President Donald Trump wants the world to understand that Charlie Kirk’s killing will not temper him or induce him to mend the country’s divides.
Kirk’s memorial service in Arizona on Sunday was a remarkable hourslong eulogy for a life cruelly ended much too young, a glimpse at the future of the MAGA movement, and an unabashed religious revival.
It provided a moment that the country will long remember — an astonishing speech in which the assassinated 31-year-old’s widow forgave his killer.
But Trump bluntly and deliberately signaled that forgiveness and unity were for others, and that he’d use Kirk’s assassination to intensify his efforts to impose personal power even more ruthlessly.
He therefore confirmed that the immediate political consequence of Kirk’s shocking assassination will be more political discord.
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