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WATCH: Vance Dismisses ‘Both Sides’ Rhetoric On Kirk Assassination: ‘Cut That S**t Out’
Vice President JD Vance reiterated that there is no merit to blaming “both sides” of the political aisle for the murder of Charlie Kirk given the suspected assassin’s documented far-left background.
“You talk to the shooter’s mother, you talk to the shooter’s father, you talk to the local district attorney, you talk to the FBI director or the deputy director of the FBI. You look at every ounce of evidence that we have, and it is clear. This is a person who grew up in a pretty normal family, actually had a pretty good home life, who was radicalized by the far left,” the vice president said in a recent interview with Fox News.
“By the social networks of the far left, by the ideas of the far left, and got so far down the path of radicalization that he killed my friend,” Vance continued. “That is not a both sides problem. My friend is dead because of left wing political radicalization. And if you want to cut that sh*t out, then be honest about it and look yourself in the mirror.”
Evidence does indeed point to far-left beliefs on the part of accused assassin, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, who is currently facing the death penalty in Utah after allegedly murdering Kirk with a high-powered rifle on the Utah Valley University campus on September 10.
After being convinced to turn himself in by his father and a youth pastor, Robinson explained that he killed Kirk because of his “hateful” views towards transgenderism, according to charging documents.
While speaking with his transgender roommate and romantic partner — a 22-year-old transgender individual who “hated” Christians and conservatives — Robinson reiterated that he killed Kirk due to his “hateful” views on transgenderism. The day of a shooting, Robinson messaged his partner and told him to “drop what you are doing, look under my keyboard,” according to charging documents.
The roommate found a note underneath Robinson’s keyboard that read, “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it,” the documents added.
Federal and state law enforcement agencies are also investigating several left-wing groups in Utah to determine whether any of them had advanced knowledge of the shooter’s plans, or if they assisted him after the fact. One of the groups in question deleted its social media presence immediately after the shooting, according to a report from Axios.
In addition, the suspected gunman engraved a message reading “hey fascist, catch” and another that referenced an Italian communist song that has become popular among Antifa-linked groups on shell casings.
Vance has been adamant in asserting that the murder of Charlie Kirk is not a “both sides” situation given the widespread celebration and glorification of violence among the political left. In a passionate address from Kirk’s studio earlier this week, Vance pointed to an article from The Nation, which villainized Kirk and sanitized his murder, when stressing that there can be”no unity” with the radical left.
“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. 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. 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, a loving husband and father, deserved a shot to the neck because he spoke words with which they disagree,” the vice president said.
“Did you know that the George Soros Open Society Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the groups who funded that disgusting article justifying Charlie’s death, do you know they benefit from generous tax treatment? They are literally subsidized by you and me, the American taxpayer. And how do they reward us? By setting fire to the house built by the American family over 250 years,” he continued.
“I’m desperate for our country to be united in condemnation of the actions and the ideas that killed my friend. I want it so badly that I will tell you a difficult truth. We can only have it with people who acknowledge that political violence is unacceptable, and when we work to dismantle the institutions that promote violence and terrorism in our own country.”
