Charlie Kirk “was a critical part of getting Donald Trump elected as president, getting me elected as vice president, and so much of our success over the last seven months is due to his efforts,” said JD Vance today.

Today’s VP-hosted podcast comes just five days after the 31-year-old Kirk was shot dead on the campus of Utah Valley University in front of students and his own young children.

“Violence is not okay in our system,” the self-described “Vice President of these United States” added of the September 10 shooting.. “I really hope that this assassin didn’t silence Charlie’s movement,” Vance said of the college campus focused Turning Point USA co-founder and MAGA activist, who he Monday called a “dear friend.”

Since Kirk’s death last week, Trump and other members of his Whit

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