• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    There was a fake story that he wrote about humping a couch in his book, Hillbilly Elegy.

    It’s been completely debunked, but people still talk about it because it’s funny.

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      3 months ago

      Theres more to it. AP published a fact check titled something like “No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch”.

      Later they took this down because they were unable confirm he did not have sex with a couch, only that he did not say so in his book.

      As you can guess, this added a lot of fuel to the fire.

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      3 months ago

      now there’s a new one that it was in the first edition and removed from later editions. also made up as far as I can tell