Vice President JD Vance brought the receipts about the number of people on the left who feel political violence is acceptable and said there can be "no unity" with people who celebrate Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk's murder.
Speaking from his office in the White House on Monday on "The Charlie Kirk Show," Vance said the data is clear, there is a much larger number of self-proclaimed leftists who are fine with the use of political violence compared to self-proclaimed very conservative ones.
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.@VP get's emotional as he shares Charlie's most IMPORTANT truth. 🙏
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"One truth we must face is that 24 percent of self-described very liberals believe it is acceptable to be happy about the death of a political opponent," the VP said. "While only three percent of self-described very conservatives agree."
"Another truth is that 26 percent of young liberals believe political violence is sometimes justified," he added. "And only seven percent of young conservatives say the same. Again, too high a number…But the data is clear. People on the left are much more likely to defend and celebrate political violence."
🚨Scalise, Trump, Kirk.
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"This violence doesn’t come from nowhere. Any political movement...is a collection of forces..donors, activists, journalists, now social media influencers, & politicians..are creating an environment where things like this are inevitably going to happen" pic.twitter.com/m0ZBPd8OxO
Warning: There is some profanity.
"This is not a both sides problem...One side has a much bigger and malignant problem, and that is the truth that must be told," Vance said. "That problem has terrible consequences. The leader of our party, Donald J Trump, escaped an assassin's bullet by less than an inch. Our House Majority leader, Steve Scalise, came within seconds of death by an assassin himself. And now the most influential conservative activists in generations, our friend Charlie, has been murdered."
"This violence, it doesn't come from nowhere," Vance said. "Now any political movement...is a collection of forces, like a pyramid that stacks on top, one support on top of the other. That pyramid's got a foundation of donors, activists, journalists, now social media influencers, and politicians."
"Not every member of that pyramid would commit a murder….but by celebrating that murder, apologizing for it, and emphasizing not Charlie's innocence but the fact that he said things some didn't like, even to the point of lying about what he actually said, many of these people are creating an environment where things like this are inevitably going to happen."
The vice president then reflected on what happened to his family a few months ago when he and Second Lady Usha Vance tried to take their kids to Disneyland, and there were some insane, radical leftists who screamed at his kids, as RedState reported.
"It is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics in American politics today are proud members of the far left," Vance said. "We can thank God that most Democrats don't share these attitudes, and I do. While acknowledging that something has gone very wrong with the lunatic fringe, a minority, but a growing and powerful minority on the far left."
🚨 JD VANCE just WENT OFF on people who are calling for "UNITY" with radical leftists
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"There is NO UNITY with people who scream at children over their parents' politics.
There is NO UNITY with someone who LIES about what Charlie Kirk said in order to excuse his murder.
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"There is no unity with people who scream at children over their parents' politics," he added. "There is no unity with someone who lies about what Charlie Kirk said in order to excuse his murder. There is no unity with someone who harasses an innocent family the day after the father of that family lost a dear friend."
"There is no unity with the people who celebrate Charlie Kirk's assassination," the VP continued. "And there is no unity with the people who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers. Who argue that Charlie Kirk….deserved a shot to the neck because he spoke words with which they disagree."
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Earlier in the show, Vance spoke with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who shared how devastated he is that Kirk is gone. He also revealed the chilling final text message he got from Charlie, one day before he was killed by an assassin while he was on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The suspect in custody for Kirk's murder is Tyler Robinson, who the FBI has said was influenced by leftist ideology.
It comes at the 26:30 minute mark.
Miller said it read:
We need to have an organized strategy to go after the left-leaning organizations that are promoting violence in this country.
The vice president is one hundred percent correct; those on the right must call out those who have excused Kirk's murder. Actions have consequences.
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