Source: Common Dreams
by Steven Harper
“In the final minutes of FBI Director Kash Patel’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 16, Sen. Thom Tillis [R-NC] acknowledged the obvious: Individuals on the left should not have celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but influential voices on the right were inflaming the situation. The bottom line, Tillis observed, was that escalation of the rhetoric on the right was making the FBI’s job of law enforcement more difficult. Sen. Tillis’s analysis would have come as a shock to President Donald Trump, who blamed the episode on ‘the radical left.’ Speaking Wednesday night from the Oval office only hours after Kirk’s death on September 10—before the identity or motives of the assassin were known — he issued a video message from the Oval Office.” (09/21/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/aftermath-charlie-kirk-assassination