JD Vance calls Trump ‘morally reprehensible’ in resurfaced emails

Former friend releases messages largely from 2014-2017 in which Republican VP nominee also says: I hate the police'

Questions continued to mount about the political transformation of Donald Trump's running mate, JD Vance, after the release of emails from a former friend in which Vance called Trump a morally reprehensible human being" and said: I hate the police."

The messages between Vance and Sofia Nelson, who sent them to the New York Times, were largely dated between 2014 and 2017. In one, Vance sent Nelson a section of Hillbilly Elegy, his bestseller about his Appalachian boyhood.