Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk on Thursday noted how common political assassinations of American figures had become during the 20th century while going on to predict that the left-wing mainstream media — and especially hosts on MSNBC — would justify an attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life.
“Gerald Ford was shot at in Downtown San Francisco. Ronald Reagan was shot as president of the United States, Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed, JFK was shot and killed, Malcolm X was shot and killed, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed,” he said during a segment of his daily radio show and podcast.
“If you look at American history, it is filled with presidents, presidential candidates, and political leaders that have been taken out,” Kirk added. “As soon as the violence against Trump happens, they will justify it. Of course, they will.”
“If Donald Trump is taken out, God forbid, MSNBC will say, ‘Well you know, you act like Hitler, don’t be surprised if somebody…’ That’s what they will do, 100 percent,” he predicted. “‘The man who sowed hate reaped what he deserved,’ is what they’re going to say, ‘F around and find out,'” he noted further.
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Kirk’s comments come on the heels of a ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court to boot Trump off the 2024 ballot citing the “insurrection” clause of the 14th Amendment, a decision that was roundly criticized by many legal experts and scholars.
“I think the Supreme Court is going to take this case, and I think the [U.S.] Supreme Court is going to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court,” CNN’s legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig said during a show segment on Wednesday.
“I halfway agree with [co-guest Robert Ray]; I halfway disagree with Bob,” Honig began. “I disagree with him on whether the term ‘an officer of the United States’ includes the president. There’s sort of linguistic exercises you can do either way, but I think it’s worth noting all seven justices didn’t have a problem with all officers of the United States, including the president.
“And also just logically, if you’re gonna have a provision in the Constitution that says anyone who engages in insurrection can’t serve for future office, it would be bizarre if the highest office was exempt from that,” Honig continued.
He added, however, “I do agree with Bob that we have a serious due process problem here because the 14th Amendment itself says that Congress — in Section 5 — Congress has to pass laws that tell us how this works, who gets to decide who engaged in insurrection. Is it a court? Is it Congress? Is it a jury? Is it a judge?”
“The only law that’s still on the books, as Bob said, that Congress has ever passed is the criminal law, criminalizing insurrection, which specifically says if a person is charged and convicted with this, he’s disqualified. That has not happened here,” he noted further.
Concluding, he said: “Instead, Colorado tried to sort of take this state-level proceeding that’s not really made for this type of insurrection determination and force a square peg into a round hole, and I think that violates Donald Trump’s due process rights, and I think the U.S. Supreme Court’s gonna reverse because of that.”
