Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday the Left was largely responsible for the majority of political violence in the United States, days after Secret Service hurriedly escorted him offstage during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
“Political violence right now is coming not exclusively, but largely from one side of the aisle,” Vance said on Fox News’s the Will Cain show. “The president has now faced three serious attempts on his life in just the past year-and-a-half.”
Vance denounced critics who claimed that President Donald Trump had incited violence against himself during his appearance on Fox.
“If you’re engaged in that kind of rhetoric, you need to check yourself,” Vance said. “You need to look yourself in the mirror and say that political disagreement is fine, but inviting violence upon your political opponents makes you part of the problem.”
At the dinner, Vance was forcibly moved by the Secret Service off the main
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