First Thing: JD Vance brushes off racist texts in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’ | NYGazet

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24- to 35-year-olds as ‘stupid jokes’. Plus, Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell

Good morning. JD Vance sought to downplay the revelation that leaders of a group called the Young Republicans exchanged hundreds of racist and sexist text messages – including one in which rape was called “epic”, and another in which someone wrote “I... [5566 chars]