Vice President J.D. Vance on Tuesday reacted to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles calling him a "conspiracy theorist" in a recent Vanity Fair interview, addressing the label during an economic speech at Uline Inc.

Activists and commentators on the right are facing a reckoning over how to handle conspiracy theorists as podcaster Candace Owens and others purportedly digging into the assassination of Charlie Kirk have directed their fire at their friends and former colleagues at Turning Point USA.