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Americans have long believed that the mainstream media is full of partisan hacks and the Associated Press proved that point with a twisted take on JD Vance’s comments concerning the tragic shooting at a Georgia high school this past week.

A spokesman for the Republican vice presidential candidate, William Martin, hammered the AP for a grossly misleading headline that tried to portray Vance as heartlessly dismissing school shootings as a “fact of life.”

“This is yet another case of the fake news media brazenly lying about a Republican politician. Senator Vance said exactly the opposite of what the Associated Press claimed,” Martin told Fox News Digital.

“It should come as no surprise that the AP lost any and all credibility it had years ago because they will lie about literally anything in order to prop up the Democrats. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris has called for all police officers to be removed from schools, putting children all over America at risk. It’s yet another example of how Kamala Harris’s weak, failed, and dangerously liberal agenda makes her unfit for office,” he bluntly added.

A video of Vance speaking at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona concerning the recent mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia on Wednesday, where two students and two teachers were killed, was cherry-picked by the media in an attempt to make him look bad. It backfired rather spectacularly since the full clip was put on social media for all to see and judge for themselves.

“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” Vance commented during the rally. “But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security, so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they’re not able.”

Contrast that with the AP headline claiming that Vance called the school shootings a “fact of life,” making it sound as if he didn’t care about them when in reality he cares very much and wants more security to stop the schools from being soft targets for murderous evil nutjobs.

“JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security,” AP’s headline on X read before it was deleted, altered and reposted. A community note was proposed that pointed out, “Misleading headline: The full quote is, ‘I don’t like that this is a fact of life.’”

After the AP was caught with its hand in the misinformation cookie jar by X, it deleted the post and replaced it with a new headline, “JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a ‘fact of life’ and calls for better security.”

“This post replaces an earlier post that was deleted to add context to the partial quote from Vance,” the AP lamely acknowledged.

Naturally, the Harris-Walz campaign seized on the AP’s biased reporting and immediately attempted to savage Vance and former President Trump.

“Yesterday, Vice President Harris said ‘It doesn’t have to be this way’ in response to another senseless school shooting. Donald Trump and JD Vance think school shootings are a ‘fact of life’ and ‘we have to get over it,’” Harris-Walz 2024 spokesperson Ammar Moussa charged in a statement.

“Vice President Harris and Governor Walz know we can take action to keep our children safe and keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Donald Trump and JD Vance will always choose the NRA and gun lobby over our children. That is the choice in this election,” Moussa asserted.

Harris wasn’t going to let the opportunity to smear her opponents slip by either, “School shootings are not just a fact of life. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can take action to protect our children—and we will.”

Vance fittingly responded, “Kamala wants to take security out of our schools instead of protecting our children. Instead of addressing her own failures, she lies about what I said. More desperation from the biggest fraud in American politics.”

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