Trump ally Charlie Kirk’s shooting death prompts all kinds of reactions
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot dead on Wednesday During an event at Utah Valley University.
Reactions to the shooting flocked leaders across the country, even President Donald Trump confirms the death of the co-founder of Turnage Point USA.
Asset announcement That Kirk died before any major media confirms the news.
“The great, and even legendary, Charlie Kirk, died. No one understood or had the hearts of young people in the United States of America than Charlie,” he wrote on social networks. “He was loved and admired by all, especially me, and now he is no longer with us. Melania and my sympathies go to her beautiful wife Erika, and to the family. Charlie, we love you! ”
“They have just shot Charlie Kirk,” said representative Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on X. “I pray for him to survive. And I pray for this country to get up and finish this. ”
Florida republican representative Anna Paulina Luna blamed people who called Maga politicians as her “fascists” for the shooting.
“You were too busy dopying children, cutting their genitals, encouraging racial violence by supporting the orgs that exploit minorities, the protection of criminals and moving hatred”, she Written on x. “Your words have caused this. Your hatred caused this. ”
The billionaire Elon Musk has also accumulated.
“The left is the murder party,” he posted on X.
Right -wing activist Laura Loomer added to fiery rhetoric, saying that “Each left organization” should be closed and prosecuted.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont wrote“Political violence has no place in this country. We have to condemn this horrible attack. My thoughts are with Charlie Kirk and his family. ”
Vice-president JD Vance published a photo Of him with Kirk and Donald Trump Jr., writing “Dear God, protect Charlie at his darkest time”.
Illinois governor JB Pritzker told journalists that he thought that political violence “accelerated”, as well as the accused rhetoric of Republican leaders like Trump.
“We do not yet know what motivated the person who killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of contemptible violence has no place in our democracy”, ” wrote Former Presidenr Barack Obama. “Michelle and I will pray for Charlie’s family this evening, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
The former member of the Florida Congress Matt Gaetz wrote“Pray for Charlie Kirk with everything I have.”
“The scourge of armed violence and political violence must end,” said representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said. “The shooting of Charlie Kirk is the last incident of this chaos and he must stop. We cannot follow this road. There is no room for this in America and we wish its recovery.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the attack On Kirk “disgusting, vile and reprehensible”.
Gabrielle Giffords, the former Arizona legislative who survived a mass shooting in 2011 during the meeting with the voters, said that she was “horrified” to hear about the shooting.
“Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts these disagreements with violence,” said Giffords wrote.
In 2023, Kirk said These deaths by weapons are an attractive price for the possession of firearms.
“You will never live in a society when you have armed citizenship and you will not have a single death of firearms. It is nonsense,” he told the crowd during another TPUSA event. “It is radiant. But I am – I think it is worth it. I think it is worth having a cost, unfortunately, of deaths by firearms each year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other rights given by God. It is a prudent case. It is rational.”
