On Saturday’s Good Morning America, ABC senior White House correspondent Selina Wang made the wild claim that President Trump is “blaming the left” for Charlie Kirk’s murder even though the motive is currently unknown. The previous evening, on World News Tonight, chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl tried to drive a wedge between Trump and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox over their responses to the crime, claiming the former was not heeding the latter’s pleas for the country to step back from the brink of political violence.
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The previous evening on WNT, Karl reported how Cox claimed Kirk’s murder made him madder than he’s ever been before, “But despite the anger, Governor Cox, a Republican, is pleading for calm, for dialing down the rage and the division. Pointing out that political violence has targeted Democrats as well as Republicans, saying the shooting in his state can be a turning point for America.”
He then played a clip of Cox, “We can return violence with violence. We can return hate with hate. And that's the problem with political violence is it metastasizes. Because we can always point the finger at the other side. And at some point, we have to find an off-ramp, or it's going to get much, much worse.”
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