The media is growing desperate to find any sort of scandal to use against Vice President JD Vance, and if there are none to be found, they have shown that they will simply invent one.

Recent reports revealed that Vance sold the Washington D.C.-area home he previously purchased as a senator this month for nearly $2 million, with the final sale price being roughly $170,000 above the initial asking price, just days after it was first listed, according to the New York Post.

Other reports sought to up the ante on the allegedly scandalous home sale by identifying the government lobbyist who purchased it, but were compelled to quietly acknowledge that there is no known connection between Vance and the buyer, and that the above-asking sale price was actually still well below the average market value for the home.

Vance sold his D.C.-area home

According to the Post, then-Sen. Vance (R-OH) purchased a home on Del Ray Ave. in Alexandria, Virginia, in February 2023 for about $1.63 million shortly after he arrived as a newly elected senator.

Now living in the vice presidential residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington D.C., Vance listed the Alexandria home for sale on Feb. 27 for an asking price of $1.69 million.

The Del Ray property is a 1925-built two-story farmhouse-style abode that has been updated and features more than 2,500 square feet of living space that includes five bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a plethora of other modern amenities.

Less than a week after the home was first listed, it was under contract on March 3 for a sale price of $1.86 million, roughly $172,000 over the list price, with that deal officially closing on March 14.

Buyer identified

Forbes attempted to broaden the alleged scandal of the rapid home sale for an above-asking price by reporting that VP Vance sold the Alexandria home to a government contractor and lobbyist who briefly worked in the first Trump administration.

The buyer was identified as Christopher Garcia, who from 2017 to 2018 worked for the Commerce Department's Minority Business Development Agency -- an agency that President Donald Trump has since ordered to be shut down -- and is now the CEO of Health Supply US, a company that has a $179 million contract with the federal government to provide personal protective equipment to the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security.

Garcia is also a consultant for a D.C. lobbying firm known as the Livingstone Group, though he himself is not registered as a lobbyist.

Where is the alleged "scandal"?

The obvious media narrative being pushed here is that VP Vance swiftly sold his Alexandria home to a Trump administration-linked lobbyist for more than what the home is worth, but that is simply not the case, as Forbes ultimately acknowledged near the end of the article.

Per a spokesperson for Garcia, the home sale was an "arm's-length transaction" in which there was no relationship or even any direct contact between the buyer and seller.

Furthermore, while the final sales price of the Del Ray property was above the initial asking price, it was still well below the home's actual market value, as the price works out to around $642 per square foot while comparable home sales in Alexandria over the past year have averaged around $741 per square foot.

If there is any alleged "scandal" here, it is that Vance likely sold the home too quickly and could potentially have profited even more than he did if he'd waited and entertained multiple offers in a bidding war that would likely have driven up the final sales price to match that of other comparable homes in the area.