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The Left's 'Malignant' Violence Problem | Episode 126
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Shocking details surrounding Charlie Kirk’s assassin emerge; VP Vance delivers a moving tribute; and a deep dive into the pro-violence agenda of the globalist left.
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Good morning and welcome to Vince on a Tuesday. It is so good to have you with us. As always, the best audience anywhere. Today we dive into the left's malignant crime problem. That's the words of the Vice President of the United States, J.D. vance, causing a lot of outrage on that left. They hate that the Vice President said the truth out loud. I think it's a good thing. We'll explore why the President is right. I've got the data to support it and a lot more to dig into today right here on this edition of Vince. Glad to have you here with us. Want to thank the great sponsors who make this program possible and that includes Birch Gold. Birch Gold, wonderful sponsor and you know inflation has been pretty bad thanks to Joe Biden. We're taming it a bit now. But you know the economy is always an upheaval and then you hear the national debt is over $37 trillion. You ever think to yourself, well self maybe now would be a good time to finally buy some gold. 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Is anybody taking personal inventory of their own lives right now about how you can be a better person in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk? I feel like I've been doing that a lot lately. I know I have. I've been doing that a lot since last week. And I'm like man, what could I do to be better? And part of that is like don't be lazy in any element of my life. Like you know, just be, be more responsive me be more on top of my work. You know, actually answer my emails and my text messages. By the way, if Any of you are watching have texted me, and I haven't responded. I apologize. I'm getting through them. I'm working on it. But I do think just being better is. Is a key, and in. In every way possible. Um, I told this story on the radio show, but I'll reiterate for you. You know, I also think that in my house, it's been. It's just been a big issue, like a big resonant impact for Charlie to be assassinated last week. And my daughter's 11 years old, and she's, you know, she's not steeped in all of the details, but she know that. She knows that Charlie was assassinated. And, you know, we've had some conversations about that. And I do think it animated her this weekend, because on Friday, after she got home from school and after my shows were concluded, she said to me, she said, dad, can we go to the mall? Can you take me to the mall tomorrow? And. And I thought about it for a little bit. I was kind of, I don't really want to go to the mall. I don't. I don't want to go shopping for girls clothing or anything like that. She's 11 years old, and so I was like, all right, we'll see if we have time. Maybe we can go. And then in the morning, she woke up again, and she came right up to me, and she said, are we going to the mall today? You want to go to the mall today? And what was interesting about this is it's unusual. My. My daughter's. I can count on one hand the number of times that she's asked to do something like this. And I think. I really believe. And I didn't. I didn't exactly probe, and I almost don't want to. Was this because of Charlie? Is this why you said this? But I do think that for her, she was reflecting on what happened this last week and thinking that, you know, our time with our loved ones is short and can end at any moment. You never know for what reason. And I loved it. And so I took her out. We went to the mall, and you could tell that she was into it and actually the experience of being with me, because she kept asking me, she's like, do you want to go find something? Do you want to go find some new clothing or whatever? She would try and get me to go to stores for my own interest, not for hers. I'm the one spending all the money. But it was really nice of her and generous of her to be thinking about me. And the thing about Shopping with me is, I have no interest. I mean, I, I, I sort of am interested in, but I don't want to try clothing on. It feels like a big waste of time. I'm like, I already own pants. I own all the clothing I need. I don't need to buy new stuff. But she was so stinking generous and I loved every moment of it. And I can't help but think the reason for that is because like so many of us, she's reflecting on what is important to her as well in the wake of that tragedy last week. So that was, that was a really nice thing. So I imagine maybe you're seeing some of that in your own life as well. Bizarro one says give her back her shirt. Yeah, I'm wearing the Schmedium today. For those of you watching the video podcast, this is Alligator Alcatraz brought to you by Silverlock. Other side, we got the Silverlock logo on that bad boy. So you can, you can check it out. We have, I think we're selling these on the Silverlock store, right, Justin? We have the alligator Alcatraz shirt up right now. He believes so. Yeah. Nobody quite knows what's going on, but I do know that I have a Silverlock T shirt on. This is Alligator Alcatraz and it is a Schmedium. It is true. It's a very good shirt. I like this shirt a lot and I love the mission that it represents. So great work, Silverlock, at getting these things out. Okay, we've got a lot to get to today. JD Vance is a great American, great vice President of the United States. And yesterday he decided to compete with my radio show, which we air on rumble live at 12 o' clock Eastern each day. And if anyone's going to compete with me and dominate, I'm glad to see as the Vice President of the United States, J.D. vance, he did this yesterday by hosting Charlie Kirk's program in an amazing send off for Charlie and just an amazing broadcast. I went back and was able to watch some of this and of course JD who's so smart, did such a wonderful job with it. Let me start with, just cut to here. Here's JD Vance just hosting the show and saying some really nice and important things about the late Charlie Kirk.
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I was also honored to be able to take Charlie's remains from Utah to Arizona. It was an amazing, amazing thing. It was heartbreaking and it was sad and it was terrible. But what an honor it was for me and my family to be welcomed in to the Kirk inner circle at their moment of grief. There are a few things that I want to talk about just from that, that moment. First of all, when I first met Erica, his lovely wife and such an incredibly brave soul. I'm not sure if you saw her remarks after Charlie died. If you haven't, I would encourage you to go and see them because you see this raw grief and incredible courage all in the same moment. And that's what we need right now. We need to grieve, but we also need this courage in this moment more than we've ever needed it. She gave me a hug.
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Yeah. Yeah. Really sweet. And Erica just did an amazing job last week, Friday, as she spoke to the world, addressed the loss of her husband, said goodbye to him on her own terms, of course. That continues throughout this week as we head into his funeral on Sunday. And this has just been. This has been a really difficult moment for the country and a call for all of us to answer it in the way that Charlie Kirk would have wanted, which is with love and conviction for our great country and to advance this, this great mission forward. And, you know, the problem we're running into, as usual, is the American left. The American left is unfortunately filled with a lot of ignorant and very violent people right now. And I'm not just saying that without any basis. There's a lot of data to support that. I'll get to that in a moment. But first I want to get to how the vice President of the United States apparently kicked up a big debate yesterday about whether or not the left is actually violent. Here's the vice president on Charlie Kirk's program describing what he. What he calls the malignant violence problem of the left. Here he is, cut one.
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People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem. 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 leaver, Steven 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. A couple.
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Show me the lie. Show me where the Vice President of the United States is lying about the circumstance that our country finds itself in right now. He's not. He's telling the truth. The left has an entire apparatus that's dedicated to the misdirection of the American public. And in that misdirection, and in that by any means necessary pursuit of power, you will inflame, as we've said all week, weak and vicious minds to take unspeakable acts against their political opponents. That's what happened last week when Charlie was gunned down by a radical leftist. That's just true. And this is the Vice President of the United States reminding all of those Democrats, many of whom he served with in the United States Senate, that they bear responsibility for creating an environment that demonizes a guy like Charlie and the rest of us through the process of telling lies. And then these are the consequences of those lies. Your words have meaning. You should be thoughtful about how you express yourself, because if you express yourself effectively, there will be people who listen to you and take you seriously. It's a reminder to all of us to be very mindful of the words that come out of our mouth. I think somebody told me, I didn't see Charlie say this. Some of you in chat may have heard this, but I think Charlie had once said that you should taste the words in your mouth before you spit them out. Well, that's definitely true. No matter who said that. Think before you speak. That's what your parents used to say. And the left has been thoughtlessly at best, thoughtlessly speaking at worst, contemplating how they can inflame weak and vicious minds. And so the data support what the Vice President is saying here. I don't care how much screeching you hear on msnbc, cnn, or any of these other crazy networks right now. The data support this. Listen to. Actually, this was on cnn. Listen to former New York State Representative Joe Borelli last night on the. Abby. Phillip. What are they. What do they call it over at the Media Research Center? Thunderdome, where it's just a panel. Everybody is, like, all over the place. But normally, if we're Lucky we get Scott Jennings or a guy like Joe Borelli to sit at the table and finally speak some common sense to everybody. And here's Joe Borelli last night. The data support this cut. 11, take a listen to what Joe had to say.
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YouGov came out with a poll three days ago talking about how each side feels about violence and support of political deaths. Liberals 16% believe it's okay to feel joy when your political opponent is killed. Liberals, very. Liberals 24%, conservatives 4%, very conservatives 3%. Justifying violence. Very liberal people have 25% answered, yes, it's okay. You justified that issue to do violence against your political opponents. Liberals 17%, conservatives 8% and very conservatives 3. That means it is six to one times more likely in respondents to this poll on the left. Now, I'm not saying there's exclusivity on the left. I'm not saying that, but there is certainly a problem where six times the amount of Republicans believe that it's okay to feel joy when your political opponent is, is killed, murdered, whatever attacked, and that six to one believe that they are okay in justifying violence against political opponents.
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That's a problem.
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That's a cancer within the movement.
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This is a massive problem. It is an asymmetric problem. In other words, there is no equivalent sense of violent actions on the right. It doesn't exist. This is why you see the left grasping at these bizarro desperate straws. You know, people claim like, yeah, but what about January 6th? I'm sorry, you mean the event in which only Trump supporters died? Are you serious right now? That's the event that you're resting your entire house of cards upon. It is, by and large, this is or. Or they'll lie to you about other events to somehow ascribe them to Trump and Trump supporters. There's just too much of that. But the reality, of course, is you and I have been living through it. We've seen how violent the left is, how relentlessly violent the left is, and it shows up in the data. As you just heard Joe Borelli point out, the data here show that most Americans say it is unacceptable to be happy about public figures deaths. That's true. The good sign is most Americans feel that way. But take a look, take a look here at some of this data among Democrats. Among the way that the YouGov poll puts it is libs very liberal people. Very liberal. This is how they describe themselves. 24% of very liberal people say that it is always or usually acceptable to be happy about the death of a political opponent. 24%. That's a quarter of all very liberal libs. 20% say they're not sure whether or not they should be happy about it. Maybe, maybe I should be happy about it. Among people who just call themselves libs, 10% say they're always or usually It's a usual. It's always or usually acceptable to be happy about the death of a political opponent. You get to conservatives on the very same survey and it's almost nonexistent that the conservatives have any desire to see violence happen to their political opponents. Just 4% of people who consider themselves conservative say that it would be always or usually acceptable just for. And it's not even on the chart I'm showing you here. It's not even measurable among the very conservative. Very conservative people essentially want to see no death at all for their political opponents. We are not the same. We are not the same is the read here. In other words, the left has an assassination culture. We've talked about this. It has a proclivity for violence that does not exist on the right. And to go a step further, not only is it a violent bunch, but they're also an ignorant bunch. And that combination is dangerous. Very dangerous. Look here. This is also from a YouGov poll. Cabot Phillips from Daily Wire sharing this data. Only 8% of Democrats know that Charlie Kirk's assassin was a liberal. Only 8%. They don't believe that their side is violent because the legacy media refuses to tell them the truth. Look at the data here. So as far as you know, is the person who shot Charlie Kirk a Democrat or Republican? Neither or not. Sure. And so you know, members of both political parties as well as independents were asked this question. And among Democrats the only single digit response in this entire survey was Democrats who believe that the shooter was a Democrat. 8%. 8% of Democrats believe that the shooter was a Democrat. Now everybody knows that this guy was a full blown left winger. I'm sorry, not everybody. Normal people who are paying attention to this know that this guy was a full blown left winger. What? How do you know, Vince? Because his family said so, because his friends said so. Because the messages are all over Discord. Because he wrote on the bullets his political intent for Charlie Kirk. The guy left an endless supply of evidence to demonstrate that he was a radicalized lefty. And Democrats do not know this. They don't. Only 8% of Democrats are even aware that this dude was a lib. Only 8%. Now contrast that with 41% of Republicans who are aware of this, 35% say they're not sure and 12% say neither. So it's only a very small percentage of Republicans who for whatever reason thought this guy was a Republican. My guess is some of the poll respondents are not even Republicans. They just pretended to be for the purposes of this survey. I don't even know how you could think that this dude was a Republican. Meanwhile, Democrats, 41% of Democrats thought the shooter was a Republican. The party is so, at its core, its base is so deeply ignorant about what's going on in the world. You know, there's long been this absolute defamatory impression of you, which is that you exist in some state of ignorance, that you're uninformed. You have no idea what's going on. If only you were to consume the legacy media, you would know the truth. This is the treatment that the left has given conservatives for years. Acting as if we've. We live in some sort of weird cul de sac that is free of facts. When in reality, conservatives are the most media literate people that I know. Conservatives are the most aware of what's actually going on in the world as compared to their counterparts on the left. And the reason for that is you and I know what the legacy press is talking about. How do we know? We talk about it all the time. What's the legacy media up to right now? What are they telling everybody? How are they trying to mislead you? And then not only do we find out about what the legacy media is saying or are saying, then we also talk about what's the truth? Where are the lies in this reporting? How are they misleading the public? In other words, we have the whole picture. We survey the entire picture. And I will say, as somebody who's in conservative media, been Daily Caller for years, doing radio for years, doing this podcast for some time. You know, I see it sometimes from the audience, like, why are we talking about what that lefty saying? I don't want to hear them. If I wanted to hear them, I'd go to their network. And the obvious reason we talk about these things is because you have massive elements of our society that are being dramatically misled by those very left wing talking points that the ones that we normally can laugh off and ignore, because you and I know that they're not telling the truth, that they're trying to advance a political agenda. But it's important that you study your political opponents here. It's important that you know the messages that they're conveying and what the truth actually is because there are people in your life who are being misled. And not only are they being misled, they're being radicalized. We have on the left an immense ignorance problem and an immense violence problem. And if we don't address that, things in this country will continue to go south. Charlie Kirk's assassination will only be the latest downward spiral that our country experiences, and we just can't let that happen. I've got a lot more ahead on this subject and so much more. 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If you remove happiness and you Just say, hey, could you excuse the death of a political opponent? Well, that number skyrockets. Remember, in April of this year, Rutgers University had a survey that found that a majority of Democrats could justify the assassination of Donald Trump. A majority could offer a justification for that. Nearly half said they could offer a justification for the assassination of Elon Musk. That's how angry they were at Elon Musk for working with President Trump. This. These are astronomical and delusional levels of violence on the left and which desperately needs to be fixed. So what does it lead to? So, you know, for instance, there's a. There's a story I just saw. I just saw this come through. Charlie Kirk. There was a memorial for him set up in Colorado. Have you seen this? There was a memorial for Charlie Kirk set up in Colorado. And this family just set it up in front of their house. They had their fence, had a bunch of Charlie Kirk themed stuff to remember him. And some libs came by and they set the whole thing on fire. Now, as you listen to this, just think to yourself, if we just reversed all of this, if conservatives were burning down memorials to some sort of liberal icon, Dem icon, what would the media coverage for this be like right now? Well, it'd be absurd. It'd be over the top. It'd be MAGA extremists are running wild in America. But this story is barely getting traction in any typical legacy media outlet. It's on the Internet that you get to see this. Listen, what happened to Charlie was unspeakable. You know, everyone is destroyed over this. So Michael and his family created a memorial along their fence to honor the slain CEO of Turning Point usa. But late Saturday night, vandals lit the display on fire. When they burnt that fence, that fire could have went into that house and it could have really harmed somebody. It's the rhetoric. It's what people are being fed. There's so much hate in this world. Yeah. And we need to stop. The vandals also broke the back window of the family's suv. Neighbors have rushed to provide them with support. I saw the damage they had done to my friend, and it just. It ruined me. When we quit communicating with each other, when we stopped the dialogue and we didn't, then we just dehumanized each other. The family spent time repainting the memorial. Now they send this message to all in the community, regardless of anyone's political affiliate. Yeah. I mean, how much more obvious can this be? So the decent people here, here are commemorating the dead. They have a lot of Love and appreciation for Charlie Kirk. They're demonstrating it through just a personal display in front of their house. And then left wing, emotional, incontinent lunatics come and they burn down the display. And I will guarantee you the people who did that don't know the first damn thing about Charlie Kirk. They don't know anything about him. They don't know what he believed. They don't know what he stood for. All they know is that these people are conservative and therefore they need to be attacked. In other words, they're not attacking on the basis of anything Charlie actually did in life. They're upset that Charlie was an effective communicator about ideas that they don't understand and they can't refute. They have no idea what he believed. How many times have you seen the left sharing things in the last week about, oh, this is. This is why Charlie Kirk deserved this. Or you can mourn the dead, but we should be honest about how bad he was in life. And then they'll share things that are not honest, completely dishonest, just straw men that they're constantly lighting on fire that have nothing to do with Charlie Kirk's actual work. And so you get good Americans who are just trying to honor Charlie and they're being attacked by arsonists to give you a sense of what's happening. Another reason for this ignorance. It can be found in places like cbs. So last night, CBS Evening News, their anchor boy, he gets on TV and he says, you know something? It's just not possible to know the motive of the shooter. This is. You're like, why is the left so ignorant? Check out what they're watching. Look at this. Cut 12. Here's the dishonest CBS broadcast last night. Five days after Charlie Kirk's murder. The shooter's motive remains elusive. No writings left behind. Vague secondhand testimony. That uncertainty and the risk of drawing sweeping conclusions suggests the murder may share similarities with recent violence not driven by an obvious political ideology. Are you listening to this? There's. There's no writings left behind. He lies. The writing was inscribed on the side of the bullets that accused Charlie Kirk of being a fascist. The writing was. Was put on the Internet onto discord, where he admitted that he was the killer. The witness testimony from his own family and his friends indicate that he was a radical lefty who absolutely hated Charlie Kirk and intended his destruction because he opposed him politically. They just lie. That guy went on CBS last night and he lied. There's just no way to know. You know, it's a lot Like a lot of these other killings where it's just no way to know what animated these people. What other killings are you talking about? Can you be more specific? What are you referring to? Let me guess. Are you referring to the attack on the Annunciation Catholic Church? Are you saying there's just no way for us to know why that transgender lunatic opened fire on a bunch of Catholic children? Are you talking about the attack on the Covenant School, another Christian school, where a transgender lunatic opened fire on a bunch of Christian children? And you're saying just no way to know? Is that one of those no way to know moments that you're talking about? This is intentional obfuscation. It's meant to try and defray the left's responsibility for breathing life into that monster. In fact, that's the same stunt that they're pulling right now as they try and claim that violence is on both sides. They're trying to defray their responsibility for the monsters that they've created. I heard so much in life is borrowed wisdom. And I'll borrow this from Bhatia Ungar Sargon, who I heard saying this very thing. She said that what's happening right now by the left, anybody who's claiming that there's sort of equivalent violence on both sides, the game that they're playing is they're trying to make it so that conservatives share 50% of the blame for the person who just killed Charlie Kirk. What? What percent of the blame do you think you deserve for the person who killed Charlie Kirk? I know the answer to that. Zero. You bear zero percent of the blame for Charlie Kirk's assassination. Don't try and pass that hot potato. That's on you establishment lefties. That's on you, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. That's on you, AOC and Jasmine Crockett. That's on Eric Swalwell. That's on Jamie Raskin. That's on the whole lot of them. Any Gavin Newsom, J.B. pritzker, Tim Walls, Michelle Wu, all these people who have consistently and thoroughly Joe Biden breathed life into this notion that their political opponents are on the verge of destroying the country, that Donald Trump is about to get rid of elections entirely, that there are fascists on the other side. Those guys are Nazis. They scream Nazis. And the Nazi thing really is. Is one of the centerpieces here of the left's lies about the right, isn't it? Let me ask you a question, Chat. Tell me about this. Did you, growing up, did you ever engage the thought experiment about whether or not you would go back in time and kill baby Hitler. You ever engage in that, the baby Hitler thought experiment? You ever do that where it's like, well, hey, look, you have the opportunity, we have a time machine. You have the opportunity right now to go back and stop World War II, stop the Holocaust. Would you go back and do this if you had the opportunity? Now you say no, you've never engaged in that thought experiment. It's like a dorm room conversation. Yeah, A couple of people say yes. A lot of. A lot of no's in the chat. Okay. But you're at least aware of it. You're aware of the thought experiment. Yeah. And so basically at its core is that like every good and decent person loathes the behavior of the Nazis. And so the frame up in our culture is that like, hey, if they're a Nazi, you gotta stop them by any means necessary. You're gonna let Hitler do the Holocaust? No, you're gonna stop him. You have to kill him. That's the thing. And so they keep repeating these lines and our political opponents are Nazis, our political opponents are Nazis. What do we do to Nazis? And at the end of the day, there are people who believe this horseshit. There are people who believe it and then they act on it. And so this is. We're witnessing it right now. We're witnessing that very moment right now. I've got more for you. It's not all chaos. We've got Republicans, we've got good people, conservatives, we've got Americans who are honoring Charlie Kirk through prayer vigils and all sorts of remembrances right now. I'll get to some of that in just a moment. Some touching stuff. Although the left is working to diminish it as usual. I've got the details. It's all ahead on this edition of. Vince, man, the time is flying. Great to have you with us. Hey. More and more Americans are prioritizing their wellness. They're getting back in shape. But studies prove that strength training actually does more to help burn fat than cardio alone. And I've been working with Don and the team over at Jacked Up Fitness for a couple of months now. 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Political violence, an assassination. Our friend Charlie did not pass away in a. In a car accident. He was assassinated for standing for his political beliefs.
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And so it's.
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For so many of us, it has felt as if the ground has been shaken. And it's not just the people assembled here, of course. It involves students on university campuses around America and the over 3,000 chapters of Turning Point that are on university college campuses and high school campuses around the country. And all of the people in the network and in the conservative movement and throughout the nation that have heard Charlie's voice and felt a part of all that he was involved with because he was on a mixture of media and his voice was heard loudly and clearly. What we do know about Charlie is that he would not want us to be overcome by despair and would want us to carry the message forward, to honor his memory and to expand the legacy they left behind.
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You know, I'm glad that members of Congress did that yesterday. Obviously, one of the reasons they would do something like that is to demonstrate to you that they care. Which, fine, I'll take that demonstration. But what I'm more interested in is that those members of Congress internalize the lessons of Charlie Kirk. What was he all about? What did he stand for? And that those members of Congress find the kind of courage that Charlie demonstrated with each passing event, with each passing debate up until the moment of his death. We need people with backbone. We need people with testicular fortitude to represent us in Congress. And not everybody has it. Not yet. And I hope that not only is this a moment of inspiration for each of us in our personal lives, but it's a moment of inspiration for elected members of Congress that they can look at this and go, what am I doing? Why am I playing footsie with the left at all? Why am I doing anything like that? I just need to fight for this country. So, you know, fine. Just. I want these members of Congress to marinate in this, and hopefully it makes them better. Now, additionally, Democrats apparently basically refused to show up last night. Almost none, actually. Bloomberg News reporter Eric Watson reported that a handful of Democrats came to the Charlie Kirk vigil in the Capitol. They didn't have to travel far. It's literally in Statuary hall, which is a very cool place to visit inside the Capitol building. And they said that the Democrats who attended included Suzy Dingle, Larson, and Pappas. That's about it. It became a partisan thing. What is wrong with these people? What is wrong with. So they're not going out of their way to demonstrate that they're the party that will take the high road. You know, there's a lot of moral lecturing that comes from the left. But when an American dies and then the American people are in mourning and an entire political party decides to skip the remembrance, what message are they sending exactly? In case you're wondering who's on your side, I know you're not. But just another reminder on that subject, Vice President Vance, during his broadcast yesterday on Charlie Kirk's program. Hosting Charlie Kirk's program, he brought on a number of guests that includes my. My dear friend Tucker Carlson came on and Tucker talked about one of the things that Charlie taught Tucker. And Tucker, Tucker kind of points out, like, Charlie, Charlie's so much younger than I am. And I kind of wrongly assumed that somebody who's that young couldn't teach me anything. But sure enough, Charlie Kirk taught Tucker some things. Here is Tucker, Cut three, reflecting on the life of Charlie Kirk and the way that he changed Tucker's life.
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His commitment to Jesus was totally sincere. And it sometimes isn't, especially in public figures who throw out Bible verses they don't understand and stuff like that. But in his case, not speaking anyone in particular. But in his case, it informed every single part of his life, from his marriage, the way he treated his children to the way he treated his staff. He's literally the age of one of my children.
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So it was kind of hard to.
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Take him seriously at first. And over the years that I knew him more than 10 years, I ended up learning from him. I'm not just saying this because he's passed. I mean that sincerely. And the main thing that I learned from him was how to disagree with people on topics that you take very seriously and that they take very seriously without hating them or without feeling bitterness. I mean, he, it wasn't, you know, if people knew what was going on behind the scenes. You know, there was a lot going on behind the scenes, and it was intense and it was bitter. And, you know, because the divide, particularly in foreign policy questions, is very real in the Republican Party, neocons versus the realists, or however you want to describe it. He was on the realist side for sure, but he was mad at the people who disagreed with him. He liked them as people. He agreed with him on some things. And he would always say that, you know, I agree. In private, he would say that. And, you know, I was involved in it because people were mad at him for having me at his conferences or for talking to me. And so we had cause to talk about it a lot up until he was assassinated. And I was so struck the whole time, I would say, you know, I would use the ugly language I'm famous for in private, and he would never talk like that. He would say, well, you know, I agree with him on this.
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Yeah. I mean, the message there is clearly. This is. This is something that we've talked about a couple times. But I'll reiterate now, there are obviously debates on the right about any number of issues. You know, the. Just. Just how we go after the left, how we. How we defeat them authentically in an American political bout, not with violence, the way that they act. There's gonna be debates about that. There's obviously big debates about American support for Israel, what that should look like and how extensive should it be. Those are all perfectly fine conversations to have. But the venom that exists within some of those debates where people on the right are really going after one another. Charlie represented a different and more wholesome way. His view was just like, we need a dialogue. We need to talk amongst each other. Like we. We have. You know, we're together on 85% of these issues or more. Let's acknowledge where we share a lot of territory here and keep our eyes focused on a unified opponent, which is the left, which. Which is not with us at all, which outright, in some cases wants to kill us. That's the message from all of that. And we do well. And you can hear Tucker saying he would do well to remember that as often as possible. We all would. We all would be better served by appreciating the people that we do share so much in common with ideologically, who really do care about the longevity of the country in which we live. So that's good. And Charlie represented a bridging of those gaps. Charlie was friends with everybody. Charlie was a unifier in the conservative movement, a great organizer, a great advocate for conservative principles, a great spokesman, a great. Just a. An innate and unusual ability to speak to young people. And he was a bridge. He was the guy who brought the right together. Let me also. I've got some other things here on this murderer. One of my joys in life is that I get to author or work with White House correspondents on questions for the President of the United States. And that includes the great Reagan Reese, who I speak to very frequently, including yesterday morning, we were having a text exchange on this subject. She had an opportunity to be with the President yesterday for his Oval Office announcement. This is where he was saying that they're going into Memphis, Tennessee. Let me just start with the President's announcement because they are sending the National Guard into Memphis, which could desperately use it. Remember, Tennessee is a Republican led state at the governor's office. But Memphis is run by Democrats into the ground. And here's the President yesterday talking about why we need this. Cut 8. Take a look at this.
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A person is four times more likely to be murdered in Memphis, Tennessee today than in Mexico City. It's been, and you know, Mexico City is not a cakewalk. It's been overrun with carjackings, robbery, shootings and killings. There were 249 murders, 429 rapes, 5,616 burglaries and 12,500 2022 violent assaults in just the last little while in 2024 and in pieces of 2025 where it's actually gotten worse until recently when we sent the FBI down to see what the hell is going on.
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Yeah. All right, so National Guard going into Memphis, which is great news. And one of the questions I've had for the President here is what other cities is he going into. We've been advocating here on this program for the President to go in and do as many Republican states as possible that have out of control blue cities. And sure enough, it sounds like that is happening from St. Louis, Missouri to New Orleans, Louisiana. The President laid out yesterday some of the details about where he plans to go next in order to bring about a peace. Here is Reagan Reese asking him about this cut nine in the president's response. You floated potentially going into St. Louis. You mentioned you want to go into Chicago next. Could St. Louis be after Chicago?
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It's going to be around there someplace. Yeah. We got to save St. Louis. We got to save these cities. This isn't like, you know, we're going to do something. We have to save St. Louis. We have to save Chicago. I know all about Chicago. I have a great, beautiful building. I'm so proud of it. But you know, you get less proud when you see all the crime. When they announced two weeks 11 people killed, this over a weekend, I think they said 38 people shot and 11 people dead. And then you watch Pritzker get up and say we've got crime under control. And I will say that cash and the FBI did job a great, good job with a very light force. They went in and for the about four months cash or so they've Been working on keeping crime down. They have brought the numbers down a little bit.
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Yeah. All right. And he goes on at the end of that quote to say, hey, we're also going to go into New Orleans. So you're getting a picture here. It's Chicago, it's Memphis, it's St. Louis, Missouri and New Orleans, Louisiana. These are the, the top four that he's focusing on right now to, to bring about a peace. And I expect more cities in the weeks and months to come. And hopefully the President just keeps on racking up his track record, record of success in improving the safety of the United States, especially in these very dangerous and violent cities. Now, Reagan also got an opportunity to ask a second question here. And this was also important to me yesterday. Does the President believe that the shooter, Tyler Robinson, acted alone? Is the President convinced he acted alone or is he concerned that there's a broader network involved in the assassination of Charlie Kirk? Because one reason I'm raising this, one of many is, you know, you had Dan Bongino, the deputy director of the FBI, the great Dan Bongino, saying yesterday on television, yes, we are investigating whether or not there is any other component to this beyond the shooter himself. Is there any organized structure behind it that's clearly being dug into? And here's the president yesterday, cut 5 on whether the assassin worked alone. Here's what President Trump had to say. Your FBI is investigating the potential role of left wing organizations in the assassination. I'm wondering if you think if Charlie Kirk's assassin worked alone or if he worked with.
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Dude, I don't know. I mean, I can tell you he didn't work alone on the Internet. But because it seems that he became radicalized on the Internet, that's just by watching what same things that you're watching and hearing. It looks like he became radicalized over the Internet. And it seems like he has wonderful parents, brought in a wonderful neighborhood, smart guy, great boards, great marks, great student. And then he. Something happened to him over a fairly short period of time. Time looks like he was radicalized over the Internet and it's radicalized on the left. He's a left. A lot of problems with the left and they get protected and they shouldn't be protected. But as you understand, I think very well from the tone of your question. Thank you very much.
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So the President saying, look, there's a lot of organization that it seems to exist on the Internet and there's plenty of predicate for that. In fact, yesterday the Washington Free Beacon had a, it's typically Great news coverage of this subject. They said they have an exclusive that says that the FBI is investigating social media accounts that appear to indicate foreknowledge of Charlie Kirk's assassination. And I want to give credit to my friend Benny Johnson, who brought this to my attention yesterday. The great Aaron Saberium writing this. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, excuse me, investigation, is investigating social media posts by at least seven different accounts. Count them, seven that appeared to indicate foreknowledge of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. That's according to three people who are familiar with the investigation and screenshots that have been obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. All of these posts were deleted in the days after the September 10th killing. Several of these accounts belong to transgender people, and at least one of the accounts follows Tyler Robinson's roommate with whom he was allegedly in a relationship. That roommate, we now know, considers himself to be transgender. So that feature keeps popping up in this story. The FBI has all of the archived copies of the post, according to a person who flagged them for the agency. Well, God bless whoever did this, whoever did the research on this subject and sent it over to the FBI. Screenshots of these posts have been circulating online. They weren't previously authenticated. While the posts don't establish that any of the individuals knew or conspired with Robinson, in other words, the posts don't establish that yet. They might, but yet these posts don't establish that the 22 year old gunman who shot Kirk. Several of them mention the conservative activist by name and fantasize about his death. Pay attention to this one. For instance, look at this. This is. This guy. Mushy is the name of the, the handle on the account. Mushy. Let me move this in center frame so everybody can see it. Mushy, who wrote on September 3rd it would be funny if someone like Charlie Kirk got shot on September 10? LMAO. That was seven days before the assassination. Seven days by September 11, the same account just tweeted out did I? As a way of maybe saying, did I cause this or something. And then on the 13th of September wrote Donald Trump December 14th on the same thing, either indicating supposed foreknowledge of an attempt on Donald Trump's life or trying to crack a joke, a horrific and not funny at all joke. This idea that maybe he can preordain the death of people by simply by tweeting it. So that's an account that clearly had the right date and tweeted it a week beforehand. And, and this person is not alone. There's there's other posts here. Another account posting on August 6, more than a month before the shooting, that September 10 will be a very interesting day. And then after Kirk was assassinated, that same account followed up with I plead the fifth. That morbid quip was reposted by an account named cherbom75m saw Tyler June 30th. That's the name of the whole account. Who appears to follow Robinson's roommate, a guy called Lance Twigs. This is the guy who thinks he's a woman. Twigs username is Lancelot. Further below, minutes after Kirk was pronounced dead, sherbum75m posted on X We fucking did it. The same account again. This is this all deserves, and it's receiving right now, an FBI investigation. Several of the accounts under investigation appear to be associated with the LGBT subculture. One individual, calling himself Osamo bin Tezuka, used the X handle Fujo S sorry fu Josh Incel, a reference to a genre of anime that depicts romantic relationships between men. Another user, Nadra Galves, who had wished death to Kirk and predicted that something big will happen when he set foot on campus, identified himself as non binary on X. And in a video that was posted on TikTok, this one, this one's wild. The night before the shooting, an individual who appears to be transgender wrote that quote, Charles James Kirk, Mr. College Dropout, does not know what's coming tomorrow. Be ready. This isn't a threat. It's a promise. Well, that's a lot of social media action. That's a lot of social media action. The investigation of the Post comes as the FBI is already examining whether pro transgender groups knew about Robinson's plan in advance. That probe, first reported by the New York Post, includes Armed queers slc, whose logo features high caliber rifle bullets. And those bullets, to be clear, include the name of the organization inscribed on the side of the bullets, which is consistent with the behavior of the killer in this case. So that is yet another horrific feature of all of this. You know, it is absolutely worthwhile to dig into who else may have been a part of this. Dan Bongino saying that, yes, we are digging into whether or not there is a broader conspiracy here. So let me one more thing before we go today. I do want to talk to you about the fact that the effort to fight America's drug problem continues. Over 100,000Americans each year die due to drug overdoses and the President is taking it seriously. This is, of course, what people voted for, going after the cartels to stop all of the this we have New video. The President of the United States. Cut 10. Take a look at this. This is a new strike on yet another Venezuelan trend. Aragua drug shipment. On your screen, if you're watching the video podcast, you're watching a boat just floating in the water and then all of a sudden it's blown up. I mean, just covered, engulfed in flames. The footage says unclassified. You can thank the President of the United States for that. He's un, he's, he's declassified. All of this footage showing these boats being taken out when they're en route to the United States to stop the, the, the horrific killing of American citizens that continues at the hands of the cartel. Thank you to the President for doing that. Here's the President yesterday asked once again by the media why he's being mean to the cartels. Cut 13. They're asking, how do you know that this was an actual drug boat? How do we know you didn't just kill a bunch of tourists who were trying to sneak into the United States to do tourism or something? Take a look. Here's the President yesterday.
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All you have to do is look at the cargo that was like it spattered all over the ocean. Big bags of cocaine and Fenton all over the place. And it was. Plus, we have recorded evidence that they were leaving. We've recorded them this very careful because we, we know you people would be after us. We're very careful. The military, the military has been amazing. And General Kane showed me a little while ago the clip. But you could actually see it. But you don't have to see it because we have recorded proof and evidence. We know what time they were leaving, when they were leaving, what they had, and all of the other things that you'd like to have.
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Yeah. Three terrorists yesterday became candles, right? Floating in the middle of the sea. They were lit up yesterday by the American military. And the President says, look, we've got them dead to rights. We had all the evidence in the world. Why are you rooting against us protecting Americans? My buddy Chris Plant has a great assessment on all of this. He always says, they're not on our side. And that's true. That's true. I will borrow that wisdom until I'm dead. They're not on our side. If the questions become, why are you targeting them? Why are you being so mean? Why are you using the military for direct American interests? This is the same media that doesn't bother to ask any questions about Americans dying in far away wars. What about wars that are on our shores already? Why are you so mad about using the military to protect Americans? Again, they're not on our side. They're not. Thank you, President Trump, for being on our side. I'm glad. I'm glad he did that. We've got. We've got Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in this country who are under attack. Over the the last week, there have been two vehicular attacks by illegal aliens against ICE agents who've been wounded in these attacks. It's awful, awful stuff. This is very hard work, and I want to end today by once again just expressing my gratitude to the men and women of ICE who are doing the difficult work of these deportations. According to DHS, the assaults on ICE officers are now up over 1,000%. So in other words, what we're witnessing is either radical lefties are attacking ICE officers or the beneficiaries of the radical left, that would be. Illegal aliens who've invaded our country oftentimes at taxpayer expense, are now attacking law enforcement for merely enforcing the law. And they're receiving it from all directions. The ICE agents are being attacked by people like Jasmine Crockett. All these Democrats, Jasmine Crockett, being a psycho, just called the ICE agents. Slave patrols check out cut six. This is how a Democrat member of Congress talks about the people who are merely enforcing the law. Look at this. But as somebody who understands history, when I see. I see slave patrols now, I never lived through the slave patrol period, but if you know the history of policing in this country, then you understand that they were born out of slave patrols. You know literally nothing. Actually, you know absolutely nothing. And in your ignorance, you spew so much divisive poison, it's unfathomable. So again, she. She doesn't know anything. She's like 12 years old. I didn't live through slave patrols. No, you live in the greatest country on Earth. Every morning you wake up, you should kiss the ground and be grateful that God have you be born here. So crazy. The utter contempt for our country and then rooting against the people who are trying to safeguard it. This is not going to end well. Please, for the love of God, find your soul. It's in there somewhere. All right. Thanks as always for being with us. I've got the big national radio show coming up today, 12 to 3 Eastern Time. You can go to the Vince Show.com to get your local listings or watch us live. Rumble.com Vince, I hope you join us. Great to have you with us. As always, the best audience anywhere. I'm back with you tomorrow. It.