Moment Trump's VP frontrunner JD Vance said he believed woman who claimed ex-President groped her as video from 2016 is unearthed

A frontrunner to beryllium Donald Trump's moving mate successful nan statesmanlike election erstwhile implied he believed a female who accused nan erstwhile President of intersexual assault.

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), now a starring campaigner for Trump's VP, seemingly issued his support for Trump accuser Jessica Leeds while nan presumptive GOP nominee was campaigning up of nan 2016 election.

Leeds, a erstwhile stockbroker who testified successful E. Jean Carroll's intersexual battle suit against Trump, alleged nan ex-President abruptly groped her connected a level successful nan 1970s.

During an October 2016 quality on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews, Vance was probed astir nan allegations and suggested that Trump often lies and he was inclined to 'believe that female connected nan tape'. 

The interview, on pinch different antagonistic remarks by Vance including erstwhile he branded Trump an 'idiot' and compared him to Adolf Hitler, resurfaced arsenic Trump is expected to make his VP action successful nan coming days.

Vance, during nan 2016 interview, was shown footage of Leeds describing nan alleged assault, Mediaite reported.

'These are not memories that you want to spell over,' she said, adding that it was 'unnerving' to beryllium 'rehashing' nan incident.

'You suppress it. It's not portion of your progressive reasoning each day. But you don't forget.'

Leeds alleged that Trump groped her and tried to buss her arsenic they sat broadside by broadside successful first people connected a New York City-bound pitchy successful 1979. 

'Somehow aliases other, nan armrest successful nan spot disappeared. And it was a existent daze when, each of a sudden, his hands were each complete me. He was for illustration an octopus. It was for illustration he had six arms. He was each complete nan place,' she said.

She accused Trump of putting his manus up her skirt earlier she fought him disconnected and walked distant to different seat. 

Matthews asked Vance, who had successful 2016 travel into prominence pinch his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, 'what do you think' of Leeds' account.

Vane replied: 'It's benignant of - it makes maine deliberation that astatine fundamental, this is benignant of he said/she said, right? 

'And astatine nan extremity of nan day, do you judge Donald Trump who ever tells nan truth? Just kidding, aliases do you judge that female connected nan tape?'

The Republican lawmaker besides erstwhile liked a tweet that accused Trump of 'serial intersexual assault,' according to Raw Story.

But Vance has since changed his tune, seemingly dismissing his anterior criticisms of nan ex-President.

During an quality connected CNN's State of The Union successful May, Vance told big Dana Bash: 'Look, my position connected Donald Trump - I person been very clear connected this - is, look, I was incorrect astir him. 

'I didn't deliberation he was going to beryllium a bully president, Dana, and I was very, very proud to beryllium proven wrong. It's 1 of nan reasons why I'm moving truthful difficult to get him elected.'

He has besides seemingly changed his position connected Trump's accusers. Earlier this year, after a judge ordered nan ex-President to salary Carroll $83.3million for defamation, Vance told The Hill that nan jurors successful nan proceedings were from 'extremely left-wing jurisdictions'.

The assemblage ruled that Trump had maliciously damaged Carroll's estimation successful 2019 aft she went nationalist pinch her accusations. 

Jurors awarded her $18million to compensate for nan individual harm she experienced, past added $65million much to punish Trump.

The sum was successful summation to nan $5million successful damages Trump was ordered to salary Carroll successful May 2023 pursuing a civil trial, which Leeds testified in.

Carroll's lawyers had called Leeds to nan guidelines successful an effort to found an alleged shape of Trump assaulting women.

Jurors successful nan civilian lawsuit rejected Carroll's claims that she was raped, but recovered Trump liable for intersexual maltreatment and for defaming her aft she made her allegations public.

Meanwhile, Trump has often said he will denote his moving mate astatine nan Republican National Convention successful Milwaukee adjacent week.

Trump appeared to tease astatine a rally successful Miami connected Tuesday nighttime that he could pick Florida Senator Marco Rubio as his moving mate, who has seemingly recovered himself successful nan last shortlist. 

The presumptive GOP nominee many times name-dropped Rubio during his rally, arsenic he said location has been a 'lot of press' astir nan erstwhile statesmanlike candidate's prospects. 

'They’ll astir apt beryllium reasoning that I’ll beryllium announcing Rubio arsenic my vice president,' Trump moreover admitted astatine 1 stage. 

He besides prodded Rubio complete his argumentation connection to region taxes from tips if he regains nan White House, and told him that 'you whitethorn aliases whitethorn not beryllium location to ballot for it - but you'll beryllium involved.' 

Trump's moving mate roster is besides believed to see Vance and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, pinch extracurricular names Vivek Ramaswamy and Byron Donalds also floated successful caller months.