Vice President JD Vance is drawing scrutiny on social media after weighing in on leaked messages from a group chat of Young Republicans.

POLITICO exclusively reported Tuesday that young GOP leaders joked about slavery, gas chambers and rape in thousands of private messages in a Telegram chat. The trove of messages, obtained by the outlet, stretch over seven months and include leaders in New York, Arizona, Vermont and Texas.

Shared among a dozen of millennial and Gen Z Republicans between early January to mid-August, some texts included referring to Black people as “the watermelon people” and monkeys, while others floated raping political enemies and driving them to suicide. At one point, a former chair of the New York State Young Republicans wrote, “Great. I love Hitler.”

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