Charlie Kirk

“Charlie Kirk, who is a conservative commentator, he was tagged with do not amplify.”

“We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

“Eight days ago, Charlie Kirk was savagely murdered while doing what Americans love to do, debate.”

“And we have it in the killer's own words. I mean, the killer signed this very detailed confession. I should say texted it to his alleged roommate lover about why he did it.”

“And I think that was one of the things that Charlie exemplified better than anyone in this kind of modern media genre is showing people that you can have a discourse, you can have a debate, you can have a dialogue in the same way that as a group, we've had fig…”

“And I think actually this was an act of terrorism in the sense that it was designed to discourage other people from speaking out.”

“There was nothing I saw in there that could even come close to justifying anything that would be anywhere near violence.”

“I think it wasn't his controversy, it was his effectiveness. He was too smart, too open, too honest, too willing to engage in discourse, too willing to debate. He was too effective in changing people's minds, and I think that's why he became such a cultural th…”

“Listening to the mainstream media's mischaracterizations of him, which are attempts to either downplay or minimize or even to some degree justify what happened.”

“And he was very concerned about the rise of assassination culture. He wrote about this months before his death.”