https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/obama-charlie-kirk-political-violence
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Thursday, September 18, 2025
Obama says Trump deepened US divide in rush to ‘identify enemy’ after Charlie Kirk shooting | Barack Obama | The Guardian
Ex-president says US in ‘dangerous moment’, after White House response to killings of Kirk and Melissa Hortman
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Trump says he is ‘not familiar’ with Democrat’s assassination
The exchange began when the reporter asked about the tributes paid by the White House to Kirk, the founder of the conservative youth activist group Turning Point USA and a close ally of the president and his family.
"Do you think it would have been fitting to lower the flags to half-staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota house speaker, was gunned down by an assassin as well?" asked Nancy Cordes, the chief White House correspondent for CBS News.
"I'm not familiar. The who?" Trump replied, leaning in across the Resolute Desk.
"The Minnesota house speaker, a Democrat, who was assassinated this summer," she said.
"Oh," Trump replied. "Well, if the governor had asked me to do that, I would have done that."…
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Monday, June 23, 2025
Opinion | The Problem of the Christian Assassin - The New York Times
"...In other words, Boelter wasn't just a political assassin; he was a Christian assassin — and a person deeply connected to one of America's most radical religious movements.
Christ for the Nations isn't a staid, traditional seminary. It opened its doors in 1970. One of its founders was an extremist Pentecostal pastor named James Gordon Lindsay, who was part of a spiritual movement called the New Order of the Latter Rain. (Christ for the Nations has put out a strong statement condemning the attack.)…"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/opinion/minnesota-killings-boelter.html
Monday, June 16, 2025
Minnesota shootings set off five-alarm fire in Congress
Lawmakers "are scared," the senior Democrat said, and want "addresses hidden and security updates. They won't be silenced."
A second House Democrat said there is "heavy demand" for members to have their own personal security details.
A House Republican told Axios they responded to the news by immediately raising the issue of members' security with House leadership.…
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/14/minnesota-melissa-hortman-john-hoffman-congress
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