WASHINGTON ― Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Wednesday baselessly blamed Democrats for the deadly capturing of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah occasion.
“Democrats own this,” Mace mentioned on Capitol Hill. “Democrats own this.”
HuffPost requested why, since nothing is understood in regards to the shooter or the shooter’s motives. Mace pointed to the rapid context of the capturing ― Kirk was speaking on a university campus about transgender mass shooters.
“I mean, give me a fucking break. This guy’s talking about mass trans violence, tranny violence — I’m not going to filter myself — and got shot in the neck like that,” Mace mentioned.
As of this writing, police say there isn’t a suspect in custody after the capturing, which passed off throughout an occasion at Utah Valley University in Orem. Kirk died shortly after the assault, his spokesperson confirmed.
Mace’s caustic remarks stood out Wednesday among the many statements from Republicans and Democrats alike praying for Kirk, condemning the capturing and condemning political violence generally.
“This political violence has got to stop now. They shot President Trump in the head. They tried to assassinate him a month after that. You had a Bernie Sanders bro shoot up the congressional baseball game. You had some wingnut kill some legislators over in Minnesota,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) advised HuffPost, referring to the capturing in June of two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) led lawmakers in a silent second of prayer for Kirk and his household on the House flooring on Wednesday. Afterward, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Col.) could possibly be heard saying, “Silent prayers get silent results,” resulting in a shouting match, with some Democrats reportedly yelling Kirk wasn’t the one capturing sufferer on Wednesday. Johnson repeatedly banged the gavel, calling for order.
“We need every political leader to decry the violence and to do it loudly,” Johnson advised reporters afterward. “The problem is in the human heart. It’s gotten out of hand.”
On the House steps, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) choked again tears about Kirk, saying he’d been an influential voice within the conservative motion.
“When I was in college, we used to be able to walk in those doors, just walk right into the Capitol, and didn’t have any of the security. Obviously, airports were the same,” Roy advised reporters. “And the more we just have this, like, sickness in society, the more we have to clamp down, the more you have to have, you know, security barriers and lock down our society, because people are just sick, and there’s obviously no place for it.”
Speaking to TV cameras outdoors the House, Mace mentioned she had condemned the firebombing of Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s dwelling.
“I’ve spoken out against violence of all kinds, when it’s been a Republican or Democrat alike, but what I don’t usually see is Democrats [speaking out] when something happens to us,” Mace mentioned. “They need to own the rhetoric. They need to own what’s happening in this country right now.”
Just about each distinguished member of the Democratic Party — together with former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the top of the Democratic National Committee and minority leaders within the House and Senate — condemned the Kirk capturing on Wednesday.
“I am shocked by the murder of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University,” House Democratic chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) mentioned. “Political violence of any kind and against any individual is unacceptable and completely incompatible with American values.”
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