Vice President JD Vance unleashed a fiery takedown of America’s radical Left on Monday afternoon during a live broadcast of The Charlie Kirk Show hosted from the White House.

The special broadcast came just five days after the shocking assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was murdered by a 22-year-old left-wing terrorist at Utah Valley University.

Authorities have confirmed that the assassin, Tyler Robinson, engraved his ammunition casings with Antifa and transgender slogans.

During his closing remarks, Vance spoke with brutal clarity about the sickness gripping the Left:

JD Vance:
“In a country of 330 million people, you can, of course, find one person of a given political persuasion justifying this or that—or almost anything.

But the data is clear: 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 more malignant problem, and that is the truth we must tell. That problem has terrible consequences.”

Vance recalled how President Trump barely escaped an assassin’s bullet, how Rep. Steve Scalise nearly lost his life to a leftist gunman, and now how America’s most influential young conservative figure was murdered in cold blood.

“The leader of our party, Donald J. Trump, escaped an assassin’s bullet by less than an inch. Our House Majority Whip, Steve Scalise, came within seconds of death by an assassin himself. Now the most influential conservative activist in generations—our friend Charlie—has been murdered.

This violence doesn’t come from nowhere. Any political movement, violent or not, is a collection of forces. It’s like a pyramid that stacks one support on top of another. That pyramid has a foundation of donors, activists, journalists, social media influencers, and of course politicians.”

Vance’s most powerful moment came when he declared that conservatives must reject calls for “unity” with people who defend political murder.

“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.

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—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.

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 that I will tell you a difficult truth: we can only have unity with people who acknowledge that political violence is unacceptable, and when we work to dismantle the institutions that promote violence in our own country.

Now, our government—you heard me talk to Stephen Miller about this—will be working very hard to do exactly that in the months to come. We’re not always going to get it right.

We will sometimes move more slowly than you would like. We will sometimes move more slowly than I want us to. But I promise you that we will explore every option to bring real unity to our country and stop those who would kill their fellow Americans because they don’t like what they say.

But you have a role, too. Civil society—Charlie understood this well—is not just something that flows from the government. It flows from each and every one of us.

When you see someone celebrating Charlie’s murder, call them out. In hell, call their employer. We don’t believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility. There is no civility in the celebration of political assassination.

Get involved. Get involved. Get involved. It’s the best way to honor Charlie’s legacy. Start a chapter of TPUSA or get involved in the one that already exists. If you’re older, volunteer for your local party, write an op-ed in your local paper, run for office.

I can’t promise you this is going to be easy. 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. Go—do it. We owe it to our friend to ensure that his killer is not just prosecuted but punished.

The worst punishment is not the death penalty, but the knowledge that Charlie’s mission continues after he’s gone.

Saint Paul tells us in the Book of Ephesians to put on the full armor of God.”