‘We would have had real civil strife’: JD Vance recalls 2024 attack on Trump

US Vice President JD Vance US Vice President JD Vance said in a podcast released Tuesday (local time) that he feared a “real civil strife” had a 2024 attempt on Donald Trump’s life been successful.Vance made the remarks during a conversation with Christian podcaster Bryce Crawford. During the conversation, he cited the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, during which a bullet whizzed past Trump’s ear before striking a supporter, who was killed. The gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot dead by Secret Service snipers.“We would have had real civil strife in a way that I don't know that the country could have ever come back from. There would have just been an illegitimacy to our entire political system,” the Associated Press quoted the vice president as saying.Vance further stated that, like many other Trump supporters, he too would have suspected a conspiracy had Crooks been successful.“I would have assumed very dark forces had taken out Donald Trump, right as he was about to come back into the White House. Many Trump supporters would have assumed a conspiracy had robbed them of their chosen president... I would have also had those thoughts 'in the back of...