Charlie Kirk's assassination is the result of a decade of anti-Trump rhetoric from the left
By: Michael Goodwin
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A predictable reaction to the horrible murder of Charlie Kirk among legacy media outlets has been to condemn the ugly tenor of America's political debate and call for a timeout.
On its face, the plea sounds reasonable enough, but it rests on the false idea of both-sidesism, as if left and right are equally to blame for the frightening rise of political violence.
Count that as another Big Media lie and a repugnant effort to obscure the actual source and motivation of the assassination scourge.
There are not two sides contributing to the horror and equally responsible for it. The single truth is that we are witnessing the inevitable result of a decade of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Kirk's death is another piece of poisoned fruit growing out of the far left's hysteria and its fetish-like obsession about killing the president.
The cancer declaring that Trump was fair game appeared in 2015, soon after he entered the presidential sweepstakes. And it has never stopped spreading, even during the four years when he was out of office.
Now it has clearly metastasized to where Trump is not the only target and words are not the only weapons.
The accused killer of Kirk, Tyler Robinson, was "deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology," according to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox.
Robinson, a stellar student in high school, dropped out of college after just one semester, and seems to have gotten drunk on the social media Kool-Aid about the evils of Trump, Kirk and everyone who subscribes to any conservative principles.
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The penchant for calling Trump the devil incarnate has put a target on his back and given would be assassins a license to kill him and others in his circle.
Even among otherwise intelligent and decent people, the president is often declared to be the second coming of Hitler, a fascist, an authoritarian, a despot and a power-mad dictator.
These are among the vile words Democrats and their media running dogs, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, vomit out around the clock.
Their hyper caricatures of the man and fanciful distortions of his motives have helped to turn political disagreement into a license to kill.
Recall how from the start of Trump's first term, celebrities and so-called comedians openly fantasized about beheading him, with Madonna saying publicly that she dreamed of bombing the White House.
A cultural taboo on even joking about presidential assassination had been in place ever since the horrors of Dallas in 1963, but it was all cast aside because Trump was so far beyond he pale that he is seen as not deserving of even a minimum of respect or protection. Every day is open season on him.
Here's the latest on the Charlie Kirk shooting in Utah
- Police identified Tyler Robinson, 22, as the alleged assassin who fatally shot Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
- Robinson is expected to be charged with aggravated murder, among other state charges, according to a probable cause affidavit released on Sept. 12.
- Law enforcement confirmed that Robinson was living with a transgender roommate, and communications between the two helping the feds catch the alleged assassin.
- Kirk, the 31-year-old Turning Point USA creator, was attending an event on his American Comeback Tour when he was fatally shot in the neck by a single shot.
- President Trump was among many who have called for the assassin to receive the death penalty.
- Kirk's body was brought to Arizona from Utah on Air Force Two, accompanied by Vice President JD Vance, and taken to Phoenix's Hansen Mortuary Chapel.
- Kirk's funeral, which President Trump has promised to attend, is scheduled for Sept. 21 at State Farm Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals.
- Kirk, a rising MAGA star, is survived by his wife and two young children.
His greatest offense, of course, was winning the presidency in 2016, despite the best efforts of Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, Big Media and Deep State saboteurs from the CIA and FBI who tried to stop him with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
Even the weaponization of law enforcement and the later use of federal and state courts didn't succeed in sidelining him.
A political death cult, not unlike Murder Inc., swung into action against anyone and anything associated with Trump, especially as he closed in on a second term.
Charlie Kirk is a victim of that sickening campaign. Only an evil sect could see such a kind, religious man and doting father as a worthy target for slaughter.
The celebrations and approval online and elsewhere for the soul-shattering murder are the equivalent of sewage coming to the surface.
Supposedly reputable people, including medical and education professionals, along with some government officials, are giving their assent to public butchery because of policy disagreements.
Such bile is defensible only if you believe murder is politics by another name.
It is also alarming that the alleged actions of Tyler Robinson bear a terrifying similarity to those of Thomas Matthew Crooks, who tried and nearly succeeded in killing Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., last year.
An innocent audience member, firefighter Corey Comperatore, was killed and two others were wounded before Crooks was killed by the Secret Service.
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Despite clear evidence from photographs and doctors' reports that Trump was wounded in his right ear, some in the media and others on the left tried to argue the claim was false.
One thing that wasn't false was that President Joe Biden, after turning in a disastrous debate performance weeks earlier, had told an interviewer that "It's time to put Trump in the bull's-eye. We can't go another day, another day, without explaining what he's doing, and we have to go after him."
I don't know if Biden really wanted Trump killed, but his careless use of the word "bull's-eye" reflected how the unspoken rules against appearing to condone violence didn't apply when it came to Trump.
After the Butler attempt, Biden apologized for using the word "bull's-eye," calling it a "mistake."
There's also a striking overlap in the Kirk slaughter to another alleged triggerman, Luigi Mangione, a leftist charged with executing health care executive Brian Thompson on a Midtown Manhattan street last December.
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And it is highly unlikely that it is mere coincidence that Robinson and Mangione reportedly used their shell casings to express leftist messages of grievance toward their victims, as if to justify their heinous actions.
Authorities say Mangione wrote "deny," "defend" and "depose" on his casings, words used in a book sharply critical of the insurance industry.
Robinson is said to have inscribed "fascist! CATCH!" followed by a series of arrows on one bullet casing found at his shooting perch in Utah.
Authorities say another declared, "If you read This, you are GAY Lmao" and on a third, he wrote "O Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Ciao, ciao!" a lyric from an antifascist World War II song.
It's also worth noting that the Kirk murder took place during the Florida trial of Ryan Wesley Routh, the man charged with plotting to assassinate Trump on a Florida golf course a year ago.
Routh, representing himself, used part of his opening defense last week to cite political violence in other countries, and mentioned Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and, of course, Hitler.
A federal prosecutor, John Shipley, put the case in more basic terms by telling the judge and jury that Routh "wanted to make sure that the people of this country could not could not elect Donald Trump as president of the United States."
Shipley added: "So the defendant decided to take the choice away from American voters."
That line neatly sums up the war against Trump and the evil mindset behind the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Voters can't be trusted, so a leftist with a gun will make the decision.
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Anything that is all consuming and festers like a boil may very well lead to violence eventually. We have had many folks state that having Trump as president will eventually lead to violence like it would be a normal and acceptable thing. It seems if they couldn't get to Trump the next best thing would be to go after people that helped him win. Then they say "he didn't deserve to be shot but................
Or... they celebrate it
Mostly all lies.
Its interesting that this article about the country's ugly politics DOES NOT EVEN MENTION OR REFER TO JAN6th.
In itself, that omission makes this article laughable. The right wants to memory hole the traitorous behavior of many on the right as related to the 2020 election, and in their minds they have achieved that goal because American media have allowed them to.
Right wing media, assisted by the mainstream media has "normalized" Trump, the most obviously subnormal national office holder in at least the last 100 years.
The second Trump came down that escalator in 2015 he was already the most unfit and unqualified presidential candidate in history. The most notable thing he had ever done in politics was slander a sitting president.
No one cares
So he wasn't a politician?....
Huh..
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If you want to discuss the political nature of Trumps lies about Obama's birth, we can do that.
Right, cause democrats would never do something like that...
And what does that have to do with the topic of the seed? Or are you just trolling to derail it?
They didn't buy into the fabricated outrage from the left and democrats like this claim:
The reaction of many progressives to the Trump shooting was bad, but I guess since he survived it didn't really set in what that portended.
Their reaction to the murder of a conservative pundit really drives how home how deep the sickness is.
Why doesnt this article mention Trump trying to overthrow our government in 2020?
The Trump derangement syndrome that actually exists is in the people that have spent the last 10 years in a cult that worships a mentally unbalanced lunatic.
Does Trump opposing the certification of the election in 2020 (like some Democrats did in 2000, 2004 and 2016) in any way justify the murder of Charlie Kirk?
Trump not only approved a plan to have the vice president unilaterally declare him the winner on Jan6th, he reaffirmed that approval in his speech on the ellipse that morning. While the "riot" was going on Trump was making phone calls to congresspeople begging them to follow the plan.
When you say the Democrats did "the same" did the candidates go on tv the night of the election and say it was being stolen from them. Did any of them say mail trucks containing votes for them were found abandoned in wooded area and ditches? Did any of them say that the voting machines were rigged from another country ? Did any of them ask a state official to find just enough votes to make them the winner. Did any of them ask tens of thousands of people to come to Congress on the day of the certification with the promise that it will be wild? Did any of them tell insurrectionists that he loved them and they should "remember this day forever"?
The idea that Trump did no more than Democrats did is ludicrous, and an insult to the intelligence of anyone who knows what happened.
But it is par for the course for how people like you try to frame these things.
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Because the author did not think it was relevant to his story. You do realize not every article has to include Trump don't you?
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All these things were proven by the Jan6th committee, mainly by the testimony of republicans who served in the Trump white house.
Democrats have spent 20 years claiming elections were rigged, asking for international observers to make sure they were "fair" and lionized election deniers like Stacy Abrams, who continues to be rewarded for her lies with millions of dollars in grants to NGOs.
The idea that Trump did no more than Democrats did is ludicrous, and an insult to the intelligence of anyone who knows what happened.
what's ludicrous is watching Democrats who spent two decades claiming elections were stolen, or constituted a "coup" act outraged when Trump built upon all the work they did. Your argument is "it's okay we lied about stolen elections for 20 years, we only wanted to keep our base enraged and only performatively took steps to overthrow the government"
It's the same thing time after, unhinged rage when Trump plays the game the way Democrats do.
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So Trump tried to overturn an election using a legal argument premised on a faulty interpretation of the VP's powers and that somehow makes it okay to shoot Kirk? Explain how those dots connect.
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No one cares anymore
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More likely Charlie was killed because Trump liked him.
Except partisans...
Tyler Robinson’s family has offered a nuanced and somewhat conflicted portrait of him in the wake of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Here's what’s emerged from interviews and official statements:
There is more to Tyler than his social media
Again, those on the right don't care. They're foaming at the mouth with righteous indignation on this one and they will have their pound of flesh even if they have to lie, cheat and steal to get it. They want desperately to believe this kid was a Democrat so that it can justify their itchy trigger fingers. They've been waiting for an excuse for a while, some on the right even tried to start a civil war during the George Floyd protests, that's how far they will go to feel justified in shooting at those they have labeled their enemies. Sure, those being labeled enemies are just fellow Americans who did nothing but refuse to follow the goosestepping fascists down their diarrhea slip-'n-slide of Trump love, but that's more than enough for most fascists in the past to justify their desired violent purges.
So obviously you must agree if there was any damning information about Trump regarding Epstein the Biden DOJ or left wing media would have publicized it immediately and not attempt to make a big deal about it 6 years after Epstein's death.
Absolutely
More than just a little hyperbole.
Where is any evidence he is a leftist? The fact that he killed Charlie Kirk is not evidence. The fact that he wrote fascist on a bullet is not evidence.
We don't know anything for sure yet but if you want some stuff that may point in that direction read 4.2.1
Evidence is not evidence!
that’s some argument you’ve got.
'Leftist' is not whatever you want it to be.
Interesting, what is a leftist in your opinion?
Zero hyperbole.
There is evidence galore and back that can't be refuted that Robinson was a radical leftist.
Denial doesn't alter the truth.
Patel Reveals Shocking Note Left by Kirk’s Assassin, Debunks Claims He Wasn’t Driven by Leftist Ideology – RedState
When the leader of the party has TDS and calls for an execution the violence will begin. They missed on Trump twice and went for Charlie because he was an easier target. This is TDS at its finest.
"Willfully obtuse"....
Nonsense. This all predates Trump by years.