After Charlie Kirk’s killing, MAGA influencers call for violence
Within minutes of the news that right-wing youth activist Charlie Kirk had been shot on a college campus in Utah, the first accusations began to fly across MAGA social media: someone on the left must have been responsible for this.
Within hours of the confirmation of his death, rage began pouring out. “Congratulations. You have now made a radical out of me,” tweeted Ryan Fournier, a right-wing activist formerly associated with Kirk’s group, Turning Point USA. “You fuckers deserve it.”
Within minutes of reports that the FBI had apprehended a suspect, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh tweeted his desire for justice: “Thank God. Now punish him in t …
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