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Following Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Donald Trump Jr. warned that political violence in America is coming exclusively from the far-left.
“When you look at the vilification of Charlie that I’m seeing every day since then, the celebration of his assassination in cold blood in front of his wife and young children. It’s truly disgusting,” he told anchor Martha MacCallum Friday on “The Story.” “What was Charlie’s real crime? He spoke truth. Every day, Martha, he platformed his biggest detractors. He gave the people who hated him the most an opportunity to argue their standpoint.”
Donald Trump Jr., who counted Kirk as a close friend, appeared visibly shaken on “The Story” as he reflected on Kirk’s legacy of activism and the aftermath of his killing.
“He was a threat [to the left] because he was incredibly effective in taking their narrative and destroying it,” he said, noting Kirk’s proficiency at speaking to advocate for God, family, country, the Constitution and keeping men out of women’s sports.
“These are not exactly radical concepts, although when the left realizes that they are losing arguments, they resort to this violence,” he said. “I see the constant ‘violence goes both ways,’ and it does not Martha — the violence is going one way — I have had to deal with, you know, three shootings like this to people who are really near and dear to me in the last 14 months and I’m getting sick of it.”
Trump addressed reports about engravings on cartridges believed to belong to the suspect, including a reference to the WWII-era anti-fascist song “Bella Ciao” and the taunt “Hey fascist! Catch!” He argued that when the far-left can’t win debates on ideas, it resorts to violence.
“Contrary to what we’re seeing elsewhere and online, it’s not going both ways,” he argued.
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