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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAccording to NBC Trump said that Charlie Kirk
Was an advocate of nonviolence. Does that need fact checking?
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According to NBC Trump said that Charlie Kirk (Original Post)
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Ocelot II
(127,044 posts)1. If Trump said the sun rises in the east, even that would need fact-checking.
Nothing he says can be believed without fact-checking.
usonian
(20,313 posts)2. Depends (pun unintended) on how you define violence, of course.

Must be OK in schools?
Grammy23
(6,041 posts)3. tRump probably never read or listened to
A single thing that Kirk ever said. Being informed is just not his thing. 🙄
regnaD kciN
(27,252 posts)4. I'm sure he was...
in the sense of everyone else just has to accept our rule peacefully.
OTOH, when Paul Pelosi was attacked and nearly killed, Kirk called for patriots to bail his assailant out. So, I guess attacking an elderly man with a hammer still qualifies as nonviolence
usonian
(20,313 posts)5. There was no violence of this sort on all his tours of California. Bluest of blue states.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220632018
Such would have been the false flag of all false flags.
This was just a gang war hit, apparently.
And the suspect so lily-white that his lies are easily shown up.
If nonviolent means "he didn't kill anyone", sure, but words kill, eventually.
Stochastic terrorism. Someone else does the killing for you.
Such would have been the false flag of all false flags.
This was just a gang war hit, apparently.
And the suspect so lily-white that his lies are easily shown up.
If nonviolent means "he didn't kill anyone", sure, but words kill, eventually.
Stochastic terrorism. Someone else does the killing for you.
Johonny
(24,582 posts)6. Kirk also said, the ballroom was looking great
Did I mention the ballroom. 150 years we've been waiting for a big beautiful ballroom.
eShirl
(19,564 posts)7. In the same sense that Jan. 6 was a day of love.
struggle4progress
(124,444 posts)8. Kirk sent busloads to Trump's 6 January convention of thugs