VP Vance’s opening comments on The Charlie Kirk Show

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JD Vance just CALLED IT LIKE IT IS on the Charlie Kirk Show, forcefully. He's about to make all the right people upset. He calls out the vast network of left-wing violence, and he's MAD.

"THIS IS NOT A BOTH SIDES PROBLEM."

"24% of self-described 'very liberals' believe it is acceptable to be happy about the death of a political opponent, while only 3% of self-described very conservatives agree. 3% is too many, of course."

"If both sides have a problem, one side has a much bigger and malignant problem and that is the truth we must be told. 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 activist in generations, our friend Charlie, has been murdered. This violence, it doesn't come from nowhere."

"Now any political movement, violent or not violent, is a collection of forces. It's like a pyramid that stacks on top, one support on top of the other. That pyramid's got a foundation of donors, of activists, of journalists, now of social media influencers, and of course, of politicians."

"Not every member of that pyramid would commit a murder. In fact, over 99% I'm sure would not. 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."