Vice President J.D. Vance stated on Tuesday that he only believes in conspiracy theories that are “true” in response to a question about a report that White House chief of staff Susie Wiles called him a “conspiracy theorist.”
Vanity Fair published its interview with Wiles on Tuesday where it quoted her saying that Vance has “been a conspiracy theorist for a decade,” though she later called the article a “disingenuously framed hit piece” on the administration. During a speech in Pennsylvania, Vance told a reporter with The Washington Post that he has believed many things deemed conspiracies by the media, but then later turned out to be true.
“Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true. And by the way, Susie and I have joked in private and in public about that for a long time. For example, I believed in the crazy conspiracy theory back in 2020 that it was stupid to mask three-year-olds at the height of the COVID pandemic, that we should actually let them develop some language skills. I believed in this crazy conspiracy theory that the media and the government were covering up the fact that Joe Biden was clearly unable to do the job.”
“And I believed in the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was trying to throw his political opponents in jail rather than win an argument against his political opponents,” Vance continued. “So, at least on some of these conspiracy theories, it turns out that a conspiracy theory is just something that was true six months before the media admitted it.”
After the article was published, Wiles said the report left out “significant context” likely to “paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative” about the administration.
“The article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history. Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story. I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team,” Wiles wrote on X.
