Selective Outrage and Political Spin: The Charlie Kirk Fallout

There seems to be an ironic discordance among folks who, let’s just say, don’t share recently assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s point of view. They claim that “it’s time to move on” from talking about Kirk and his assassin and those on the Left who celebrated his murder.

Such was the case of the U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who, when asked why he didn’t attend a congressional vigil for Kirk, quipped, “I had a meeting.”

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Or look at combative positions taken by people like Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Don Scott, a Democrat, who responded to Gov. Glenn Youngkin when Youngkin echoed a question we asked on these pages: Is Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger going to denounce the “Nazi” comment that one of her vocal supporters, Chesterfield County School Board Member “Dot” Heffron, made about Kirk?

Scott’s social media response has since been edited, but the original still exists and reads: “Spare us the sanctimonious selective outrage—you should be ashamed of yourself. You said nothing when a sitting GOP member of the Va House of Delegates said ‘Democrats killed [Charlie] Kirk’—a blatant lie that was never corrected, even after learning a Trump supporter actually killed him. Thank God this governor and his hateful politics will be gone in 120 days.”

The edited version now calls the alleged assassin “a man from a family of Trump supporters” instead of “a Trump supporter.”

The House member Scott was accusing of saying “Democrats killed [Charlie] Kirk” was Del. Nick Freitas, who actually posted, “The other side murdered him.” Freitas joins The Daily Signal to tell us more about this story and what needs to happen next.

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