On Oct. 8, 2016—the day after the video leaked—Vance liked a tweet calling Trump a “thug” who “[committed] sexual assault.” The post compared Trump’s behavior to his false allegations against a group of Black teenagers in New York in the 1990s.

“Maybe the Central Park 5 could take out a full-page ad to condemn the coddling of thug real estate barons who commit serial sexual assault,” the tweet, from Washington Post columnist Radley Balko, said…

Vance also liked a tweet from that same day announcing that the Beckley Register-Herald—a newspaper in the heart of West Virginia coal country—had endorsed Clinton. Vance’s like was one of 20 for the tweet.