Update In Person Arrested In Vandalism Of Vance’s Home

By
Mark Stevens
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There’s never a good time for political violence. But the recent attack on Vice President JD Vance’s Cincinnati home isn’t just another security breach—it’s a glimpse into the increasingly unhinged landscape of ideological extremism that masquerades as activism. The suspect? A wealthy, well-educated individual from an affluent background who identifies as transgender and now faces multiple charges, including vandalism and trespassing.


Meet Julia DeFoor, formerly known as Davis, a 26-year-old from Cincinnati’s elite Hyde Park neighborhood, where million-dollar homes are the norm and privilege abounds. The DeFoor family, by all appearances, is a paragon of upper-middle-class respectability. The father is a pediatric urologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. The mother is a pediatrician in Kentucky. Registered Democrats, successful careers, high academic expectations—it’s the kind of household where rebellion isn’t expected to take the form of attempted property damage against the sitting Vice President.

But that’s exactly what happened.


Late Sunday night into Monday morning, DeFoor reportedly broke into JD Vance’s residence while he was away, damaging windows and sparking a swift response from the Secret Service. DeFoor was arrested and now faces four charges: obstructing official business, criminal damaging or endangering, criminal trespass, and vandalism. Fortunately, no one was harmed—but the message was clear: this wasn’t just a random act. It was targeted.

And let’s not ignore the uncomfortable truth that many in the media would rather avoid: the suspect identifies as transgender. But in report after report from mainstream outlets, DeFoor is referred to using male pronouns, either out of confusion, willful misrepresentation, or an attempt to avoid the awkward optics of what this case reveals.

Because the reality here disrupts too many protected narratives at once.

A transgender individual with deep privilege and elite education breaks into the home of a conservative Vice President—and instead of reckoning with the implications, the press either downplays or misrepresents basic facts. And no, this wasn’t someone from a marginalized, impoverished background lashing out from desperation. This was a National AP Scholar from a $27,000-a-year private Catholic high school, someone who played piano in school musicals and grew up in a million-dollar home with two physicians for parents.


This isn’t about denying anyone’s identity. But if mainstream outlets insist on rigidly enforcing “correct” pronoun usage in all other cases, why the sudden misgendering now? The double standard is glaring. When it fits the narrative, it’s bigotry not to use chosen names and pronouns. When it disrupts the narrative—when a trans-identifying individual is the aggressor, not the victim—standards become optional.

Meanwhile, Vice President Vance, a man whose populist, pro-family stances have drawn the ire of the radical fringe, just became the latest elected official to be physically targeted. And the ideological silence from the Left is deafening.


This wasn’t a protest. It wasn’t civil disobedience. It was a criminal act rooted in political hatred—another data point in the growing trend of rage-fueled activism where lines between dissent and destruction are deliberately blurred.

And unless we’re willing to confront the facts honestly and consistently—without filtering them through a partisan lens—we’re not addressing the problem. We’re just enabling it.

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