While speaking at a Turning Point USA event on Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance was heckled by a man who criticized U.S. military action in the Middle East.
The person disrupted the event, shouting that the United States is “committing genocide in Gaza” while the vice president responded to the pope’s condemnation of the Iran war.
In a brief aside from his main point, Vance pointed to U.S. humanitarian aid efforts in a rebuttal to the man’s claim that the Trump administration committed or supported a genocide in Gaza.
“When we came in, the humanitarian situation in Gaza was an absolute catastrophe. You know who’s the person who got a peace agreement in Gaza? Donald J. Trump,” he said to applause from the crowd in Athens, Georgia.
“So if you want, sir, to complain about what happened in Gaza, why don’t you complain about Joe Biden in the last administration? We’re the administration that solved that problem,” he said.
The heckler then yelled, “You’re killing children! You’re bombing children!”
The comment likely referred to the Iranian elementary school that was reportedly destroyed in a U.S. Tomahawk missile strike on Feb. 28. The airstrike killed approximately 170 people, most of whom were children.
“You see more humanitarian aid coming into Gaza than it has any time in the past five years because we have taken that situation seriously, and that’s one of the things I’m proud of about our administration,” Vance responded. “We have consistently tried as much as we can to solve these problems, not just complain about them, like the guy who just ran away.”
US AND IRAN FAIL TO STRIKE PEACE DEAL AFTER LENGTHY TALKS, VANCE SAYS
The TPUSA event came days after Vance led the failed U.S.-Iran peace talks in Pakistan. Despite no lasting resolution to the war, the two-week ceasefire remains in effect for now while Israel separately continues its barrage across Lebanon.
Erika Kirk, who assumed the mantle of TPUSA CEO after her husband was assassinated last fall, was not present at the Tuesday night event after event organizers said she received “very serious threats.”
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