A few minutes after the right wing activist Charlie Kirk’s deadly shooting Speaking at an event in Utah on Wednesday, Influencer Extremist communities illuminate social media by calling for violence against the left.
Kirk, co-founder of conservative youth group The turning point of the United Stateswas shot dead while asking a question at a TPUSA event held at Utah Valley University. Law enforcement officers said Wednesday afternoon that “interested persons” were detained, but the person was later released. The authorities have no motive yet.
Still, many far-right influencers and Republican officials immediately blamed the left for shooting. Among some extremist groups, members call for civil war and violent retribution. “It’s a war, it’s a war, it’s a war,” influencers and School shooting conspiracy theoristduring live broadcast on his Infowars channel.
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Guardians of Vows, was sentenced to an incitemental plot for President Donald Trump’s January 6 commute earlier this year, declared that it’s time to restart his militia group to provide public protection for figures like Kirk.
“I will rebuild the Guardians of the Vows and we will protect again,” Rhodes said. “If my security team attends that event, if they look for potential threats at the high point, they will save Charlie Kirk from being shot.”
Rhodes then called on Trump to “do the right thing, necessary” and “invoke the Revolt Act and after the shooting. “You should declare that the left in the country has a clear public insurgency to the U.S. law, they are insurgents, they are assisting and teaching to invade, and they blocked the enforcement of federal laws. ”
More mainstream right-wing commentators and lawmakers have joined in the hasty blame, blaming the left and calling for action.
Ed Martin, U.S. pardon attorney and former acting U.S. attorney Written on X: “Because it says, ‘Revenge is mine, I will repay it.
Elon Musk The so-called Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE),,,,, Posted: “The left is the murder party.” He then quoted an article that accused “the mainstream left-wing media and people like Gavin Newsom” to inspire people to oppose right-wing figures like Kirk. “To be precise,” Musk Write.
Katie Miller, who Work closely with Doge And the wife of Stephen Miller, vice president of Trump policy Written on X Even liberals condemn violence “with blood on their hands.”
“You might be next,” influencer and unofficial Trump adviser Laura Loomer Posted on X. “The left is a terrorist.”
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo Posts on x The “radical left” is responsible for the shooting and urges the U.S. government to “infiltrate, destroy, arrest and imprison all those responsible for this chaos.”
