While speaking at a Turning Point USA event on Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance was heckled by a man who criticized U.S. military action in the Middle East.
The person disrupted the event, shouting that the United States is “committing genocide in Gaza” while the vice president responded to the pope’s condemnation of the Iran war.
In a brief aside from his main point, Vance pointed to U.S. humanitarian aid efforts in a rebuttal to the man’s claim that the Trump administration committed or supported a genocide in Gaza.
“When we came in, the humanitarian situation in Gaza was an absolute catastrophe. You know who’s the person who got a peace agreement in Gaza? Donald J. Trump,” he said to applause from the crowd in Athens, Georgia.
“So if you want, sir, to complain about what happened in Gaza, why don’t you complain about Joe Biden in the last administration? We’re the
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