Top headline: Associated Press
Middle headline: Public Notice
Bottom headline: Colorado Sun
Mike Litwin reports:
In my Sunday column, I wrote that I feared the worst about what would follow in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Turns out, I didn’t know the half of it.
I knew that Donald Trump and his MAGA pals would exploit Kirk’s death, reject any calls for national unity, make Kirk a martyr and blame the martyr’s death, in Trump’s words, on “the radical left” instead of on the person charged with the shooting — who seemed to believe that shooting someone for “hateful” rhetoric would somehow make the world better.
What I didn’t know was that JD Vance, Stephen Miller and the rest of the Trump team would go full McCarthy on us. On a Charlie Kirk podcast hosted by Vance, we heard from one MAGA operative after another. Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff who is often said to be the brains of the operation, said there was an “organized campaign” behind Kirk’s killing and vowed to crack down on what he called a “vast domestic terror movement” on the left.
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