Washington (AP) – Vice President JD Vance said on Monday when he organized Charlie Kirk’s radio show that after killing the conservative political activist, he was “desperate” for the national unity, but that the search for similarities with people who celebrated his friend’s assassination is impossible.
As the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” from his ceremonial office in the Eisenhower -Executive Office building next to the White House, the Republican Vice President fulfilled “The Charlie Kirk Show”. The livestream of the two-hour program was broadcast in the press room of the White House and showed a number of appearances by the White House and the administrative officials who knew the 31-year-old Kirk.
Vance, who transported Kirk’s body home from Utah to Arizona on board the Air Force two last week, was opened by saying that he had “filled out for someone who cannot be filled, but I will do my best.” He told about his conversations with Kirk’s widow Erika and her memories of him as a warm, loving husband.
In his final comments, Vance criticized what he said, lies about Kirk, whom he blamed for killing. He also promised that the Trump government would act to stop someone who would kill another person because of their words. Over the years, Kirk made comments that some Democrats and others said that they were against immigrants, racist, hostile to women, or insulting.
“I am desperate that our country combined in the condemnation of the actions and the ideas that my friend killed,” said Vance about the program. “I want it so much that I will tell you a difficult truth. We can only have it with people who acknowledge that political violence is unacceptable.”
Kirk’s influence on Trump and Vance
Vances himself described “Moonlighting” as a replacement radio host as well as the broadcast of the program from the white house elaborate served as a powerful memory of Kirk’s close relationship with the Trump-Vance team and the valuable role of Kirk’s operation, which played the operation of the youth vice participation in the campaign.
The 41 -year -old Republican Vice President was particularly close to Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, one of the country’s largest political organizations with chapters on high school and college campus. The two started a friendship almost a decade ago, and Kirk campaigned for Vance to be the election of Republican Donald Trump for the Vice President last year. Kirk was also someone who had Trump’s ear.
Vance spoke on Monday in the show segment of the show that he was sitting with Erika Kirk last week. But he said she told him something that he would never forget, namely that the father of her two little children had never increased his voice to her and was never “cross or mean to her”.
Vance allowed him not to say the same thing about himself.
“From that moment I assumed that I had to be a better husband and I had to be a better father,” said the Vice President on the program, which is broadcast on Rumble, a streaming platform. “That’s how I will honor my friend.”
The white house and the administrative officials mourn Kirk
Others who joined Vance in Kirk’s program were Stab chief Susie Wiles, secretary of the health and human service, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., press spokesman Karoline Leavitt and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
The conversation turned to the fight against what Vance described as “solemn violence on the far left”, with Miller, the first guest.
“With God as my witness, we will use any resource that we have in the Ministry of Justice, the Heimatschutz and this government to identify, disrupt and destroy these networks,” said Miller. “It will happen and we will do it in Charlie’s names.”
Law enforcement officers have assumed that the suspect who was accused of having killed Kirk was alone.
The relationship between Vance and Kirk
Vance, who said: “I owe Charlie so much”, his close friendship with Kirk developed in a long social media post slow on the night of killing the conservative activist. Vance said it started by accident after he was published by the conservative moderator Tucker Carlson. Kirk sent Vance a private message about social media, which Vance announced that he had done a “great job”.
“And this moment of goodness started a friendship that continued to this day,” wrote the Vice President.
Vance said that he and Kirk were both “skeptical” towards Donald Trump during his presidential campaign in 2016, but came to support the president that has now existed twice.
Kirk was one of the first people who heard Vance at the beginning of 2021 when the Republican in Ohio was “interested, but skeptical” to run for a seat in the USA, the Vice President said in a testimony of Kirk’s role in his political advancement.
“We spoke everything through the strategy to the fundraising campaign to the base of the movement, which he knew so well,” said Vance. “He introduced me to some of the people who would carry out my campaign and also Donald Trump Jr., who” accepted a call from me because Charlie asked him “.
Vance said Kirk made sure that he spoke to Kirk’s donor to a turning point in the USA when he had no reason to facilitate someone who was as deep as he was, “he did it because we were friends and because he was a good man.”
Vance and others earn Kirk’s efforts and influence to facilitate Trump gain re -election.
“As much of the success we had in this administration, speak directly to Charlie’s ability to organize and meet,” said Vance in the post office. “He not only helped us in 2024, he also helped us fill the entire government.
He added the program: “If Charlie Kirk weren’t, I wouldn’t be the Vice President of the United States … it is one of the reasons why I am so thanked for him.”
Vance as a radio show Host
Jody Baumgartner, professor of political science at East Carolina University in North Carolina, said that Vance’s hosting is likely to be possible because Vice President have more free time than the presidents.
“If President Trump had time to do something like that, don’t you think he would do it?” Asked Baumgartner. “It is an interesting question about resources and time, but a vice president has the time that a president does not do so.”
After Kirk’s assassination attempt
After Kirk was fatally shot at Utah Valley University last Wednesday, Vance opened his schedule for the next day – he was to take part in the 24th annual compliance in New York in September 11, 2001 on Thursday to fly to Orem, Uem, with his wife, the second Lady Usha Vance.
The couple accompanied Erika Kirk and Charlie Kirks Sarg to Arizona on board the Air Force Two.
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The Associated Press Writer Chris Megerian has contributed to the reporting.
