Trump vows to punish critics after slaying of Charlie Kirk [View all]
Source: Washington Post
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.
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