Charlie Kirk murder latest case of political violence
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Leaders in both parties react to Charlie Kirk’s slaying with fear and foreboding about the country’s direction.
In a Washington still reeling from the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk, Republicans and Democrats are deeply splintered and fearful that violent threats to political figures will be a regular feature of the country’s bleak new normal.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk has united the parties in a sense of dread that the country has arrived at a dangerous place. How it got here, however, remains very much in dispute. President
Trump’s suggestion that domestic violence amounts to a ‘little fight with the wife’ has alarmed advocates while the administration guts federal funding for support groups
While President Donald Trump touted the success of his crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., on Monday, he suggested that he believed that the "lesser" crime of domestic violence should not be counted in crime statistics.
The president’s goal is to claim that he’s completely eliminated crime in Washington, D.C. That led him to express irritation about domestic violence.