JD Vance is factually challenged – and morally deficit | Margaret Sullivan

The vice-presidential candidate seems to feel no remorse about spreading dangerous misinformation that has put lives at risk

There was a moment when JD Vance could have turned back from the story.

After the vice-presidential candidate posted on social media about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating pets - based on the flimsiest of supposed evidence - a Vance staffer checked it out.

Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture