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The Associated Press just published Soviet-style lies about JD Vance

For years, I wasn’t a fan of the reflex “fake news” retort of MAGA that usually followed any anti-conservative story. But these days, there’s no other way to say it: the media is just fake news.

Yesterday, Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance addressed the latest horrific school shooting new out of Georgia, and here’s how The Associated Press reported it:

“JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security.”

What an asshole, right?!

And everyone jumped on it.

Kamala Harris’s campaign reported that JD Vance responded “to the deadly shooting in Georgia by saying school shootings are just ‘a fact of life.’”

Kamala Harris responded, saying “school shootings are not just a fact of life,” that “it doesn’t have to be this way,” and that “we can take action to protect our children—and we will.”

Tim Walz said “This is pathetic. We can’t quit on our kids — they deserve better.”

The Harris/Walz campaign even released a statement!

Gavin Newsom accused JD Vance of “shrugging his shoulders” while “kids are being killed.” Huffington Post reported that “JD Vance Calls School Shootings A ‘Fact of Life.’” Self-described “journalist” — weird way to describe sitting on social media all day reposting other people’s videos — Aaron Rupar responded with a picture of JD Vance behind bullet-proof glass with the caption, “a picture of the guy who says shootings are a ‘fact of life.’”

There’s just one problem: it’s all bullshit.

Here’s what JD Vance actually said:

“I don’t like this. I don’t like to admit this. I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you’re a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets and we have got to bolster security at our schools so that a person who walks through the front door to kill a bunch of children, they’re not able to.”

Oops!