Vance: There Can Be ‘No Unity’ With Those Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

Vice President JD Vance said that there can be “no unity” with those on the Left celebrating or making excuses for the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Vance made the comments as he guest-hosted the Charlie Kirk Show on Monday from the White House. Vance said that the country can only come together once the problem with political violence coming from the Left is acknowledged and dealt with.

“I really do believe that we can come together in this country. I believe we must, but unity, real unity, can be found only after climbing the mountain of truth. And there are difficult truths we must confront in our country,” Vance said.

One of the “difficult truths,” Vance said, was that political violence was not a “both sides” issue.

“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,” he said, pointing to the assassination attempt of President Donald Trump and the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise back in 2017.

“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,” Vance said. “There is no unity with someone who lies about what Charlie Kirk said in order to excuse his murder.”

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Vance encouraged people to continue calling out others on social media if they celebrated or mocked the death of Kirk. People from across the country, from airline pilots to university professors, have been disciplined over posts belittling Kirk’s killing.

“So when you see someone celebrating Charlie’s murder, call them out, and hell, call their employer,” Vance said. “We don’t believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility. And there is no civility in the celebration of political assassination.”

He said that the Trump administration would be working to “dismantle the institutions that promote violence and terrorism in our own country” and encouraged Americans to get involved politically.

“I can’t promise you this is gonna be easy,” he said. “I can’t promise you that all of us will avoid Charlie’s fate. I can’t promise you that I will avoid Charlie’s fate.
But the best way to honor him is to shine the light of truth like a torch in the very darkest places.”

Vance concluded his remarks by pointing to the passage in the New Testament that talks about putting on the “full armor of God.”

“Let all of us put on that armor and commit ourselves to that cause for which Charlie gave his life, to rebuild the United States of America and to do it by telling the truth,” Vance said.