded benefits meant to assistance at-risk large women and women with young kids,” the Rapid Response 47 relationship wrote, re-tweeting Torabi’s clip and providing a wide representation of the photograph of Barnes. “She’s spending the adjacent decennary successful national situation acknowledgment to this Administration’s relentless enactment to extremity the fraud.”

Your dumb ass is shielding a transgression who stole $2.4 cardinal successful taxpayer-funded benefits meant to assistance at-risk large women and women with young kids.

She's spending the adjacent decennary successful national situation acknowledgment to this Administration's relentless enactment to extremity the fraud. https://t.co/wZKOIHWQoz pic.twitter.com/vBTsSIoftF

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 8, 2026

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MeidasTouch instantly defended Torabi against the White House’s assertion that helium took it upon himself to edit the video truthful that the photograph couldn’t beryllium seen.

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“Um... Do they deliberation @Acyn blurred their faces? It was Vance who obscured her by placing the committee the mode helium did. The White House fundamentally conscionable called Vance a ‘dumb ass,’” the outlet’s tweet reads. Getty besides published a changeable of the snafu, and its photograph shows the aforesaid glare.

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The White House’s ain YouTube relationship besides seems to backmost up MeidasTouch and Torabi’s claim.

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In its video of Vance’s speech, erstwhile the vice president archetypal flips the poster over, the photograph is intelligibly disposable for a little moment. Once Vance places the photograph connected an easel, the representation is instantly glared retired by the lights and appears to enactment that mode for the remainder of his speech.

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It seems @RapidResponse47’s screenshot shared connected X was apt taken during that little infinitesimal of clarity earlier the photograph gets wiped retired by the lights. Although the White House’s screenshot appears to beryllium from Fox News’ sum of Vance’s speech, this HuffPost newsman was besides capable to seizure a wide ocular arsenic good from the White House’s authoritative footage.

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HuffPost has reached retired to the White House for remark but has not yet received an contiguous response.

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