This article, authored by Mariane Angela is republished under the Creative Commons “CC BY-NC-ND” license with permission from The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy tore into an ABC News reporter Tuesday for characterizing text messages between the suspect accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk and his romantic partner as “touching.”
ABC News reporter Matt Gutman described the messages exchanged between Kirk’s accused killer and the suspect’s transgender partner as “touching” during a segment Tuesday. Appearing on “The Ingraham Angle,” Kennedy mocked the description and questioned the reporter’s judgment.
“Some people need a shock collar. Touching? The guy just murdered another human being. And he’s talking about it to his love interest. It reminded me of something my dog would bring up,” Kennedy told host Laura Ingraham. “You know, I try to be tolerant of other points of view. I really do, but that wasn’t touching. And no fair-minded person can call it touching.”
Ingraham said the press has spent years vilifying President Donald Trump’s supporters while extending compassion to those accused of targeting them. Kennedy blamed both the media and social platforms for rewarding inflammatory rhetoric.
“Some of this is the fault of the media. A lot of it is the fault of social media. Let’s face it. Social media has lowered the cost of being an a-hole,” Kennedy said. “People do things on social media that they would never do to each other’s face. And it’s become just rage bait. I don’t have a solution to it yet. We can talk about that another time, but that’s a big part of the problem.”
Authorities reviewed messages that said Tyler Robinson admitted to killing Kirk and told his partner he planned to surrender. When the partner asked why he carried out the attack, Robinson replied that he “had enough of [Kirk’s] hatred” and claimed “some hate can’t be negotiated.”
Despite early efforts by public figures to portray Robinson as a conservative Christian due to his family ties, Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and investigators countered that narrative, revealing Robinson had embraced “deeply indoctrinated leftist ideology.”
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I have no doubt that ghoul was touching himself watching the assassination video.
No we have max bluementhal stating trumstein fears assassination by satanayue…. hahahahaha. The alternative media have gone into full coockooland now. Trumpstein is doing exactly what satan wants and if they do perform a fake assassination, it will be picked apart like every other one and im sure it will have loads of maths equations all adding up to 33 and 666 symbols. How can anyone take this hollywood production seriously anymore, i will never understand. Id say just get on with their wars to bring on the inevitable now, we all know if magic stuff starts appearing in the sky, the end is near. I wonder have they managed to put wheels on satans thrown yet to wheel him out or better still, just throw himself into the lava and save us all the bother. Its a bit like titanic now, we know the end. This is just laughable now at this stage.
I actually read 1 & 1/2 sentences of Tom’s drivel this time. lol
They are now killing-off normal people. Your life is now under threat. Carry… or perish.
Senators criticizing Patel’s past comments or recent firings and arrests must be working for the Trump team, knowingly or unknowingly.