While he dearly wants unity in America, there cannot be unity with people who condone – even celebrate – political violence, such as the assassination of conservative advocate Charlie Kirk, Vice President JD Vance declared Monday.
Hosting an episode of “The Charlie Kirk Show” in wake of Kirk’s assassination, Vice President Vance said that there can be no unity with those who are violently opposed to unity:
“I am desperate for our country to be united in condemnation of the actions and the ideas that killed my friend. I want it so badly.
“But, 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.”
Vance said that no form of political violence should be tolerated:
"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.”
JD Vance: "There's no unity with the people who celebrate Charlie Kirk's assassination."pic.twitter.com/XOzO8y5kkW
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) September 15, 2025
The vice president went on to condemn both an article in “The Nation” falsely quoting and smearing Charlie Kirk – and the liberal billionaires who fund the dishonest, leftist publication:
“And there is no unity with the people who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizes - who argue Charlie Kirk, a loving husband and father, deserved a shot to the neck because he spoke words with which they disagree.
“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 it? By setting fire to the house built by the American Family over 250 years.”
VP Vance slams Soros-funded The Nation for publishing a smear piece suggesting that Charlie Kirk was racist:
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) September 15, 2025
"This hack of a writer shows that she lied about a dead man, yet she wrote it... and of course, liberal billionaires rewarded that attack." pic.twitter.com/YkvjQyq1T7