The Trump-Vance campaign and its supporters tore into The New York Times Saturday for ascribing a Nazi slogan to the Republican vice presidential candidate in a headline.
“JD Vance’s Blood-and-Soil Nationalism Finds Its Target,” blared the headline for the online newsletter by Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie, in a characterization of the Ohio senator’s political ideology that used the phrase made popular in Nazi Germany.
In his piece, Bouie lashed out at Vance for his claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets and wildlife, a notion Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump brought up during Tuesday’s presidential debate.
Trump operatives and allies, however, decried the Gray Lady as spewing its own hate — and the potential for an escalation to violence against the Vance.
“The @nytimes has now stooped to essentially calling @JDVance a Nazi,” wrote Republican strategist Andrew Surabian over the use of the slogan “blood and soil.” “Truly vile stuff from the supposed paper of record.”
Alex Bruesewitz, a Trump campaign advisor, laid into The Times for potentialy stoking real-world harm.
“It’s disgusting that the media is now pushing these ridiculous, violence inciting claims about
@JDVance just two months after @realDonaldTrump was nearly assassinated,” he wrote.
In his column, Bouie blamed the Ohio senator’s speculative comments for a slew of bomb threats made against elementary schools, city hall and other buildings in Springfield.
He also noted that, in light of Vance’s statements regarding Springfield’s Haitian immigrants, the Republican veep appeared to have embraced “blood-and-soil nationalism,” which he characterized as some people not being welcomed into “the national community” owing to their origins elsewhere.
“What matters to Vance is who they are, where they come from and what they look like,” Bouie wrote. “They don’t belong to this soil, he might say, and therefore they don’t belong.”
Vance campaign spokeswoman Taylor Van Kirk called on The Times to come to it senses and retract its “disgusting” headline.
“With an assassination attempt on President Trump’s life only two months ago, it’s abhorrent the New York Times would spew such disgusting bile — against a father of three biracial children nonetheless,” Van Kirk told The Post.
“With headlines like these, it’s no wonder why countless people are asking if the purpose was to incite violence against Senator Vance.”
Following the backlash, The Times quietly replaced the headline with “Shouldn’t JD Vance Represent All of Ohio?”
Bouie and a spokesperson for The Times did not respond to requests for comment.