Read previewSen. JD Vance of Ohio said that a lawyer presumably sent by the Trump campaign asked him if he had any "secret family" during the vice presidential vetting process in an interview that took place with his wife, Usha Vance, sitting near him.
The lawyer, Vance said, then asked, "Do you have any secret family?"
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