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The Atlantic : Trump’s Dangerous Response to the Charlie Kirk Assassination
The Atlantic ^ | 09/11/25 | Jonathan Chait

Posted on 09/11/2025 7:25:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Rather than condemning violence and calling for unity, the president of the United States accused his political opposition of being accessories to murder.

It is possible that, in the history of America’s radicalization spiral, the horrifying, cold-blooded assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk will be recorded as only the second-most-dangerous event of September 10, 2025. If so, the more significant development will instead have been the speech that evening by President Donald Trump. If you did not listen to Trump’s remarks, which have received only light attention from the media, you might have missed the chilling message they contained.

Trump may have sounded like he was deploring violence and calling for unity. In reality, he did the opposite.

The speech began and ended with encomiums to Kirk’s character and family, which is wholly appropriate. The important and dangerous passage came in a sequence of four sentences in the middle:

“For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.”

“My 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, as well as those who go after our judges, law-enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country. From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a health-care executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and three others, radical-left political violence has hurt ...”

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


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1 posted on 09/11/2025 7:25:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This is an double-ugly piece of verbal crap.


2 posted on 09/11/2025 7:28:09 PM PDT by econjack
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To: SeekAndFind

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem! Think real hard gentlemen…..


3 posted on 09/11/2025 7:28:21 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: SeekAndFind

Chait can pound sand . . .


4 posted on 09/11/2025 7:28:22 PM PDT by Charlemagne on the Fox
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess it might be dangerous if you are leftist scumbag.


5 posted on 09/11/2025 7:30:45 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sorry. We are not okayed the game anymore. When someone on our side does something violent, we all are labeled with it. Yet, as is more frequent by the day, your side does something violent, we are supposed to be “bi-partisan” and call for all sides to be peaceful.

The left feels power is their birthright. When they don’t have it, they espouse all means to obtain it, including violence.


6 posted on 09/11/2025 7:30:52 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: SeekAndFind

So POTUS Trump did something outrageous and the MSM ignored it. Thank God for The Atlantic!!


7 posted on 09/11/2025 7:31:32 PM PDT by Racketeer
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s pretty common for leftists to view the truth as dangerous. They will say the same thing about the FBI/CIA attacks on the President, and all the other crimes, frauds, and lies they are responsible for.


8 posted on 09/11/2025 7:32:13 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.”)
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To: SeekAndFind

Republicans murdered by democrat party foot soldiers. Republicans pounce.


9 posted on 09/11/2025 7:33:16 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Chait doesn’t need to worry about Trump. He needs to worry about us.


10 posted on 09/11/2025 7:33:46 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SeekAndFind

Max Waters is an accessory to murder…Obama too. Lock them up


11 posted on 09/11/2025 7:35:17 PM PDT by conservative_cyclist (Trump Fan from Day 1, Praying~keepT rump and America Safe)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dem radicals against Republican self-defense. They have no clue.


12 posted on 09/11/2025 7:35:31 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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Cold civil war will turn hot. You can’t have opposing views like this forever.


13 posted on 09/11/2025 7:35:41 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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the president of the United States CORRECTLY accused his political opposition of being accessories to murder.
14 posted on 09/11/2025 7:37:31 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: SeekAndFind

The assassination wasn’t dangerous?


15 posted on 09/11/2025 7:38:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Trump’s Dangerous Response to the Charlie Kirk Assassination


16 posted on 09/11/2025 7:39:22 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: SeekAndFind

What a way to deflect from the responsibility of the Left.


17 posted on 09/11/2025 7:39:51 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Atlantic can seriously pound it.

Its always the same form the libsoc left. They commit violence, then cry the attacked are saying bad things about the leftist attackers. Going after those who actually commit and actually encourage the violence, isn’t an over-reaction. The left calls for riots and closing freeways and looting shops. The right call for justice and going after the people who foster violence. And the left says the right is wrong to say and do it while excusing their own destruction crews.


18 posted on 09/11/2025 7:42:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: econjack
This is an double-ugly piece of verbal crap.

The Atlantic specializes in that.

They're not entirely wrong though. We are all done with the left and their psychotic behavior and Trump is on the same page with us.

19 posted on 09/11/2025 7:42:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Filthy crap.


20 posted on 09/11/2025 7:42:15 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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