Trump said he was “filled with grief and rage,” and vowed in a recorded speech to “find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity.”
Trump is tackling Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting
President Trump lamented the death of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University and condemned radical left-wing violence.
Calling assassinated conservative influencer Charlie Kirk “a martian of truth and freedom,” President Donald Trump attacked the “radical left” on September 10, stating that his intense rhetoric is “directly responsible for the terrorism we see in our country today.”
In a four-minute live address posted on his true social platform, Trump sits in an oval office – said he was “full of sadness and anger over Kirk’s vicious assassination” earlier in the day at a college campus in Utah.
For Trump, Kirk’s murder was personal. The young Firebrand, 31, is Trump’s solid political ally, who promoted his political comeback in January and helped him return to the White House. He made a red “Make America Great Again” on stage when he was shot once in the neck while talking to students as part of the “America Comeback Tour.”
He portrayed Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, an organization that promotes conservative politics on high school and university campuses.
Authorities are still looking for someone to take charge. FBI director Kash Patel said the person interested in X was in FBI custody but was later released.
“Charlie is a patriot and dedicated his life to the cause of public debate and the United States of America, where he loved so much,” Trump said. “He fought for freedom, democracy, justice, Americans. He is a martial artist of truth and freedom.”
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Trump then turned his rage to those who believe he is responsible, repeating his familiar reprimands that denounce liberals for violence against his Magazine supporters for their public criticism.
“It’s been a time since all Americans and the media are facing the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequences of demonizing people who oppose you every day, each year, in the most hateful and despicable ways possible,” Trump said.
The president did not broach conservative subjects, including Kirk, that he has often attacked Trump’s liberals and opponents in similar ways.
But he said, “For many years, radical left-wingers have compared great Americans like Charlie with Nazis to the worst mass murderers and criminals in the world. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism we see in our country today and we must stop it now.”
Trump cited him as evidence of his assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania in July 2024, his recent attack on ICE agents, the 2017 shooting of then-majority leader Steve Scalise, and “the malicious murder of medical enforcement agencies on the streets of New York.”
Trump vowed that his administration would “find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and other political violence.
“Charlie was America’s best, and the monsters that attacked him were attacking our entire country,” Trump said. “The assassin tried to silence him with a bullet, but he failed because together, ensuring that his voice, his message and his legacy will continue to live for countless generations to come.”
