‘It Just Enrages Me!’ JD Vance Goes Off on Conspiracy Theories Attacking Erika Kirk

Vice President J.D. Vance vehemently defended Turning Point USA’s Erika Kirk from conspiracy theorists making up stories about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Vance phoned in to The Clay & Buck Show, where Clay Travis asked him to “tee off” on comments being made in the aftermath of the shooting allegedly committed by Tyler Robinson, who still has not entered a plea in the case.

“The amount of crazy surrounding the conspiracies that have been alleged, and everything else relating to Charlie Kirk, frankly has driven Buck and I mad,” Travis said about his co-host and former CIA analyst Buck Sexton. “We take calls here, and people call in and say, ‘Oh, he had an exploding microphone on his body, it wasn’t actually a gun. It wasn’t really him that was doing the shooting, it was Israel.'”

“How frustrated are you by those conspiracy theories?” Travis asked. “I know Erika has been attacked immensely over this, too.”

“I’m most frustrated at the attacks on Erika and some of the other staff,” Vance began. “You know, Mikey [McCoy], who was Charlie’s chief of staff and a very good friend of both of ours. You know, Mikey was the person who called me and told me that he thought Charlie actually had a chance when he was in the hospital. You know, of course, that didn’t work out. But the idea that somehow these people were involved in Charlie’s death just enrages me.”

Vance continued:

And you know, we all have friends who have family members that we love and just the idea that Erika has suffered not just the loss of Charlie, but all this B.S. that’s directed at her, that’s very frustrating to me. The conspiracy theories writ large, I mean, I obviously haven’t followed all of them — I’ve actually tried to follow a lot of them because I do think one of the ways that all of us reacted, or at least a lot of us reacted, a lot of my friends reacted to Charlie’s death was, we tried to learn about as much about it as possible. You know, “Who’s Tyler Robinson, why did he do it? You know, were there other people that had foreknowledge of it.”

“So, there’s a lot of like, I understand the desire to not buy the official narrative, but if you’re going down a rabbit hole that leads you to attack Erika Kirk, I mean, all we can do is trust our instincts, but also trust in our rationality, and I know Erika. She’s a very, very good person, and she’s trying to raise two kids who just lost their father, and she just doesn’t deserve the attacks that have been leveled against her,” Vance added.

Watch the clip above via The Clay & Buck Show.

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