US killer now in police hands
From first news it sounds more like a lone gunman (with leftwing views) than a conspiracy. However the signs are that is not how the killing is going be treated.Revenge will be widespread. "President Donald Trump, following the death of GOP activist and close friend Charlie Kirk, vowed to unleash the weight of his administration onto those he said contributed to an environment of “radical left political violence.”How that might translate into policy has remained unclear, as the president and his aides have spent part of the last two days grieving while strategizing their next steps.Trump invoked Kirk’s memory to urge supporters to refrain from retaliatory violence. But he also indicated a desire to not just punish the killer, but also to tackle what the president and his staff described as a movement bent on the destruction of the American way of life.“The radicals on the left are the problem, and they’re vicious and they’re horrible and they’re politically savvy,” Trump said Friday morning on Fox News."White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called out “people in positions of institutional authority,” noting the social media posts of “educators, health care workers, therapists, government employees” who he said had cheered Kirk’s death.“There is an ideology that has steadily been growing in this country which hates everything that is good, righteous and beautiful and celebrates everything that is warped, twisted and depraved,” Miller wrote Thursday on X. “It is an ideology at war with family and nature. It is envious, malicious, and soulless.”""“We are working, we were actually already working, spurred as much by the Ukrainian woman who was killed on the train as by Charlie’s tragic passing, [on] a more comprehensive plan on violence in America, the importance of free speech and civil speech, the ways that you can address these, they can only be called hate groups, that may breed this kind of behavior,” White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told radio host Scott Jennings on his show Thursday.“So in the coming days, the president will be telling the American people about what we plan to do,” she continued. “It will not be easy. There’s layer upon layer upon layer, and some of this hate-filled rhetoric is multigenerational, but you’ve got to start somewhere.”Wiles stressed that the administration intends to protect free speech as it continues to develop its plans.Trump told reporters on the South Lawn on Thursday that he had “an indication” of the shooter’s motive and would say more later. He also called Kirk “an advocate of nonviolence” and said, “That’s the way I like to see people respond.”The previous day, Trump had said from the Oval Office that his administration “will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity, and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it.”In that speech, Trump blamed the “radical left” for rhetoric that he said was “directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.”A senior White House official declined to comment when asked to elaborate on what Trump meant when he promised to find those responsible for political violence."https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/11/trump-kirk-consequences-gop-conservative/So political assassination is not a great idea. As Gavrilo Princip surely found out.
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