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Politico - President Trump tells reporters "we just have to beat the hell" out of "radical left lunatics," following the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

Trump says ‘we have to beat the hell’ out of ‘radical left lunatics’ after Kirk killing
The conservative activist's killer remains at large and authorities have not said what the motive was behind his shooting.
www.politico.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM

Trump says ‘we have to beat the hell’ out of ‘radical left lunatics’ after Kirk killing

The conservative activist’s killer remains at large and authorities have not said what the motive was behind his shooting.


President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on the South Lawn as he departs the White House on Sept. 11, 2025. | Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

By BEN JOHANSEN
09/11/2025 07:46 PM EDT

President Donald Trump on Thursday told reporters that “we just have to beat the hell” out of “radical left lunatics,” following the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

The president, speaking on the South Lawn of the White House as he was heading to New York City, was responding to a reporter who asked what the president’s message was to conservatives who feel targeted by “radical groups.”

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In the wake of the shooting, Trump recorded an address from the Oval Office and distributed on social media, where he praised Kirk and also blamed the “radical left” for his death. He said that the “radical left” compared Kirk to “Nazi’s” and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals and blamed vitriolic rhetoric for the killing of the conservative activist.

“This type of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today,” the president said in the three-minute video.

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