Charlie Kirk’s atrocious murder is a direct and unequivocal consequence of the rhetoric borne out of hatred, cancel culture, and intolerance. I condemn this unthinkable and brutal act of hateful violence.
Words may have grave consequences, and unthoughtful support for hateful rhetoric may reverberate in unpredictable ways. Our numerous calls and warnings to some foreign officials to abstain from supporting violent language, ostensibly in the name of European Union, liberalism, and democracy, is directed towards forestalling such unpredictably tragic events in Georgia too.
I extend my heartfelt condolences to the American people, and to the family and loved ones of Charlie Kirk.