Charlie Kirk assassination sparks partisan blame recreation in Washington

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President Donald Trump is rejecting options that right-wing extremism is an issue.

"Effectively, the issue is on the left," Trump instructed reporters exterior Air Power One.

"The issue is on the left for those who have a look at the issue — it’s not on the suitable like some individuals wish to say, on the suitable. The issue we've got is on the left. If you have a look at the agitators, you have a look at the scum that speaks so badly of our nation, the American flag burnings in every single place, that’s the left, that’s not the suitable."

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One reporter requested whether or not he deliberate to analyze.

"They’re already below investigation. They’re already below main investigation. Loads of the individuals that you'd historically say are on the left."

Regardless of how the query is framed, Trump sticks to his partisan evaluation, as he did on "Fox & Associates": "Radicals on the left are the issue. and they're vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They need males in ladies’s sports activities, they need transgender for everybody, open borders."

The distinction with Utah’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox , couldn't be starker.

Folks maintain candles and sing throughout a memorial and prayer vigil for Charlie Kirk on the John F. Kennedy Memorial Middle for the Performing Arts, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Cox, who made the Sunday present rounds, says the nation has to seek out an off-ramp from the present surge in political violence within the wake of Charlie Kirk’s homicide. There must be a method to decrease the temperature, he mentioned.

Democrats from Barack Obama on down, to their credit score, are denouncing the assassination as unacceptable, even when they disagreed with some or all of what Kirk stood for.

What’s placing is the ripple impact on everybody else.

Newsday needed to apologize for an abominable cartoon.

The sketch confirmed an empty chair, with blood behind it, and the repeated phrase "Show Me Fallacious" — a frequent Kirk saying — with an arrow pointing to Turning Point USA .

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The Lengthy Island paper referred to as the cartoon "insensitive and offensive…We deeply remorse this error and sincerely apologize to the household of Charlie Kirk and to all," saying it’s been deleted on-line. However how does one thing that unhealthy get authorised?

Fox Information, citing 10 sources, mentioned the White House and Pam Bondi have misplaced confidence in Kash Patel. The FBI director stumbled in asserting {that a} suspect was in custody, solely to see that particular person launched because the incorrect man. Patel says his tweet that the "topic" of the taking pictures was "in custody," may have "been worded a little bit higher."

There have been warning indicators when Missouri’s lawyer common was introduced in with the identical rank as Patel’s deputy, Dan Bongino , and Fox says he made clear he wouldn't have left that job to function Patel’s quantity two.

Kari Lake, who runs the U.S. Company for International Media, mentioned at a vigil for Kirk that the school that the accused shooter attended for one semester had "brainwashed" him.

"I'm making a plea to moms," mentioned Lake, who twice failed in bids for workplace in Arizona. "Don't ship your youngsters into these indoctrination camps."

A memorial for Turning Level USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk is seen at Utah Valley College, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, in Orem, Utah. (AP Photograph/Lindsey Wasson)

Lake added that her daughter didn’t go to school, as a substitute working for Kirk.

4 years in the past, the suspect went to Utah State University as a pre-engineering main.

And he was sufficiently, uh, brainwashed in 2021 that he determined to kill Kirk final week?

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Look, finger-pointing politics has been occurring for a really very long time. When President Clinton blamed Rush Limbaugh for the Oklahoma Metropolis bombing, I wrote the front-page story. When the New York Instances blamed Sarah Palin for the wounding of Gabby Giffords (and the dying of six others) – due to a political map with crosshairs that the killer by no means noticed – a high editor instructed me I used to be incorrect however later admitted I’d been proper.

And when the man who badly wounded Steve Scalise at a Republican baseball observe was revealed to be a daily Rachel Maddow watcher, liberals jumped on that one.

The reserving images for Tyler Robinson, 22, the suspect within the Utah assassination of Turning Level USA founder Charlie Kirk. (Utah Gov. Spencer Cox)

So it's with the 22-year-old Kirk homicide suspect and the pointless seek for motive.

Is it related that the alleged shooter resides with a transgender man who's turning into a girl? Certain. However anybody who would plot to kill Charlie Kirk for political causes is by definition insane, as are all these nutjob college shooters.

It’s additionally true, by the way in which, that the fixed assaults on the president — the survivor of two assassination makes an attempt — as Hitler and worse foster an environment during which one other assault is extra doubtless.

However wait, there’s a remaining guilt-by-association maneuver occurring.

We see it when Elon Musk instantly tweets "the left is the celebration of homicide." We see it when Spencer Cox calls social media a "most cancers."

The social media level might be true, however we are able to’t put that genie again within the lamp.

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By blaming "the left," the X proprietor and others are depicting everybody who has liberal viewpoints as culpable, even when they by no means heard of Charlie Kirk, even when they're shocked and appalled by his homicide.

And that’s simply, nicely, loopy.

Howard Kurtz is the host of FOX Information Channel's MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 AM-12PM/ET). Based mostly in Washington, D.C., he joined the community in 2013 and usually seems on Particular Report with Bret Baier and The Story with Martha MacCallum amongst different packages.