A columnist for The Guardian shredded Second Lady Usha Vance on Thursday for appearing to have "traded her dignity for power" by joining the second Trump administration.
Columnist Arwa Mahdawi argued in a new column that Vance is "no victim" in the situation, as she has been "a major force in JD’s meteoric rise."
"Usha Vance is a very clever woman with terrible taste in men," Mahdawi wrote. "The Yale and Cambridge-educated lawyer quit her job at a prestigious DC firm the same day her husband was picked to be Donald Trump’s running mate. She trailed after him on the campaign trail, smiling for the cameras. A former Democrat, she aligned herself with Trump, a man her husband once called 'America’s Hitler.'"
"In exchange for her loyalty, the second lady now has a taxpayer-funded mansion, regular trips in a private jet, and a husband who acknowledges white supremacist attacks on her – saying 'Don’t attack my wife' – but has failed to condemn them head-on," she continued.
Vice President JD Vance recently said he would like his wife to convert from Hinduism to Catholicism, a claim that some have described as throwing her under the bus. JD Vance called attacks on his comments "disgusting."
" You know what seems disgusting, JD: saying that you hope the woman you married in a Christian-Hindu ceremony abandons something apparently important to her," Mahdawi wrote.
"I’ll tell you what you look like to me, Usha: a woman happy to trade her dignity for power," she added.
