People have to recognize that there are “extremists” on both sides of the aisle, he said. “I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind extremist views,” he continued, adding that “when we have the weight of the United States government behind extremist views, we’ve got a problem.”

Asked about Obama’s remarks during a Fox News interview that aired Wednesday night, Vice President JD Vance said, “We’re not exploiting Charlie Kirk’s death to do anything except for achieve justice.”