WASHINGTON: Vice President JD Vance and another top official in President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday argued that serving the memory of Charlie Kirk means pursuing left-leaning groups they portray as bent on undermining national unity. Vance, who guest-hosted the slain conservative activist’s livestream show, amplified right-wing calls for a broadside against leftist groups after Kirk was assassinated last week as he addressed college students.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Vance’s guest on the program, said Kirk’s final message to him called for a coordinated effort against unnamed left-wing groups accused of promoting violence, pledging the federal government would use “every available resource” to dismantle them.
“With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people,” he said. “It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”
Later, Miller told reporters at the White House that the Trump administration is looking at holding criminally accountable a network of “nonprofit entities” that organize attacks on law enforcement, use doxxing and supply materials used in riots. He did not provide evidence of such wrongdoing.
