Vice President JD Vance tried to put up a smokescreen for his boss over the weekend after he highlighted how the administration is “fighting fraudsters” during a stop in Maine on Thursday.

Vance, in a social media post, wrote that Maine residents were “fired up and ready to stop the fraudsters” who take advantage of federal programs alongside a clip from the visit where he reflected on President Donald Trump tasking him with tackling America’s “fraud problem.”

“I realized that fraud isn’t just about saving money, it’s not just about protecting taxpayers. It’s about protecting you,” he said in a speech from Maine’s Bangor International Airport.

As Vance tries to paint him and the administration as dragon slayers of sorts against alleged widespread fraud, critics have frequently accused Trump and his officials of using the federal government for personal enrichment and of defrauding the American people.

Just before leaving the Oval Office in 2021, Trump pardoned several healthcare executives convicted of fraud or, as one healthcare advocacy group CEO described them, “major, major crimes.”

The vice president was slammed for his fraud fight hype video by social media users, including Sarah Longwell, founder of the anti-Trump conservative site The Bulwark, who described the clip on X as a “kind of narrative jujitsu.”

Read that and more takes on the Vance clip below.