A senior White House official is caught on tape accepting $50K in cash in a paper bag in exchange for steering contracts, and that person will go to work on Monday, and the entire GOP will be fine with it.
The President should have touched on consolation and unification, but instead he used this tragedy to assign blame on a partisan level. As we've seen with Melissa Hortman, Paul Pelossi, Josh Shapiro, Charlie Kirk, and Trump himself, violence is effecting both sides of the aisle.
Deeply disturbing rhetoric is spreading from influential MAGA figures (including the President of the United States and the owner of this website). They have no idea who the shooter is, and many of these same people mocked Democrats when they were victims of political violence in the past. In moments like this, we should be lowering the temperature and finding our shared humanity — not fueling more hatred and violence.
It was wrong for someone to attack Charlie Kirk.
It was wrong for someone to attack Paul Pelosi.
It was wrong for someone to attack Melissa Hortman.
Everyone in America should be able to speak freely without threat of violence.
We agree with Charlie Kirk on basically nothing.
Except that he deserves the right, as every human does, to speak freely without the threat of violence.
Beyond politics Charlie Kirk was someone’s father, husband and son. Remember that first, before engaging in whataboutism. His family will never be the same. Political violence has to stop by all sides.
I’m happy to see real leadership and measured rhetoric from elected politicians after a horrific murder like this.
Donald Trump posted a video making yet another Paul Pelosi joke on Truth just a couple days ago. The absolute worst possible leader one could imagine in this spot.
I disagreed with Charlie Kirk on nearly every political issue — but he was a child of God.
He was our sibling. Our brother. A human being endowed with infinite worth.
Political violence has no place in America.