Maggie Haberman Reveals ‘Primary Driver’ Of Trump Psyche In Wake Of Charlie Kirk Killing | EUROtoday

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Wednesday broke down why Charlie Kirk’s assassination is now taking on probably the most area in President Donald Trump’s White House. (Check out her feedback under.)

In an look on CNN’s “The Arena with Kasie Hunt,” Haberman instructed the host that “threats” on Trump’s life — and people round him — are on the prime of his thoughts, pointing to the 2 failed assassination makes an attempt in opposition to him final 12 months.

“It is really hard to overstate how shaken the White House and the president was and were by Charlie Kirk’s assassination,” she mentioned of Trump, whose administration requested a $58 million safety increase following the killing.

“A lot of people in the White House were very close to Charlie Kirk — or knew him or admired him — and President Trump was also close to him but also sees this in terms of the threats on his life. And so, I think that’s what you’re seeing is a primary driver [for the White House] right now.”

Haberman mentioned the administration’s Jeffrey Epstein saga would have taken up most of its headspace a few weeks in the past however Trump has since made it “very clear” that he’s participating in “crackdowns” in opposition to the left.

The president has pinned the blame for Kirk’s assassination on the “radical left” and cherry-picked episodes of political violence to make the case that the left is extra violent than the proper.

In his video message from the Oval Office on the killing, he referred to the assassination try in opposition to him in Butler, Pennsylvania, final 12 months in addition to assaults in opposition to federal immigration brokers, the UnitedHealthcare CEO taking pictures and the 2017 taking pictures that injured then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R).