Mother Jones editor ripped as ‘soulless ghoul' for saying JD Vance's kids deserve to get heckled at Disneyland
Clara Jeffrey took to social media after footage emerged of protestors heckling the Vance family as they soaked up The Happiest Place on Earth over the weekend.
3 Mother Jones editor Clara Jeffrey was ripped as a 'soulless ghoul' for her recent comments about JD Vance and his family.
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'People who feel bad for JD Vance's kids as family gets booed at Disneyland. I get it, but better those kids know now what their father is about. Other kids are watching their parents get shipped off to gulags,' Jeffrey posted on Bluesky.
'Also, JD Vance knows he's going to be booed at Disneyland or the Kennedy Center or wherever. He doesn't have to go with his kids, but…he probably wants the optics of his family being booed. So…yeah.'
The backlash was swift with many blasting the editor in chief for seemingly giving bullies the green-light to target the vice president's kids — who are just 3, 5 and 8 years old.
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'WTF is wrong with these people!??? Donald Trump Jr. raged on X.
3 Vance recently took a trip to the Anaheim park with his wife and children.
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3 Vance's are just 3, 5 and 8 years old.
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'Imagine the type of soulless ghoul you have to be to say this…Imagine being the Editor in Chief of Mother Jones Magazine,' Andrew Surabian, a GOP strategist, added.
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Others, too, piled on with some slamming her and other liberal critics as imbeciles.
'Those kids are seeing for themselves that those people are animals. They watch their father and mother serve their country and they learn that there is good and there is evil. Guess what side you're on?' one said.
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