JD Vance’s Shutdown Talking Point Is a SHAM
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🗓️ 30 September 2025
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| 0:26.1 | J.D. Vance's lies. And obviously that tickled my pickle. That's a favorite topic of mine, |
| 0:31.7 | J.D. Vance's lies. And we listed out a few of them from over the weekend. And before we get to those, Will, the one that I just can't get over is, because it continues to be something these guys advance, is his lie in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination about what motivated that shooter. |
| 0:50.9 | And we can just play a little clip from it here. |
| 0:52.9 | We're talking about having law enforcement |
| 0:55.3 | go after the people who engage in and fund literal violence. And they're saying somehow that's |
| 1:01.8 | beyond the pale, even though we know Joe Biden's FBI was investigating Charlie Kirk. Maybe they should |
| 1:07.0 | have been investigating the networks that motivated, inspired, and maybe even |
| 1:11.7 | funded Charlie Kirk's murder. If they had, Charlie Kirk might be alive today. This is him saying |
| 1:16.8 | that, like, that this person, the Tower Robinson might have been funded by the left. The degree to |
| 1:23.8 | which the vice president has gone overboard in trying to act like any of these shootings that have come from a perpetrator from the left might be part of some broader scheme. Well, meanwhile, there are a couple of shootings over the weekend that potentially it seems like the perpetrator might have come for the right. He doesn't talk about those at all. That's the most maddening for me of his lives. I haven't had a chance to talk to you about that, |
| 1:45.3 | but I'm wondering what you, what you think. Yeah, I mean, I think it reflects the basic opportunism |
| 1:49.9 | of the Trump administration. I mean, okay, it's a totally human reaction to say a friend of |
| 1:55.1 | ours was murdered in cold blood. You know, this shooter should be fully prosecuted. But to then |
| 2:00.6 | try to pull threads on that to implicate, like, organizations that have nothing to do with violence. |
| 2:06.8 | That tells me they don't really care. |
| 2:08.7 | I mean, I don't want to say they don't care about Charlie Kirk. |
| 2:10.9 | They do. |
| 2:11.6 | But they're using it. |
| 2:12.8 | They're seizing on it as an opportunity to try to implicate some broader network. |
| 2:17.4 | And basically, people who are just |
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