Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary in Trump’s first term, weighed in on the assassination of Charlie Kirk during Mark Halperin’s ‘2Way’ program yesterday, saying that he is struggling with the fact that he is a Christian, but is also ‘pissed.’
Spicer compared the murder of Kirk to the attempted murder of Trump, suggesting that the people who are doing this are not just going after individuals, they are targeting the leaders of a movement.
Teri Christoph of RedState has transcribed some of Spicer’s comments:
SPICER: I am conflicted because I’m sad for Charlie and his family and what happened. But I’m pissed. As a Christian, I don’t know how to reconcile that sometimes.I’m tired of the left, the rhetoric. Charlie, what he symbolized was a movement. What he did in leading this movement, in putting himself out there can’t be overstated.This violence, in all of its forms, is wrong. But when you go after Donald Trump and try to kill him twice — they’re not just going after people who are activists, they’re going after leaders of movements and trying to stop them. Not just stop the people, but the movement. And that’s the big difference here. Violence and extremism and craziness is one thing, but when you’re trying to silence Trump and you’re trying to silence Charlie Kirk, you’re not just going after them personally, you’re going after the entire movement. And I don’t think people fully appreciate that.
At that point, Mark Halperin jumped in with a few comments about Kirk’s reach.
Real Clear Politics provides a transcript:
HALPERIN: I talked to more than a few Democrats yesterday who had heard of Charlie Kirk. They know who he is. They knew some of what he did, but two things struck me in every one of the conversations.They don’t appreciate how significant he was as a force for the movement, but they don’t appreciate the bond that people in MAGA have towards him, not just the president, whose bonds are quite substantial, but kids all over the country, some who have met him, some who hadn’t, some who are at MAGA, and some who are not. They do not understand how this young man was able to reach so many people in an emotional way. They’re acting like some Republican operative got killed, and we don’t know who did it, so how upset can we be?They do not understand, and that’s part of what I think they have to understand, because you don’t have it. You don’t have anybody like Charlie Kirk.
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