Vice President JD Vance is no longer claiming Haitian immigrants eat cats.

But he remains truth-challenged when it comes to a different topic: babies, and fraud.

Vance, who heads the White House task force against fraud, went to Milwaukee to highlight a case involving a government-funded prenatal health care program for at-risk mothers.

The speech got little attention until the White House essentially accused Vance of being a “dumb a--.” That came after the White House Rapid Response 47 account accused an online observer of obscuring the face of a fraudster on a poster Vance displayed.

“Your dumb a-- is shielding a criminal who stole $2.4 million in taxpayer-funded benefits meant to help at-risk pregnant women and women with young kids,” the Rapid Response 47 account posted. A video clip then showed that the “dumb a--” was in fact Vance himself. He had held the poster at an angle; the face was blanked by the glare of the lights.

But the speech, on closer examination, was worse than dumb. It was itself a fraud.

Vance went beyond the routine lying by both political parties. He transposed the facts. A Biden appointee had made the case. And Trump has been relentlessly pardoning fraudsters.

And to make it worse, Vance himself preceded this shameless transposing by talking about his family.

“I care about this very personally,” Vance told a small crowd at a National Guard hangar, adding that his wife, Usha Vance, “is currently pregnant with baby number four.”

“She is 37 weeks pregnant, and I appreciate your prayers,” he........

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