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Trump on divisions inside the US: “I could not care much less”
Ed Pilkington
Donald Trump has declined to name for the US to return collectively as a approach of fixing the nation’s divisions within the wake of the assassination of his shut affiliate, the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, preferring to forged “vicious and horrible” radicals on the left of US politics as the only drawback.
In an interview on Fox & Pals on Friday morning, the US president was requested what he supposed to do to heal the injuries of Kirk’s capturing in Utah. “How will we repair this nation? How will we come again collectively?” he was requested by the present’s co-host Ainsley Earhardt, who commented that there have been radicals working on the left and proper of US politics.
Lower than 48 hours after Kirk was shot in broad daylight on the campus of Utah Valley College, Trump replied: “I inform you one thing that’s going to get me in bother, however I couldn’t care much less.”
He went on: “The radicals on the correct are radical as a result of they don’t wish to see crime … The radicals on the left are the issue – and they’re vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They need males in girls’s sports activities, they need transgender for everybody, they need open borders. The worst factor that occurred to this nation.”
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Charlie Kirk’s widow says his campus tour will proceed regardless of his loss of life
Johana Bhuiyan
Erika Kirk, the widow of proper wing activist and provocateur Charlie Kirk, stated in a press release Friday night that her late husband’s message and mission shall be “stronger, bolder, louder and better than ever” and that her “cries will echo around the globe like a battle cry”.
“I liked understanding certainly one of his mottoes was ‘by no means give up’,” she stated of her late husband. “We’ll by no means give up.”
Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of the hard-right youth group Turning Level USA, died after being fatally shot whereas talking at an occasion hosted at Utah Valley College (UVU) on Wednesday afternoon. The occasion was the primary within the group’s fall tour of school campuses. Erika Kirk stated that the campus tour will proceed regardless of her husband’s premature loss of life.
“In a world full of chaos, doubt and uncertainty, my husband’s voice will stay and it’ll ring out louder and extra clearly than ever and his knowledge will endure,” she stated.
Erika Kirk, talking from her husband’s Turning Level USA workplace on Friday night, stated Charlie had been killed as a result of “he preached a message of patriotism, religion and of God’s merciful love”.
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FBI’s Kash Patel underneath scrutiny over dealing with of Charlie Kirk killing
Kash Patel speaks at a information convention, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, in Orem, Utah, as Utah division of public security commissioner Beau Mason, left, and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox hear. (AP Photograph/Lindsey Wasson) {Photograph}: Lindsey Wasson/AP
Throughout a information convention on Friday morning in Utah, FBI Director Kash Patel lauded the work of the FBI main the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s killing, whereas additionally twice saying the choice to launch images and movies to the general public, which led to the arrest of suspect Tyler Robinson on Thursday night, had been made at his course.
Nonetheless, Patel has come underneath hearth over his dealing with of probably the most high-profile second of his tenure thus far. Some FBI staff instructed CNN they discovered it galling for Patel to assert private credit score for probably the most profitable components of the investigation.
Within the early hours after the capturing, Patel had prematurely indicated on X {that a} suspected shooter was in custody, earlier than it later turned out the killer was nonetheless at giant.
Lower than two hours later after his preliminary submit, Patel wrote a notice saying the particular person had been launched – a transparent sign that regulation enforcement had not apprehended the proper particular person.
The next day, in a gathering reported by The New York Instances, Patel fumed to subordinates over failure to provide him well timed info, together with images of the suspect, the now-arrested Robinson. Patel reportedly went on a profanity-laced tirade, telling brokers he wouldn’t tolerate “Mickey Mouse operations.”
Patel personally knew Kirk and gave a tribute to the Turning Level USA founder on Friday.
“To my pal Charlie Kirk: Relaxation now, brother. We now have the watch, and I’ll see you in Valhalla,” Patel stated, making a reference to the corridor of slain warriors from Norse mythology.
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Opening Abstract
About 50 faculty campuses throughout the US have been deluged in current weeks with hoax calls about armed gunmen and different violence, AP reported on Saturday. College students at some faculties spent hours hiding underneath desks, solely to search out out later the menace had been fabricated. On Thursday, a number of traditionally Black faculties locked down or canceled courses after receiving threats, a day after the deadly capturing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah faculty.
In accordance with CNN’s evaluation of occasions reported by the Gun Violence Archive, Training Week and Everytown for Gun Security, there have been 47 faculty shootings within the US thus far this yr, as of 10 September. Twenty-four had been on faculty campuses, and 23 had been on Ok-12 faculty grounds. The incidents left 19 individuals lifeless and at the very least 77 different victims injured.
The killing of Charlie Kirk is getting used to mobilise help earlier than what is predicted to be Britain’s largest far-right rally in a long time, which is able to embody audio system from Britain, the US and Europe. The rally is predicted to draw upwards of 40,000 attenders, in line with the anti-extremism group Hope Not Hate. A smaller gathering organised by the group Stand As much as Racism can be going down.
A fundraising web page, organised by Tucker Carlson’s nicotine pouch firm ALP on the Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo, has already raised greater than $3.7m for the Kirk household after ALP’s preliminary $1m donation. In accordance with a number of sources, Kirk’s estimated web value on the time of his loss of life was $12m.
Erika Kirk, widow of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, gave a combative speech saying her late husband’s message and mission shall be “stronger, bolder, louder and better than ever” and that her “cries will echo around the globe like a battle cry”. A tour of school campuses by his hard-right youth group Turning Level USA would proceed, she stated, in her first public assertion since her husband’s killing. She urged college students to begin Turning Level USA chapters at their faculties.
Authorities introduced on Friday that that they had arrested a suspect in connection Charlie Kirk’s killing at a talking occasion at Utah Valley College (UVU) on Wednesday. Tyler Robinson, 22, is now in custody at Utah County Jail.
Robinson’s household pal turned him in, and instructed officers that Robinson “confessed to them or implied that he had dedicated the incident”, governor Spencer Cox instructed a press convention. A member of the family that investigators interviewed described Robinson as changing into “extra political in recent times” and was conscious that Kirk was resulting from converse at UVU, stated Cox.
The weapon used was recognized as a high-action bolt rifle, and Cox famous that a number of bullet casings had been discovered on the scene of the crime. Certainly one of three unfired casings learn “Hey fascist! Catch!”, a second learn “Oh Bella Ciao” (which is the title of an anti-fascist Italian anthem), and a 3rd casing had the next engraved: “In case you learn this, you’re homosexual, LMAO”. The Wall Road Journal initially reported on Thursday that an inside regulation enforcement bulletin stated that ammunition recovered after the Charlie Kirk capturing was engraved with expressions of unspecified “transgender ideology”, however inside an hour the New York Instances, citing a number of sources, reported that these claims had been probably not true. The WSJ has since posted an Editor’s Observe saying that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives “urged warning” round inaccurate stories of the transgender engravings.
Donald Trump instructed Fox & Pals in an interview – throughout which he additionally introduced {that a} suspect was in custody – that he hoped the shooter “will get the loss of life penalty”. He declined to name for the US to return collectively as a approach of fixing the nation’s divisions, saying “I couldn’t care much less” and as a substitute casting “vicious and horrible radicals” on the left of US politics as the only drawback. He added that these radicals “need males in girls’s sports activities, they need transgender for everybody, they need open borders.”
Jeff Grey, the Utah county legal professional, plans to file formal costs towards Tyler Robinson on Tuesday, his workplace stated. In accordance with court docket data obtained by CNN, Robinson is being held with out bail on a number of preliminary costs, together with aggravated homicide, felony discharge of a firearm, and obstruction of justice.
A Utah Valley College spokesperson confirmed right now that Robinson is a third-year scholar within the electrical apprenticeship program at Dixie Technical Faculty. He additionally briefly attended Utah State College.
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