"Donald Trump on Friday advocated for the death penalty in the killing of his close associate Charlie Kirk, as the widow of the rightwing activist spoke publicly for the first time since the shooting. The president told Fox & Friends in an interview during which he also announced that a suspect was in custody that he hopes the shooter gets the death penalty."
"He added: Charlie Kirk was the finest person. He didn't deserve this. On Friday night, Kirk's widow, Erika, gave a combative speech from the office where her late husband hosted his podcast, telling the evildoers responsible for my husband's assassination that You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife. The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry."
"In an interview on Fox & Friends on Friday morning, the US president was asked what he intended to do to heal the wounds of Kirk's shooting in Utah. How do we fix this country? How do we come back together? he was asked by the show's co-host Ainsley Earhardt, who commented that there were radicals operating on the left and right of US politics."
"Trump replied: I tell you something that is going to get me in trouble, but I couldn't care less. He went on: The radicals on the right are radical because they don't want to see crime The radicals on the left are the problem and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in women's sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders. The worst thing that happened to this country."
Donald Trump advocated for the death penalty in response to the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk and said he hopes the shooter receives that sentence. A suspect was reported to be in custody. Kirk's widow, Erika, delivered a forceful speech from the office where her husband hosted his podcast and warned those responsible that they had ignited a powerful response. Trump, interviewed on Fox & Friends, blamed radicals on the left as the primary problem and listed policy grievances, declining to call for national unity in the wake of the killing.
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