"If the encouragement of political dissent is a part of Kirk's legacy, as his supporters have insisted, the actual practice of it isn't tolerated much at the moment. His podcast continued, on schedule, with a series of guest hosts. One was Vice-President J. D. Vance, who declared that national unity wasn't possible while people were "celebrating" Kirk's death. The available evidence suggests that Kirk's alleged killer, a twenty-two-year-old man from Utah without any clear political affiliation, acted alone."
""It made it through the editors, and, of course, liberal billionaires rewarded that attack," Vance said. By "attack," was he referring to the murder, or to the writer's withering appraisal of Kirk's positions? It scarcely mattered. The Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation, bêtes noires of the political right, were to blame. Miller, meanwhile, vowed that "we are going to channel all of the anger that we have over the organized campaign that led to this assassination to uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks.""
Conservative political figures swiftly shifted from eulogy to assigning blame after Charlie Kirk's murder. Vice-President J. D. Vance and Stephen Miller asserted that leftist organizations coordinated, financed, and encouraged violence, framing criticism as complicit in the killing. Public statements named foundations such as the Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation as responsible. Available evidence points to a twenty-two-year-old Utah man with no clear political affiliation acting alone. Podcast episodes continued with guest hosts while accusations of an organized leftist campaign circulated, and vows emerged to dismantle supposed networks alleged to have precipitated the assassination.
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