Vice President J.D. Vance has come out swinging after Jewish Insider published a piece about the reaction from Republican lawmakers on comments he made in a Signal text chain that inadvertently included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic on it.

Vance said the story was a “hit piece” from an “anti-JD rag.”

“It has many problems, including seven anonymous quotes from cowardly Republicans,” Vance wrote on X. “But the most glaring factual error is the below, which says the Houthis killed three Americans last January. Actually, the group responsible for that attack was “Islamic Resistance in Iraq,” which is an entirely different militia group. Now, you might say this is evidence of Kraushaar being the biggest hack in Washington, and you *may* be correct. Another very plausible explanation is that he’s the dumbest journalist in Washington. Either way, shocking an error like this could get through his vaunted editorial process!”

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