Washington (CNN)J.D. Vance, a Republican candidate for a US Senate seat in Ohio, is a law school graduate. But Vance made a significant false claim on Thursday about legal proceedings against people who allegedly participated in the Capitol insurrection last year.
On the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021 riot, Vance tweeted out a link to a website that encourages donations to people who have been accused of involvement in the attack on the Capitol. And Vance wrote: "There are dozens of people who protested on J6 who haven't even been charged with a crime yet are being mistreated in DC prisons. A friend suggested the below link if you're able to support them."
In another tweet moments later, Vance claimed that many of the prisoners are military veterans who have been "accused of nothing."
Facts First: Vance's claims are false. Every alleged Capitol rioter who is being held in jail to await trial has been charged with a crime. Moreover, every one of the dozens of defendants listed on the very donations page Vance was promoting has been charged with a crime.
More than 90 minutes after his false tweets, Vance appeared to implicitly concede that he wasn't correct to claim that dozens of Capitol riot prisoners "haven't even been charged with a crime" -- posting a new tweet that read, "*convicted (not charged)." But Vance did not delete either that false initial tweet or the false subsequent tweet claiming the prisoners have been "accused of nothing," and he did not...
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