Former President Barack Obama says that the United States lies at a “flexion point” after the conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murder and that President Donald Trump further divided the country instead of working on bringing people together.
“There are no ifs, and there is or but: The central premise of our democratic system is that we have to be able not to agree and sometimes lead to really controversial debates without resorting to violence,” said Obama on Tuesday evening during an event that was organized by the transcription preserved by The Associated Press in Pennsylvania.
“And if it happens to some, but even if you think you are quoted on the other side of the argument, unquote, it is a threat to all of us,” he said. “And we have to be clear and open to condemn them.”
Obama has been reflected in his post-president. When he answered the questions of a moderator on Tuesday, he dealt with Trump’s rhetoric to Kirk’s assassination attempt on Tuesday and other administrative measures.
The Democrat spoke about his own leadership after he spoke nine black parishioners in a Charleston in 2015, in South Carolina, in the church in Charleston, in the church of Republicans, as well as in the actions of republican then President George W. Bush after the terrorist attacks on September 11th. He said he saw the role of a president in a crisis “to constantly remind us of the connections that stick together”.
The feeling of Trump and his adjutants according to Kirk’s killing, political opponent “laying enemies … to a broader problem,” said Obama.
Kirk, a dominant personality of conservative politics, became a confidante of Trump after founded the U.S. Arizona, one of the largest political organizations in the country. Trump has escalated the threats to pass what he describes as a “radical left” according to Kirk’s assassination attempt, and fears that his Republican government will try to employ outrage over the murder to suppress the political opposition.
Trump’s white house on Wednesday reacted to Obama’s statements by blaming him for hostility in the country and describing him as the “architect of modern political division in America”.
“Obama used every opportunity to sow the division and to put Americans against each other, and after his presidency, more Americans, Obama played the country when he had united,” said the spokeswoman for the White House, Abigail Jackson, in a explanation.
On Tuesday, Obama also referred Trump’s most recent employ of troops from the National Guard in Washington and ID checks by federal agents in Los Angeles. He asked the citizens and elected civil servants to carefully monitor the standard -bustling decisions.
“I think you see the feeling that George Bush, through many of the guardrails and norms I thought, had to comply with as President of the United States, that as President of the United States, I would suddenly no longer apply,” said Obama. “And that makes this a dangerous moment.”
Shortly after Kirk’s death, Obama wrote in a post on X that he and his wife Michelle Michelle for Kirk’s family: “This type of detention -worthy violence has no place in our democracy.”
Obama said that he did not agree with many punches of Kirk and found that his position “does not negate the fact that it was a tragedy and that I mourn for him and his family”.
Obama called political violence “anthema for what it means to be a democratic country”, and also mentioned the deaths in June of the representative of the state of Minnesota, Melissa Hortman and her husband in her house.
Obama also welcomed Utah Governor Spencer Cox to courtesy to lead the public reaction to Kirk’s murder. Obama said, while he and the Republican governor “do not agree with a whole series of things”, Cox ‘shows how to react to Kirk’s death “that it does not agree with us to keep a fundamental code at the same time as we should get involved in public debates.”
Shortly before Obama spoke, the 22-year-old suspect, who was laid down in Kirk’s murder, met his first court records for charges, including the capital murder. According to court documents that were published on Tuesday, the authorities were looking for the person who had shot Kirk at Utah Valley University last week and admitted an SMS with his partner and admitted that he had been the shooter. A judge said he would appoint a lawyer who represents Robinson whose family had refused to comment on the Associated Press.
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Meg Kinnard can be reached at http://x.com/megkinnardap.
