Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass. , condemning Vice President JD Vance’s recent speech in Munich, claiming that his defense of freedom of speech is similar to the remarks of German dictator Adolf Hitler.
Vance attended the Munich security conference in Germany last week, and he criticized European allies for adoption The “Soviet” censorship method.
“The threat I worry most about Europe is not Russia, not China. It’s not other outside actors,” he said. “What I worry about is that the threat of European retreat is from some of its most basic values, values shared with the United States of America. Threat.”
While many praised Vance for attending the speech, showing American leadership and freedom’s defense, others denounced this as a bad look of American politicians on the world stage.
Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton condemned Vice President JD Vance’s speech, believing it embarrasses Americans.
When MSNBC host Ali Vitali asked what the room Vance gave the speech was like, Moldon claimed that the Americans were “totally embarrassed.”
“It’s one of the absolute shocks, absolutely shocks of our European allies, basically everyone in the audience. I think many of us Americans just feel completely embarrassed about democracy for our European allies.”
He went on to claim that the speech was hypocritical, saying: “He was talking about respecting the election results. He was talking about not imprisoning your political opponents. He talked about not censoring the media.”
“The problem is from a man who himself will not acknowledge the 2020 election results. It’s a day when Trump says he should imprison his opponents – sorry – on January 6, the committee member, his political opponents and this one The government simply drove the AP out of the Pentagon and reviewed dozens of words from government publications, putting Americans in the dark.
US Vice President JD Vance delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) held in Munich, Germany on February 14, 2025. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
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He went on to claim that out of hundreds, only about five people applauded.
“I think four of them are Chinese,” he said. “Only Chinese and Russians love to speak. The Russian Foreign Minister actually came out and praised the speech. That’s the only compliment you said to VP Vance.”
In the same interview, he claimed that Vance’s remarks were used to “justify the Holocaust” in Nazi Germany, and claimed that the right-wing German party he visited was a replacement for Germany and a neo-Nazi.
“He was talking about the enemy inside. It was a language that Hitler used to justify the Holocaust.” “After the speech, Vice President Vance went to the Nazi Party headquarters in Munich with the neo-Nazi in modern Germany The leaders of the party meet. So Munich’s badness against Munich may actually get worse. It’s a very, very, very, very dangerous management.
During the same visit to Germany, JD Vance Visited Dachao Concentration Camp, During World War II, the site of a powerful symbol of atrocities committed by Nazi Germany against Jews and other minorities.
“What happened here will never happen again,” Vance told a group of VIPs near the entrance to the camp.
After arriving in Bavaria, U.S. Vice President JD Vance visited the former Dachau concentration camp to commemorate the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, and liberated the camp on April 29, 1945 80th anniversary. (Peter Kneffel/Pictural Alliance via Get image photo)
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Caitlin McFall of Fox News contributed to the report.
