Trump, Kirk and Radical Right
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The killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk ignited a wave of fury on the far right, where some Trump supporters cast the murder as a political flashpoint and threat to conservative power amid a broader reckoning over rising violence.
The widespread and fast-moving campaign has already resulted in lost jobs, suspensions and internal investigations, heightening tensions online between supporters and detractors of Charlie Kirk.
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‘This Is War’: Trump and Others on Right Call for Crackdown on Left After Charlie Kirk’s Murder
As friends and political allies, including Donald Trump Jr. and Vice President J.D. Vance, mourn the death of Charlie Kirk, some on the right have jumped on the conservative activist’s assassination to call for a crackdown on the left.
Perhaps more than anyone else, Charlie Kirk, the prominent Donald Trump ally and political organizer who was shot and killed Wednesday, brought hard-right politics to a generation of younger Americans, expanding the reach of Trump’s politics largely through raucous, theatrical in-person debates designed to go viral online.
CBS' new owner, David Ellison, has taken concrete steps to address the concerns of the news division's sharpest critics — particularly President Trump and his allies.
U.S. right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk was credited with building President Donald Trump's base among younger voters, galvanizing conservative youth and rising to international prominence through a group he founded at age 18.
Political analyst Matthew Dowd has spoken out after he was fired from MSNBC due to his on-air comments relating to Charlie Kirk. In a Substack post, Dowd wrote that his words were “misconstrued” and that the news network “reacted” to “the Right Wing media mob.
Charlie Kirk is in critical condition after he was shot during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, Sept. 10
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon while speaking at a Utah college campus. Kirk, 31 and the co-founder of Turning Point USA, was struck by a gunshot to the neck, according to video footage from the event. A “person of interest” is in custody, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) said at a…
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Joe Concha says US will ‘go right back’ to same political discourse after Charlie Kirk’s death
The Washington Examiner‘s Joe Concha said Thursday that he doubts the political temperature in the United States will go down, arguing that it didn’t happen after President Donald Trump narrowly avoided assassination attempts last year.
“Weak,” “tepid,” “ineffective,” and “broken,” came up the most among Democrats and were used by Democrats to describe their party much more frequently than by Americans in general.