JD Vance said "obviously" violent Jan. 6 rioters didn't deserve pardons. Eight days later, Donald Trump made him look foolish — again.

Trump said his pardons and commutations for Jan. 6 defendants were justified, and argued that people who commit violent crime in other cities don't get charged.

Some of the president's own team had signalled not all of those arrested over the Capitol riot would be released - until his order on Monday.

Jerry Dobbins remembers a young Vance growing up in Middletown, decades before he would be sworn in as vice president. Dobbins lived two doors down from Vance's grandmother − affectionately known as "Mamaw" − and he called her a "tough bird" who pushed her grandson to do well and stay out of trouble.