'Soulless liar': JD Vance hit with fury for 'disturbingly un-American' shooting response

JD Vance late Wednesday night said the woman who was shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis experienced a “tragedy of her own making," leading to furious pushback from political experts.

Conservative author Sohrab Ahmari took to X to post a video he said showed ICE was in the right when an agent shot a woman in the face at point-blank range when she was trying to turn her car away from him to leave the scene. Sharing an obscured, faraway angle of the event, he wrote, "OK, and this angle settles it. She actually makes contact with the officer in front of the vehicle. You can hate ICE, but this angle is definitive. He fired in self-defense after she made frontal contact."

The Vice President of the U.S. reposted that quote, and added a simple message:

"Correct. You can accept that this woman's death is a tragedy while acknowledging it's a tragedy of her own making. Don't illegally interfere in federal law enforcement operations and try to run over our officers with your car. It's really that simple."

This reply didn't sit well with analysts.

Congressman Seth Moulton replied, "JDVance is lying. She wasn’t 'interfering' with law enforcement and this wasn’t a 'tragedy of her own making.' Every video shows it. Blaming a murdered woman to shield federal officers is grotesque and disturbingly un-American. We will not ignore what we can see with our own eyes."

Conservative strategist Tim Miller replied, "Among the people who think assassination is the appropriate remedy for not listening to law enforcement: the vice president."

Writer Greg Sargent chimed in, "He fired several shots from the side, into the window at near point-blank range, *after* he was to the side of the car and plainly not in any danger. There is no credible way to call that self-defense and no justification whatsoever for it. He clearly overreacted at a minimum. Blaming her for it is disgusting."

Journalist John Harwood also weighed in, writing, simply, "She didn't try to run him over you repulsive soulless liar."

Podcast host Adam Johnson chimed in, "Just an evil, empty man."

"When it benefited his career he went on MSNBC and NPR and told rich liberals his relatives were intractable, drug-addled hicks, when he saw the MAGA writing on the wall c 2021 he became a Thiel vessel," he added. "Now he’s chief nazi propagandist writing in Yalie tones."

The Guardian's Robert Mackey said, "They ask us to ignore video recorded at close range and claim a distant clip, slowed down, proves she tried to 'run over' the officer."

"But if you watch that video at normal speed, it shows how easily he kept his feet and she accelerated *after being shot*," Mackey added.