In June 2025, Democratic elected official Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, along with their dog, were assassinated by a Trump supporter
Trump did not lower the flags to half-mast
He did not attend their funeral
President Biden, on the other hand, knelt before their coffins
Charlie Kirk was a very evil man. He spent most of his career dividing this country with race baiting rhetoric, defending pedophiles, and advocating for genoicde.
I will be honest and say it’s hard to find sympathy for a person who didn’t even see me as human.
I don’t think murder is ever the right course of action though. I will not miss Charlie Kirk, but I don’t think he deserved to die.
Hopefully this country will one day come together instead of feeding into the division most political commentators and figureheads spew out.
Me: "Donald Trump ran for president in 2016 and said people with guns should maybe take care of Hillary Clinton to protect the 2nd Amendment. He ran for president in 2020, lost the election, and then incited a violent insurrection at the Capitol where his supporters tried to hang his vice-president. In 2024 he ran for president, he referred to his opponents as 'vermin' and the 'enemy within' and said he would send the military after them... Donald Trump has set the tone here."
BBC host: "That is the right. But what about the left?"
Me: "Which left? I saw Barack Obama, Joe Biden... all the leading Democrats came out and condemned this and said we need to tone this down."
From my appearance on @BBCNewsnight
From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!)
Receipts:
https://t.co/YbS3A8fz5p
charlie kirk opposed the civil rights act, called george floyd a scumbag, said he’d be worried abt black pilots & that he’d force his daughter to carry a pregnancy to term if she was raped.
he shouldn’t have been killed but he def was an extremist.
There was literally a Democratic lawmaker shot and killed with her husband by a Trump supporter 12 weeks ago. Please stop erasing her and please stop making lazy partisan political points on a day like today - especially from across the pond.
this is all but a fraction of charlie kirk’s honest perspective. he was quite proud of his positions, he defended them voiciferously. not sure why you’d find them distasteful to mention?
Powerful, touching, and classy from Mamdani, who Kirk hated and made Islamophobic remarks about. The gun violence epidemic must stop, must be stopped. Too much human suffering and grief, including for Kirk’s widow, as Mamdani points out.
Mamdani on Charlie Kirk murder:
“Yet another victim of gun violence in a nation where what should be a rarity has turned into a plague.
“It cannot be a q of political agreement or alignment that allows us to mourn. It must be the shared notion of humanity that binds us all.”
Horrific news out of Utah. I hope Kirk and anyone else affected are okay. Political violence, and gun violence, is never acceptable, excusable, or justifiable. https://t.co/WE4ngRbSq4
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