Vice President JD Vance was close friends with Charlie Kirk.

Kirk’s murder hit Vance like a freight train.

And JD Vance was red with rage over what he learned after Charlie Kirk’s murder.

JD Vance Addresses Charlie Kirk Conspiracy Theories

Pro-transgender leftist Tyler Robinson is standing trial for Kirk’s assassination.

To many Americans, the evidence is cut and dry.

But in the immediate aftermath of Kirk’s murder, a cottage industry of conspiracy theories about foreign involvement, if Kirk was killed by an exploding microphone and if other members of Kirk’s organization Turning Point USA polluted social media.

In an appearance on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show, the hosts asked Vance to address the conspiracies that took hold on social media following his friends murder.

“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 began. “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 wondered. “I know Erika has been attacked immensely over this, too.”

Vance said what angered him the most about the theories are people who invent falsehoods about Kirk’s widow Erika to try and claim she was in on her husband’s killing.

“I’m most frustrated at the attacks on Erika and some of the other staff,” Vance replied. “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 Lets Loose

The Vice President told Sexton and Travis that it was legitimate to ask questions about Robin’on’s motive and if other people were involved in a plot to kill Kirk.

“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,” Vance added.

But Vance drew a firm line at seeking the truth and smearing Erika Kirk.

“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 concluded.

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