The White House has lowered the American flag to half -mast. This lingers in this way until sunset on Sunday, September 14, as a sign of mourning for the murder of Charlie Kirk in Utah Wednesday. The 31-year-old Radical-Rechts-Conservative Activist played an important role in the MAGA movement, regularly visited President Donald Trump and was good friends with his son, Donald Trump Jr.
The emotions about the murder are high in the United States. Trump burned the fire even further with a four -minute video On Truth Social In which he blamed ‘radical left’ for the ‘dark period’ in which the US, according to him, will go. “Radical left has been great people like Charlie for years compared to Nazis, mass killers and criminals,” the president said. “That kind of rhetoric is immediately responsible for the terror we see here now.”
In the House of Representatives, a moment of silence ran through speaker Mike Johnson, out arguing between Republicans and Democratswhen Republican Lauren Boebert noted that “silent prayers lead to silent results.” Democrats ran back that murder parties in American schools ‘unnoticed’ pass, after which a republican shouted: “This is all your fault!” Johnson needed several blows with his hammer to return the peace.
War rhetoric
On the right-wing conservation TV channel Fox News, the conservative political commentator Jesse Waters already spoke of ‘war’ and a ‘tipping point’, after he had made a selective list of violent acts against right-wing political figures. “She have started a war against us, “he said, without specifying who he means.” We keep a close eye on what she Now say on television: the politicians, the media and all those rats out there. This should never happen again. It ends now. This is a tipping point and we all know which way it is going. “
The radical-right conspiracy thinker Laura Loomer, just like Kirk, an influential figure within the Maga movement, speaks of X of a “very radicalizing week”. She also has a message for the left: the time of talking is over. “You ended it. ” Steve Bannon, former top adviser of Trump, called Kirk a “war victim” and Elon Musk wrote that the left is “the murder”.
Responses from Democrats
The murder also responded from Democratic Hoek. Coryfee Nancy Pelosi, whose husband himself became a target of political violence in 2022, calls “the terrible shooting” in Utah “reprehensible.” Gabrielle Giffords wrote to be ‘shocked’ on social media. “Democracies will always exist disagreements, but we should never allow the US to become a country that answers those differences with violence.” In 2011, Giffords barely survived an attack on her life in a shopping center in Arizona, where she was in the house of delegates. Since then she has taken on firearm violence.
Former president Joe Biden says he and his wife pray for Kirks family and loved ones. Barack Obama says that there is no place in the US for “this kind of despicable violence” and the democratic leader of the House of Representatives Hakeem Jeffries writes on X that “political violence is never acceptable”. Gavin Newsom, the democratic governor of California and one of Trumps most important challengers, calls the attack on Kirk “disgusting, mean and reprehensible.”