VP has some trust repairs to do with the village residents.
Two years after a toxic train derailment uprooted hundreds of residents on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha visited East Palestine, OH, to remember the event, check in on cleanup efforts still ongoing, and see where Norfolk Southern Railroad’s settlement money has gone. Vance was joined by Sens. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) and John Husted (R-OH), Gov. Mike DeWine, Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin, Mayor Trent Conaway, Ohio Attorney General David Yost, and Vivek Ramaswamy.
Then-Sen. Vance was on site nearly immediately after the derailment in 2023, as was Donald Trump, who was involved in a fevered frenzy of criminal accusations at the time. Trump showed up with truckloads of bottled water and other urgently…
