The Associated Press Eats Crow

The Associated Press deleted a post it had made on X that claimed GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance urged the public to accept school shootings as a “fact of life.”

The NY Post reports the news service ran the partial quote after the Ohio Senator spoke in the wake of the massacre at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., which left four people dead and nine wounded on Wednesday

“JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security,” the AP posted to the social media platform on Thursday.

The AP’s post on X was soon flooded with angry responses which accused the news agency of taking his comments out of context.

Critics noted that Vance’s full quote was: “I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools.”

In a follow-up X post, the AP amended its headline to read: “JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a ‘fact of life’ and says the US needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia.”

William Martin, a spokesperson for Vance, blasted the AP, telling Fox News Digital: “This is yet another case of the fake news media brazenly lying about a Republican politician.”