From the moment conservative icon Charlie Kirk was felled by an assassin’s bullet, partisans have fought over who’s to blame for his death.

Political violence is hardly unprecedented in the United States. In fact, the country has “a long, dark history” of violence that has “struck the highest level of American politics,” said Kevin Boyle, a Northwestern University historian.

President Trump has promised to bring the killer to justice while using the moment to blame the left — and only the left — more broadly.

Many right-wing activists and pundits and Republican officials, from the president on down, responded to Kirk’s killing with recklessly irresponsible rhetoric.

Donald Trump's political organization entered July with nearly $102 million in cash reserves -- an unprecedented war chest at this stage in the election cycle for a former president, according to new figures. Trump's fundraising haul speaks to his ...

The group will advocate for the election of judges in Jefferson County that it believes will enforce the law and ensure offenders face real consequences.

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Trump called Kirk a " martyr for truth and freedom " and condemned the "demonizing" of political opponents in the U.S., even as he said that the rhetoric of the "radical left" was responsible for Kirk's death.