Here in DC, the Trump administration rails against the radical left while others call for calm The sound in a newsroom changes from a low, busy hum to a loud, intense clamour when big stories break. On Wednesday afternoon, when the first indications that Charlie Kirk had been shot while addressing a student gathering in Utah started pinging online, that volume switch was flicked.
Erika Kirk is using her husband's death to promote Kirk's vehicle of hate, Turning Points USA, Ali, a podcaster and former New York Times contributing op-ed writer, posted to X on Friday. Fascinating to watch this right now. Erika Kirk is using her husband's death to promote Kirk's vehicle of hate, Turning Points USA. Fascinating to watch this right now. Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) September 13, 2025
Why am I treating the assassination of Charlie Kirk different than other crimes? And why was I wearing black to mourn Charlie the night he died? First, I treat it differently because it is. Charlie was murdered. That is a first for us. No member of the media has been killed in my lifetime for their beliefs in America by another American, Cuomo said.
BILL MAHER: Yesterday the president weighed in on this. He said Violence and murder are tragic consequences of demonizing those you disagree with day after day, year after year. And that goes double for dogs fat pigs and terrible persons!. Today, they asked the president, what are you going to do to bring the country together? And he said, I know this is going to get me in trouble, but I could care less..
Video was easy to find on X, on Facebook, on TikTok, on Instagram, on YouTube - even on President Donald Trump's Truth Social. The platforms, generally, said they were removing at least some of the videos if they violated their policies, for instance if the person was glorifying the killing in any way. In other cases, warning screens were applied to caution people they were about to see graphic content.
You missed the fact that Kirk was the Pied Piper of the conservative movement. He took to Twitter and college campuses during the Trump campaign and created an incredible movement within the Republican Party. He was instrumental in helping Donald Trump get re-elected. Additionally, there was no mention of his Christian faith and how he has led many youth to Jesus Christ and changed their lives for the better. Of course, those facts don't fit your left-leaning narrative. His legacy will live on.
Kirk has been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech. And I always go back to hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions, Dowd continued. You can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have, and then saying these awful words, and then not expect awful actions to take place. And that's the unfortunate environment we are in.
Netanyahu called Kirk an extraordinary friend of Israel, continuing his sentiment from a Wednesday tweet in which he referred to the commentator as a lion-hearted friend of Israel who fought the lies and stood tall for Judeo-Christian civilization. Charlie Kirk was murdered for speaking truth and defending freedom. A lion-hearted friend of Israel, he fought the lies and stood tall for Judeo-Christian civilization. I spoke to him only two weeks ago and invited him to Israel. Sadly, that visit will not take place.
Fuzzy video footage of Charlie Kirk's alleged killer racing across a rooftop at Utah Valley University, dropping to the ground and sprinting away in the moments following the conservative activist's death on Wednesday, was taken from so far away that it could not possibly have revealed his identity. You started off with a clip that made him look like an ant, Donald Trump told Fox News in a Friday morning interview
Flags will remain at half-staff throughout Massachusetts and across the U.S. this weekend in memory of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk. Gov. Maura Healey has ordered that American flags and Massachusetts flags at all state buildings be lowered to half-staff until sunset on Sept. 14, in accordance with a proclamation from President Donald Trump. The order applies to town and city halls, state-owned or state-controlled buildings, and state military installations.
It's time for the Trump administration to shut down, defund & prosecute every single leftist organization, Loomer wrote on X after Kirk was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. We must shut these lunatic leftists down. Once and for all. The left is a national security threat. The staunch Trump supporter on Thursday also described having stayed up all night and pledged to expose anyone online whom she perceived to mock Kirk or celebrate the rightwing activist's murder.
The enemy thinks that he won, that there was a battle won today, No, man, there's going to be millions of bold voices raised up out of the sacrifice and martyrdom of Charlie Kirk.
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In a memo to employees following the dismissal of MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd, three Comcast and Versant executives called Kirk's death a "tragic loss," writing that "his words and actions underscore the urgency to maintain a respectful exchange of ideas - a principle we must champion." The memo was written by Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, Comcast president Mike Cavanagh, and Mark Lazarus, the prospective CEO of Versant, the spin-off company housing cable channels like MSNBC.