The murder of the ultraconservative activist and organizer Charlie Kirk this Wednesday has shocked the United States, but the trauma and the lack of a stopped suspect have not avoided that the immediately triggered the political and ideological tensions and divisions. That fracture before the nth episode of political violence It has been evidenced from the Oval Office, where the president, Donald Trump, He has recorded a four -minute video shared in social networks where has linked the rhetoric of the “radical left” with the murder of his important ally and has also raised his threats.
“For years the Radical left has compared wonderful Americans like Charlie nazis and the worst criminals and mass murderers in the world. This type of rhetoric es directly responsible for terrorism that we are seeing in our country today and must be stopped immediately, ”said Trump, that just before he had declared:“ It is time for Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the Tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree Day after days, year after year, in the most hateful and despicable way. ”
No suspicious stopped
At the time to which the video was recorded and hung The author of the shots had not been arrested And there was no public public information about their identity or their possible motivation. That has not prevented Trump from doing a Speech of strong partisan content, where you have connected Kirk’s murder with Other elements of the political agenda that he has been applying in his second term.
“My administration will find all those who have contributed to this atrocity and another political violence, including organizations that finance it and support, as well as Those who chase our judges, agents of the law Anyone who makes order in our country, ”said the president. They are words that come according to Federal agents They have been intensifying the arrests for months Immigrants And when the president has already ordered to deploy Troops in Los Angeles and Washington DC. He has also suggested, for example, to stop and impute George Soros and his son for supposedly organizing manifestations.
Trump has mentioned several recent episodes of that political violence and has cited the frustrated attack against him Last year at a rally, “attacks against agents of Ice ” (the immigration police) or the Murder in New York of an insurer’s manager at the hands of Luigi Mangione. Has also included in its review a shooting in 2017 against Republican congressmen In a baseball match where the current number 2 of the conservatives in the lower house was injured.
The president He has not included in his review any case of political violence against Democratsnor recent as the attack in June In Minnesota where a congressman and wounded another or further, such as the attack in 2022 to the husband of the former president of the lower house Nancy Pelosi was killed. And what he has done is add a phrase to his list saying that “The violence of the radical left has damaged too many innocent and has charged too many lives. ”
“Dark moment for the US”
Trump declared himself “Full of grief and anger” and talked about a “dark moment for the US.” His speech did not allow much hope that this darkness will dissipate soon, or that tensions and divisions will relax in the next few days.
The president also extolled as “a martyr for truth and freedom”To Kirk, a good speaker praised for his ability to discuss but also controversial by Xenophobic, racist, homophobic and anti -Semitic statements. And the president urged Americans “to commit to the US values for whom Charlie Kirk lived and died: the values of freedom of expression, citizenship, rule of law, Patriotic devotion and love to God”.
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