"Within minutes of the news that right-wing youth activist Charlie Kirk had been shot on a college campus in Utah, the first accusations began to fly across MAGA social media: someone on the left must have been responsible for this. Within hours of the confirmation of his death, rage began pouring out. "Congratulations. You have now made a radical out of me," tweeted Ryan Fournier, a right-wing activist formerly associated with Kirk's group, Turning Point USA. "You fuckers deserve it.""
"Within minutes of reports that the FBI had apprehended a suspect, The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh tweeted his desire for justice: "Thank God. Now punish him in the most severe possible way." And within an hour of FBI Director Kash Patel admitting they'd released the suspect and that the killer was still at large - and thus, no motive was known - the right's anger toward the left did not relent."
MAGA supporters reacted to the shooting of right-wing youth activist Charlie Kirk with immediate accusations blaming the left and demands for vengeance. Prominent conservative figures posted violent and retributive messages online, including tweets declaring radicalization and calls to punish the perpetrator severely. Initial reports of an apprehended suspect briefly surfaced, but FBI Director Kash Patel said a released suspect was not the killer and the actual shooter remained at large. The lack of a known motive did not calm online anger, and calls for retribution persisted across right-wing social media.
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