Charlie Kirks Tötung hat Trump als der eigennützige Heuchler gezeigt, den er ist
Charlie Kirk’s killing has shown Trump up as the self-serving hypocrite he is
Charlie Kirks Tötung hat Trump als der eigennützige Heuchler gezeigt, den er ist
Charlie Kirk’s killing has shown Trump up as the self-serving hypocrite he is
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At 3.30am on 14 June this year, Mark Hortman – husband of Minnesota’s House Speaker Melissa Hortman – answered his door to a man dressed as a police officer. Moments later, both Hortmans and their beloved golden retriever Gilbert were dead.
Earlier in the night, another Democrat in the state, John Hoffman, had been shot nine times, and his wife, Yvette, eight – miraculously, though, both survived.
The man accused of all of the shootings, Vance Boelter, was found with a list of other prominent Democratic politicians alongside abortion advocates. It was a senseless and horrifying act of political violence that shocked the state – but the national reaction was muted. [Donald Trump ](https://inews.co.uk/topic/donald-trump?ico=in-line_link)did not even call Minnesota’s Governor [Tim Walz](https://inews.co.uk/topic/tim-walz?srsltid=AfmBOorjlXs6QNtLJwCK8VDxY8caxyK2u6AIlDYb-H7EiUkqgJ6ePt1d&ico=in-line_link), who himself appeared on Boelter’s list. “I could be nice and call him,” Trump said, “but why waste time?”
On Wednesday, there was a similarly senseless killing of an American political figure: conservative firebrand and [Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/who-was-charlie-kirk-trump-american-right-3912141?srsltid=AfmBOopdALphLYx8QCISF5QHJvlNt-H3jkspEOk1EMZWEo38BHu57dyj&ico=in-line_link), who was shot and killed aged just 31, while on-stage at a campus event in Utah, engaging in a political debate.
Trump’s [reaction to this killing](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/death-charlie-kirk-opening-act-american-disaster-3912864?ico=in-line_link), though, has been very different. Within hours, he had announced that flags on federal buildings across America would be at half-mast until Sunday. On Wednesday evening, Trump declared Kirk “a martyr for truth and freedom” and blamed “radical left political violence” for his death.
The response makes explicit what was previously just below the surface in America. There is now a double standard for political violence, where violence against Republicans simply matters more to the President than attacks against anyone else.
That facial droop though.
Why is it foreign press, the only press to actually call trump out on his nonsense?
Yeah, but so has literally every goddamn other thing Donald Trump has done too. So it’s not like there’s anything new here.
“Chicago will find out the meaning of WAR!!”, “the left needs to tone it down a bit on the violence…”
He just looks ridiculous in this picture. Half his face is paralyzed while he gives his draft-dodging salute to somebody he can’t even remember.
Ah, yes this is the thing.
Not the literally 10 years of his political life, and the 50 years before that.
Yes, this is the singular event that exposed his entire, totally secret unknown to anyone, life of public hypocrisy and self serving.
Fucken wake up lol.
I’m pretty sure we all knew about his self-serving hypocrisy long ago, friend.
Maybe like, „Charlie Kirk’s killing has, once again, shown Trump to be the same old self-serving hypocrite he’s always been. Nothing to see here.“
The people who didn’t know this already still won’t believe it.
I’m fine just reading the headline this time.
Didn’t need Kirk’s death to know that…
https://www.tiktok.com/@karressmarie4/video/7548934680406396173?_r=1&_t=ZN-8zfEWUmE114
Hmmm… Is this the same guy?
Why is *any* media platform still behaving as if this is even in question? He is brazenly, openly, *proudly* a lying, cheating hypocrite.
And that’s being generous. He can fairly be described as far more evil, malicious, cold, spiteful, and oh yeah, a child rapist. Where are the Epstein files?
it was always well established
How is this our reality? trump posthumously awards a podcaster who was out to make a buck the Medal of Freedom while actual U.S. soldiers who fought and were captured, like John McCain, are labeled “losers” in his mind.
„Charlie Kirk’s killing has shown Trump up as the self-serving hypocrite he is“
True, I suppose, but only if the context is that you ignored the last ten years of examples of him being a self-serving hypocrite.
Is the man saluting in this picture having a stroke?
Has Further shown. There I fixed the header.
Charlie Kirk personified today’s conservative movement. Centering around hateful, divisive and provocative dog whistle calls to violence against those who hold a more inclusive alternative. He would deny it, as he danced between the lines of his own hateful rhetoric, knowing how his words would be received by the hateful Trump base. Btw, they have the shooter in custody as of now.
Oh, so that wasn’t supposed to be evident beforehand? Man, I always only see the worst in people.
This is why it’s not okay to talk nicely about Kirk the piece of shit he was, spit on a Nazi’s grave. Do not let the Media try and humanize him. He doesn’t deserve an inch.
Add it to the pile of other examples of him being a self-serving hypocrite.
It’s just past the pile of things he „can’t do“ but before you get to the pile of „that’s unconstitutional“.
If you hit the pile of „but that’s illegal“ you’ve gone too far.
No, I think it’s the other way around. It was all the self-serving hypocrisy he’s exhibited since the 1980s that made it easy to predict how he would react to this „photo opportunity.“
Everything Trump does shows he is a self-serving hypocrite. What a fucking pointless article, any audience who would accept this already knows!
This, plus literally the whole rest of his adult life.
Oh wow, we had no idea until now
I believe Katie Johnson
Stripping out all the rhetoric and politics and everything else: Why TF are Federal resources and public honor guards being utilized to transport a wealthy private citizen?
All of the GOP and MAGA are fucking hypocrites.
Did we not have enough evidence to that fact before?
Release the Epstein files.
And he has still nit released the Epstein files.
Again.
Add it to the pile.
There is as much evidence for this as for the General Theory of Relativity. Probably more.
We don’t really need further evidence to be quite confident in this understanding.
But Kirk was killed by a vaxxed Venezuelan trans activist who supports libraries.
Yes. This is indeed the event that has shown the world that Trump is a self-serving, hypocritical piece of shit. /s
If I rolled my eyes any faster, they’d bust out of my skull.
You don’t say?
… Had you not picked up on that previously?
Mother fucker bragged on 9/11 that he now.had the tallest building in New York, which, for the record, was also a lie.
The fact that he’s a self serving jackass IS NOT NEWS.
Finally/s
Everything he does cements him as the self-serving hypocrite he is. Self-serving is his whole fucking thing.
Well that is certainly eye-opening. I had no idea!
They have sympathy for neo nzis but none for children of the same fate.
Says a lot. The GOP loves their rhetoric until the leopards come out.