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Former President Barack Obama took a vile shot at President Trump and his administration during his first public remarks on the Charlie Kirk assassination.
As CBS News reported, Obama appeared at the Jefferson Educational Society in Erie, PA, on Tuesday for a “conversation” with broadcaster Steve Scully. During the discussion, Obama weighed in with his thoughts on the horrific murder of Kirk.
He told Scully that Kirk’s assassination was a “threat to all of us” and “a tragedy.”
“When it happens to somebody, even if you think they’re quote unquote ‘on the other side of the argument,’ that’s a threat to all of us, and we have to be clear and forthright and condemn it,” Obama said.
“Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific and a tragedy,” he added.
Then, Obama attacked Trump for his supposed “extreme views” and for putting the full weight of the government behind these views. At the same time, he played the innocent victim.
“But I’ll say this — those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind them,” he asserted, in remarks obtained by the Erie Times-News.
“When we have the weight of the United States government behind extremist views, we’ve got a problem.”
In other words, Obama appears to be partially blaming Trump for creating the atmosphere that contributed to Kirk’s murder. Just when you thought he could not get more shameless.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Obama raised eyebrows last week after posting a tweet responding to the Kirk assassination.
“We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy,” Obama wrote on X.
“Michelle and I will pray for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children,” he added.
The first part of his post, “We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk,” sparked massive social media backlash.
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