Vice President JD Vance vowed to track down alleged left-wing terror "networks," which he insisted were purchasing bricks to throw at Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
On Tuesday, Vance told conservative podcast host Scott Jennings that his family was doing well after a man "attacked" their house with a hammer while they were away.
"I guess this person probably assumed we were still there, decided to make an attack," Vance remarked. "It's exactly what the motive was, but clearly a very sick individual."
"Obviously, we saw what happened with the president a year and a half ago. Thank God he's okay," Vance said, linking the attack to violence against conservatives.
"We've seen a rise in left-wing violence, well documented," Jennings insisted.
"It is much more common on the left than it is the right," Vance agreed. "It's not just the people who commit the violence, Scott. I mean, look, for every person who throws a brick at an ICE agent or takes a shot at a conservative commentator, there's an entire network behind it."
"Who bought the brick? Who paid for it?" he continued. "Who are the networks, the violence that actually support this stuff, that foment this stuff? How do people get radicalized if not for the really crazy rhetoric we see it coming from some corners of the far left?"
Vance argued that there was a "network of left-wing violence," including in the killing of Charlie Kirk.
"It's not just the person who pulls the trigger," he said. "And, you know, one of the things we've tried to do in the administration, we have a very aggressive task force right now to try to root out this left-wing political violence, try to find out who's funding some of this crazy stuff, try to find out who's buying the bricks that these people are throwing at ICE agents."
"And I think that's going to bear some real fruit," he promised. "But I do think the American people should expect that their government is going to respond to this stuff."
