U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany’s free speech laws during an appearance at a conservative gathering outside Washington

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany’s free speech laws during an appearance at a conservative gathering outside Washington.

Concern is growing over the far-right Alternative for Germany party’s rise ahead of the German election. Its U.S. supporters include Elon Musk and JD Vance.

After the highly unusual U.S. interventions, the AfD remains in second place heading into Germany’s federal election on Sunday.

The journalist probed the vice president's decision to antagonize U.S. allies in Europe and meet the leader of Germany's far-right party.

Vice President JD Vance shocked leaders at the Munich Security Conference when he challenged Germany's decades-long approach to preventing political extremism and effectively boosted a far-right political party,

Vice President J.D. Vance on Monday called Germany’s free speech restrictions “Orwellian” and said that other European countries should join the U.S. in rejecting such laws.

JD Vance brought his lecturing of Germans into a second week Monday by slamming laws in the country meant to curb hate speech and the prosecutors who carry them out. The vice president claimed Germany is “criminalizing speech” and warned that its restrictions on citizens might put “real strain” on the U.

Then, in a speech in Munich last week, 10 days before Sunday’s vote, Vice President J.D. Vance attacked the so-called “firewall” Germany’s mainstream parties have maintained against the country’s far-right party,

From left, Activists wearing masks of AfD top candidate for Chancellor Alice Weidel, Elon Musk, US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Vice President JD Vance, protest

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and journalist Margaret Brennan exchanged a back and forth about Vice President J.D. Vance's speech in Munich where he criticized European countries for censorship of their citizens.

Robby Soave delivers radar on what he calls Germany's censorship regime that came to spotlight after Vice President JD Vance's speech in Munich. #Censorship #JDVance