09/16/2025

JD Vance Vows Retribution on Liberal Institutions after Charlie Kirk's Death

Trump also denounced groups on the left

Earlier this week, Vice President JD Vance vowed to dismantle institutions on the left that he said promote violence and terrorism, denouncing two of the country’s most prominent liberal foundations in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

President Donald Trump later in the day also attacked groups on the left and renewed his talk about potential racketeering prosecutions of unspecified groups that he alleged were involved in paying for violent protests.

Vance called out the "generous tax treatment" that George Soros's Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation receive as he accused the groups of funding a "disgusting article" in The Nation magazine that he said was used to justify Kirk's death. Neither group appears to have provided money to the Nation in the past five years.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Washington Post.