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President Donald Trump is rejecting strategies that right-wing extremism is an issue.
“Well, the issue is on the left,” Trump advised reporters outdoors Air Force One.
“The downside is on the left when you have a look at the issue — it’s not on the fitting like some folks prefer to say, on the fitting. The downside now we have is on the left. When you have a look at the agitators, you have a look at the scum that speaks so badly of our nation, the American flag burnings far and wide, that’s the left, that’s not the fitting.”
One reporter requested whether or not he deliberate to research.
“They’re already beneath investigation. They’re already beneath main investigation. Lots of the folks that you’d historically say are on the left.”
No matter how the query is framed, Trump sticks to his partisan evaluation, as he did on “Fox & Friends”: “Radicals on the left are the issue. and they’re vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They need males in girls’s sports activities, they need transgender for everybody, open borders.”
The distinction with Utah’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, couldn’t be starker.
People maintain candles and sing throughout a memorial and prayer vigil for Charlie Kirk on the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Cox, who made the Sunday present rounds, says the nation has to search out an off-ramp from the present surge in political violence within the wake of Charlie Kirk’s homicide. There must be a method to decrease the temperature, he mentioned.
Democrats from Barack Obama on down, to their credit score, are denouncing the assassination as unacceptable, even when they disagreed with some or all of what Kirk stood for.
What’s placing is the ripple impact on everybody else.
Newsday needed to apologize for an abominable cartoon.
The sketch confirmed an empty chair, with blood behind it, and the repeated phrase “Prove Me Wrong” — a frequent Kirk saying — with an arrow pointing to Turning Point USA.
FROM GRIEF TO GROWTH: TURNING POINT USA BECOMES A RALLYING FORCE FOR GEN Z IN BATTLEGROUND ARIZONA
The Long Island paper referred to as the cartoon “insensitive and offensive…We deeply remorse this error and sincerely apologize to the household of Charlie Kirk and to all,” saying it’s been deleted on-line. But how does one thing that unhealthy get accredited?
Fox News, citing 10 sources, mentioned the White House and Pam Bondi have misplaced confidence in Kash Patel. The FBI director stumbled in saying {that a} suspect was in custody, solely to see that individual launched because the unsuitable man. Patel says his tweet that the “topic” of the capturing was “in custody,” might have “been worded a bit higher.”
There have been warning indicators when Missouri’s legal professional normal was introduced in with the identical rank as Patel’s deputy, Dan Bongino, and Fox says he made clear he wouldn’t have left that job to function Patel’s quantity two.
Kari Lake, who runs the U.S. Agency for Global Media, mentioned at a vigil for Kirk that the faculty that the accused shooter attended for one semester had “brainwashed” him.
“I’m making a plea to moms,” mentioned Lake, who twice failed in bids for workplace in Arizona. “Do not ship your kids into these indoctrination camps.”
A memorial for Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk is seen at Utah Valley University, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, in Orem, Utah. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Lake added that her daughter didn’t go to varsity, as a substitute working for Kirk.
Four years in the past, the suspect went to Utah State University as a pre-engineering main.
And he was sufficiently, uh, brainwashed in 2021 that he determined to kill Kirk final week?
Look, finger-pointing politics has been happening for a really very long time. When President Clinton blamed Rush Limbaugh for the Oklahoma City bombing, I wrote the front-page story. When the New York Times blamed Sarah Palin for the wounding of Gabby Giffords (and the demise of six others) – due to a political map with crosshairs that the killer by no means noticed – a high editor advised me I used to be unsuitable however later admitted I’d been proper.
And when the man who badly wounded Steve Scalise at a Republican baseball follow was revealed to be an everyday Rachel Maddow watcher, liberals jumped on that one.
The reserving images for Tyler Robinson, 22, the suspect within the Utah assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. (Utah Gov. Spencer Cox)
So it’s with the 22-year-old Kirk homicide suspect and the pointless seek for motive.
Is it related that the alleged shooter resides with a transgender man who’s turning into a girl? Sure. But anybody who would plot to kill Charlie Kirk for political causes is by definition insane, as are all these nutjob faculty shooters.
It’s additionally true, by the best way, that the fixed assaults on the president — the survivor of two assassination makes an attempt — as Hitler and worse foster an environment during which one other assault is extra doubtless.
But wait, there’s a ultimate guilt-by-association maneuver happening.
We see it when Elon Musk instantly tweets “the left is the celebration of homicide.” We see it when Spencer Cox calls social media a “most cancers.”
The social media level might be true, however we will’t put that genie again within the lamp.
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By blaming “the left,” the X proprietor and others are depicting everybody who has liberal viewpoints as culpable, even when they by no means heard of Charlie Kirk, even when they’re shocked and appalled by his homicide.
And that’s simply, effectively, loopy.
