Donald Trump wants to punish critics of Charlie Kirk

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Lerato Khumalo

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Trump wants to punish critics after Kirk’s murder


Updated on September 12, 2025 – 7:11 p.m.Reading time: 8 min.

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After the murder of Republican activist Charlie Kirk, US President Donald Trump announced that his friend critic critics. The president blamed “radical left political violence” for the attack, as the “Washington Post” reported.

Trump said his government would be held accountable by everyone who had contributed to this act or to comparable political acts of violence. “The radicals on the left are the problem, they are malignant and terrible and politically versed,” Trump told Fox news. At the same time, he called on his supporters to refrain from retaliation. The alleged perpetrator, a 22-year-old, was arrested on Friday.

The President’s advisor told the “Washington Post” that the government also wanted to act against people who cheered Kirk’s death or justified publicly. In addition, Trump announced that Kirk posthum is the highest civilian award in the United States, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The body of the right activist Charlie Kirk was transferred to his home state of Arizona on board the Air Force Two of the Vice President. In addition to Kirk’s wife Erika and his two children, Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha were also present. This reported several US media. Read more about this here.

After the fatal attack on the right-wing conservative US influencer Charlie Kirk, according to President Donald Trump, the investigators have taken the suspect. “I think we have him,” said Trump on Friday in a live broadcast by the US broadcaster Fox News. On Friday afternoon, Spencer Cox, the governor of Utah, confirmed: “We have him.” Read more about this here.

At a press conference in Utah, Governor Spencer Cox asked the public for help with the search for the man who is said to have shot the activist Charlie Fox. So far, 7,000 information has been received, but no trace of the alleged assassin. Read more about calling the US authorities here.

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