“I’m a ‘never Trump’ guy. I never liked him.”
“My god what an idiot.”
“I find him reprehensible.”
That was from JD Vance in interviews and on Twitter in 2016, when the publication of his memoir Hillbilly Elegy catapulted him to fame.
In the same year, he wrote privately to an associate on Facebook: "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole ... or that he's America's Hitler".
A few short years later, Mr Vance transformed himself into one of Trump’s steadfast allies.
