JD Vance (AI illustration)

The Internet defines a "snake oil salesman" as a fraud who sells ineffective products using deceptive marketing tactics.

Vice President J.D. Vance came to Michigan Wednesday to sell some snake oil, offering up the National Guard as an end-all potion to cure one of the nation's nagging and deadly ailments — crime.

Before a receptive, nearly all-White audience in Howell, about 55 miles north of Detroit, Vance delivered a speech offering Gov. Gretchen Whitmer the National Guard to help fight crime in the predominantly Black city.

“My message to Gretchen Whitmer is, look, the city of Detroit, we know, has got some serious crime problems, and we know that it's the people in Detroit who suffer the most when crime is allowed to run rampant all over city streets," Va

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