JD Vance, the newly elected vp of the US, on Saturday criticised information company Related Press (AP) for allegedly attacking Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s choose for secretary of protection, over a Christian motto tattooed on his arm. Vance accused the company of displaying “anti-Christian bigotry” within the matter.Vance reacted to a publish shared by AP Pentagon correspondent Tara Copp on the social media platform X, by which she stated that Hegseth, a Fox Information host and Military Nationwide Guard veteran, was flagged as a potential “insider menace” by a fellow service member attributable to his tattoo. Copp additionally shared a hyperlink to the AP report supporting the declare.“Pete Hegseth, the Military Nationwide Guard veteran and Fox Information host nominated by Donald Trump to guide the Division of Protection, was flagged as a potential ‘insider menace’ by a fellow service member attributable to a tattoo he has that’s related to white supremacists,” Copp posted on X.Reacting to Copp’s publish, Vance known as it “disgusting anti-Christian bigotry” from AP and stated that your complete information group needs to be “ashamed” of itself.“They’re attacking Pete Hegseth for having a Christian motto tattooed on his arm. That is disgusting anti-Christian bigotry from the AP, and your complete group needs to be ashamed of itself,” Vance wrote.Pete Hegseth is going through criticism over a tattoo on his bicep that some declare is linked to a white supremacist group. The tattoo reads “Deus Vult,” a phrase traditionally related to the Crusades and not too long ago adopted by sure white nationalist teams.Beforehand, in July, AP retracted an article that fact-checked claims alleging JD Vance had written about “having intercourse with a sofa” in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.
