Fact-checking Kinzinger’s jab on Vance and Ukraine
Former Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger criticized the foreign policy positions of Trump and Vance, saying at one point that Vance said, “I don't care what happens in Ukraine.”
“And he wants to be vice president?” Kinzinger asked.
Vance did say something close to that, days before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In an interview with former Trump administration official Steve Bannon in February 2022, Vance said, “I gotta be honest with you, I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other."
—PolitiFact’s Aaron Sharockman