Saurabh Sharma
Role at the time: Conservative activist and American Moment co-founder who was named a White House special assistant in January 2025, posting on X from an account he describes as personal
Response to this claim
The United States was becoming dirtier, poorer, less safe, and less prosperous.
“He’s right, and no amount of crying and screaming and wailing and gnashing of teeth is going to get him to stop telling the truth about mass migration.”
Post from Sharma’s verified X account, which describes itself as a personal account. It quotes a video clip of Vance’s sentence, “And we were tired of being called racist for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier,” posted by Acyn.
Why we used this label
Relative to Vance’s statement that supporters had been called racist for noticing the country becoming dirtier, Sharma says Vance is “right” and is “telling the truth about mass migration”. That defends the statement and ties it to immigration, so “Defended or excused” fits; he offers no qualification that would make another label closer.