WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance re-upped his call for Nazi-loving troll Nick Fuentes to “eat sh—,” but declined to denounce his followers, the “groypers,” pleading ignorance about who they are.
Fuentes, who has openly fawned over evil dictators like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, cruelly hurled a racist slur at second lady Usha Vance over her Indian heritage, something that prompted the veep’s condemnation of him last year.
“Of course I do,” Vance insisted to the Daily Mail when asked if he condemns Fuentes. “He can eat sh— because anybody who goes after my family, whatever side they’re on, they’re on the opposite side of me.”
The hateful groyper boss, who is of Italian, Irish and Mexican descent, had openly questioned why Vance should be the heir apparent leader of the Make America Great Again Movement, given that he’s a “race mixer.”
Vance ripped into Fuentes last December, telling UnHerd, “Let me be clear, anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat s–t.”
Usha, who is set to welcome the second couple’s fourth child in July, is the first second lady in over 150 years to be pregnant while her husband is in office.
“Never Vance,” Fuentes posted on X Thursday in what appeared to be a response to the veep’s Daily Mail interview.
Despite his denunciation of Fuentes, Vance demurred on the groypers, Fuentes’ army of sexist and racist internet trolls, poking at the notion that the far-right agitator has supporters like a political candidate.
“What do you mean by supporters?” Vance shot back when pressed about whether the groypers should be accepted into the Republican Party.
“Well, I don’t know what that means,” he added. “I think people are going to vote for us or not vote for us. I think that there are certain things that we should have the moral clarity to condemn. I think Jew hatred is disgusting.”
Fuentes is particularly infamous for his anti-semitism, having suggested, without any evidence, that “the Holocaust is exaggerated,” and claiming that “there’s a Jewish conspiracy.”
The Hitler-adoring troll helped fuel a civil war within the conservative and MAGA movement last year. The rift opened up after pundit Tucker Carlson gave a viral softball interview to Fuentes that drew fierce rebukes from Ben Shapiro and others.
Both Vance and President Trump largely steered clear of that spat, though the veep, who will need to keep the coalition together if he vies for president in 2028, decried cancel culture within conservatism.
“I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform,” Vance chided at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest last year. “Let me just say the best way to honor Charlie [Kirk] is that none of us here should be doing something after Charlie’s death that he himself refused to do in life.”
Fuentes has vowed to turn his groypers against Vance and deploy them against him in early states if the veep denounced them.
Vance decried the hateful ideology that Fuentes and his followers practice.
“You shouldn’t hate people because they’re white. You shouldn’t hate people because they’re Jewish. You shouldn’t hate people because they’re black,” Vance told the Daily Mail.
“And I don’t like anybody who does that or engages in that stuff. So when you say supporters of this or that person, all I can do is say what I believe, take the moral stance and the policy stance that I believe in.”
