Vice President JD Vance reiterated Donald Trump’s concerns about crime in Washington, D.C.—but may have insulted cabinet member Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the process.

Vance, on the heels of Trump’s latest argument for the federal takeover of the capital, said the district has “some of the worst homicide rates in the world.” The vice president attached a graphic appearing to show 2023’s statistics of 41 homicides for every 100,000 people.

“If this fact doesn’t anger you but President Trump’s efforts to fix it do, you might have a brain worm,” Vance added.

Kennedy, the Health and Human Services Secretary, said in a 2012 deposition that doctors had told him two years prior that a dark spot showing up on a brain scan was the result of a dead parasite, which had eaten a portion of his brain.

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