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Vance’s mother deals with her past and his future

Vance’s mother deals with her past and his future

Trump’s running mate hid nothing in his warts-and-all memoir Hillbilly Elegy – including his mother’s addictions.

J.D. Vance with his mother, Beverly Aikins, at the Republican National Convention, where he retold his well-branded life story. Bloomberg

Here is the way J.D. Vance introduced his mother to the world in his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy:

He described how she hit him. Trapped him in a car, floored the gas pedal and told him they were going to die. Made him pee into a jar so she could use his clean urine to pass a drug test. Moved him around a lot. Overshared. Disappeared. Burned through other people’s money. Slit her wrists. Crashed her minivan into a telephone pole.

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