Trump is now calling for nonviolence. How long before he changes his tune?

[newdeal2]

Or he knows more about the suspect than we do and he wants to get ahead of it since it contradicts what they’ve been saying all day.

asked Trump: “How do you want your supporters to respond to this? Charlie Kirk was a big advocate of nonviolence and free speech on campus. How do you want your supporters to respond, sir?”

The president echoed the reporter’s words, saying: “I think that way. He was. He was an advocate of nonviolence. That’s the way I’d like to see people respond.”

The White House quickly posted the exchange on social media, perhaps hoping to tamp down anger that has already spilled into violence, with the beating of a critic of Kirk in Boise, Idaho, during a vigil on Wednesday night.

Charlie Kirk shooting latest: Trump encourages nonviolent response as search continues for shooting suspect

[AZJonnie]

1. To be fair, he has not specifically encouraged his supporters to engage in violence

Probably because he wants that privilege for The State (i.e. himself and his federal goon squad). Also most violence is the purview of local/state authorities, over which he has a lot less power in many states. He doesn't want his followers arrested and in jail, after all they can't vote GOP, adore him at his rallies, nor waste their money on his grifting schemes if they're in the pokey!

[newdeal2]

2. Generous of you

He seemed quite keen to stoke the fires yesterday and his allies spread that message all morning today calling for violence against the left.

[AZJonnie]

3. I didn't mean to be lol

I'm meaning that HE wants to be the one who orders the cracking of skulls directly, by leveraging the power of his position. He gets a bigger rush from that. And he didn't backtrack on that idea.

But I damn sure hope you're right he's softening his rhetoric because it's dawning on him (or he knows outright) that the shooter is not who he portrayed him as.