J.D. Vance Claims Aliens Are Demons, Rooted in Religion, as UFO Coverage Clashes with Geopolitics

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JD Vance told Benny Johnson on a podcast that aliens are demons—a belief tied to religion and one he’s obsessed with, even though he hasn’t reviewed Trump’s promised classified files—and a Baudelaire line about the devil making people doubt his existence, noted by the Guardian, is used to frame this fringe claim amid ongoing news about Iran, rising gas prices, and a partial government shutdown, with related items like No Kings protests, Jill Biden’s Secret Service incident, and Iran’s alleged hacking of Kash Patel’s email to show how esoteric ideas intersect with real-world politics.