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Politifact: JD Vance’s dog, Atlas, is his actual dog, not a rent-a-dog

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JD Vance quips that his German Shepherd was assigned to him by the Trump campaign to make him seem like a dog-lover.

Julian Zelizer says the dog is a 10-month-old German Shepherd that the family got from a breeder as a puppy.

Zelizer : Vance hardly mentions the dog prior to August .

Good misinformation is believable misinformation, says Tucker Carlson .

And so, as Senator JD Vance sat there across from Tucker Carlson , it really did feel like that dog was a rental.

It could have been kind of funny if it had turned out to be true, says Carlson .

Vance seems like the kind of guy who might stick his weiner in a couch, doesn't he?.