Donald Trump ’s running mate JD Vance has dug in on his claim Haitians in an Ohio community are abducting and eating pets, even as the state’s GOP governor and other officials insist there is no evidence of such behavior. But the salacious claim was easily debunked.

J.D. Vance, like Donald Trump, is an unprincipled demagogue and a habitual liar willing to cross any moral line in his pursuit of power. There is, however, an important difference between the two men that has grown increasingly evident in recent days.

A representative for J.D. Vance was told "point blank" that the Republican vice presidential nominee's claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio were not true, but he continued to smear them anyway as bomb threats were called in to local schools and government offices.