Nicki Minaj calls JD Vance an ‘assassin’ towards Erica Kirke
Nicki Minaj called Vice President J.D. Vance an “assassin” while speaking to Erica Kirk at a Turning Point event.
Vice President J.D. Vance over the weekend slammed political activist Nick Fuentes for making derogatory comments about his wife, Usha Vance.
“Let me be clear: Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat my food,” Vance said in an interview published in the online magazine UnHerd. “That is my official policy as Vice President of the United States.”
Fuentes, who the Anti-Defamation League describes as a “white supremacist” whose “anti-Semitic commentary primarily focuses on themes of Jewish power and Holocaust denial,” used ethnic slurs against Usha Vance, an Indian American from a Hindu family, and called J.D. Vance a “racial traitor” in one of his livestreams.
USA TODAY has reached out to Vance and Fuentes for comment.
What did Jen Psaki say about Usha Vance?
Psaki, a former White House press secretary under President Joe Biden, suggested in October that second wives needed to be rescued from their husbands on the “I’ve Had It” podcast.
“I always wonder what’s going on in my wife’s mind,” said Psaki, who currently hosts a show on MSNOW. “Are you okay? Blink four times. Come here and we’ll save you.”
JD and Usha Vance married in 2014 and have three children. Before becoming second lady, Usha Vance was an attorney who clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and future Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when they were on the U.S. Court of Appeals.
“I think it’s disgusting.”
On Sunday, Dec. 21, the Vice President spoke at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona. The rally was the conservative group’s first annual summit since founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed in September.
“Anti-Semitism and all forms of ethnic hatred have no place in the conservative movement,” J.D. Vance told UnHerd. “I think it’s disgusting to attack someone because they’re white, because they’re black, because they’re Jewish.”
Natalie Neisa Alland is a senior reporter at USA TODAY. Contact her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her at X @nataliealund.
