Video: Assassination of Charlie Kirk Sends Shock Waves Through Washington
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Thursday criticized Republican attacks on the left after the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, saying they were “full of s—.”
“You have people like Nancy Mace, who constantly harass, you know, people that she finds inferior and wants them not to exist in this country or ever,” Omar told left-wing pundit Mehdi Hasan in an interview on his Zeteo platform Thursday.
“And, you know, you have people like Trump, who has incited violence against people like me. And so, you know, these people are full of s—, and it's important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness,” she added.
Omar also said that the video and news of Kirk’s assassination were “really mortifying.”
“It was really mortifying to hear the news, to see the video. You know, all I could think about was his wife, his children, that image is going to live forever,” she told Hasan.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) decried Kirk’s death via a series of social media posts on Wednesday, placing blame on the left for a rise in political violence, despite statements from Democrats condemning the fatal shooting.
“If you have a different opinion from the left, they want to kill you. That is a fact, and that’s the way you all should report it,” Mace said previously.
On Wednesday night, President Trump said that he was “filled with grief and anger” at the fatal shooting of Kirk, and referred to Kirk as a “martyr for truth and freedom.”
The president, via a Wednesday night video posted online, also pledged to ““find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence.” He also blamed the “radical left” for the “rhetoric that is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today.”
The Hill has reached out to the White House and Mace’s office for comment.
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