Elon Musk agrees with JD Vance on the 'big lie the Democrats told about violent crime'

Business tycoon Elon Musk agreed with Vice President JD Vance who wrote that the bulk "of violent crime is committed by a very small group of people and we should be throwing them in prison."

Left: Elon Musk arrives for US President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025; Right: Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025 (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images; Right: Annabelle Gordon/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Yes," he commented when sharing Vance's post. "What it comes down to is this: Do you have more sympathy for those highly likely to commit murder or more for those at risk of being murdered? If the former, you are a disgusting human being and yet so many on the radical left choose this!"

Republican Rep. Beth Van Duyne of Texas also shared Vance's post.

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Elon Musk attends the NCAA Division 1 Wrestling Championship finals on March 22, 2025, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pa. (Terence Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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"A second conviction for aggravated violent crime should get life imprisonment," he wrote on X.

Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.

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