During a segment on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday, Pete Buttigieg had some harsh words for Trump's Vice Presidential pick, J.D. Vance.
Most American voters were first introduced to Buttigieg in 2020 when he sought the Democratic nomination. He didn't win the nomination, but Joe Biden put him in his cabinet, as the Secretary of Transportation.
Buttigieg has emerged as one of the Democrats best communicators and last night was no exception. During his appearance last night, Buttigieg was asked about J.D. Vance and he didn't hold back.
The Secretary of Transportation noted that Vance was a detractor of Trump early on, even referring to him an an opioid. "For somebody whose identity is that they're connected to Appalachia, which has an opioid crisis, that really is the darkest thing you could possibly say about Donald Trump, at least in public. Behind the scenes, he was actually calling him 'Hitler,' right? Seriously!"
Buttigieg also referenced Trump's former VP, saying:
"I watched [Pence] start out as an evangelical Christian who cared about rectitude and family values, and then get on board with a guy who was mixed up with a porn star, and make excuses for him. He got four glorious years, I guess, as vice president of the United States. And it ended on the West front of the U.S. Capitol with Trump supporters proposing that he be hanged for using the one shred of integrity he still had to stand up to an attempt to overthrow the government."
Buttigieg closed, "So I guess, maybe not as a politician but as a human being, what I'll say is that I hope things work out a little bit better for JD Vance than they did for Pence."