The Associated Press didn’t sit on social media rumours that Senator JD Vance (Republican, Ohio) had coitus with a sofa.
The oddly blunt head was screen-captured by Meidas Touch co-founder Ben Meiselas and others.
The wild assertions sprang from people on X (formerly Twitter) writing that Vance, now the running mate for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, wrote in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, that he simulated the act with a rubber glove anchored between the cushions as a young man.
“You have only been a Senator for 18 months, you are NOT qualified to be @VP plus you depravely humped a couch and wrote about it in your book!” a Kamala Harris supporter wrote.
Even comedian Kathy Griffin chimed in, declaring the country should not have a “couchf*cker” as vice president.
Why waste all that journalistic effort? According to Mediate, AP did a PDF search of the book that produced 10 references of “couch” or “couches” but in none of them did Vance take liberties. “Sofa” and “glove” did not appear anywhere in the memoir, AP wrote.
The Cut did its own investigation and reported that the pages allegedly recounting Vance’s alleged furniture tryst mentioned no such thing.
