Former President Barack Hussein Obama faced significant online blowback on Tuesday, September 10, when he chimed in on X (formerly Twitter) to comment on the assassination of Turning Point USA Founder and Trump ally Charlie Kirk, demanding Republicans not blame the violent left for its actions and insisting that the motive of the assassin was unknown.
Particularly, many of those who sounded off on former President Obama pointed to his history of unacceptable remarks about President Trump and MAGA Republicans, noting that he himself had participated in the very sort of irresponsible, violence-fueling rhetoric he now claims to despise and dislike.
In the initial, extremely hypocritical post at issue, the former president said, “We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.”
Commenters quickly swarmed to attack the former president for his absurd claims. One such poster, the top commenter on his post, said, “The radical Leftism you supported in every way possible is why this occurred. That you pose as not knowing the motivation, as though it’s not obvious, is pathetic. Just shut your BSing mouth for once.”
Other commenters chimed in and pushed much the same message, accusing the former president of personal complicity with messages like “Look in the mirror. You’re the one who started this. That will forever be your legacy, the president that destroyed the social fabric of the country” and “You started this.”
Much like the commenters on X, Outkick founder Clay Travis appeared on Fox News and went absolutely nuclear on the former president, pointing out how the former president’s harsh and extreme rhetoric is the sort of thing that echoes around the heads of deranged, violent individuals and emboldens them to do something crazy.
Travis said, speaking about the matter, “You can’t call the president of the United States Adolf Hitler for 10 years, and you can’t say that he’s a fascist dictator.” He added, getting worked up and yelling, “You cannot say that anyone who voted for Trump or advocated for him like you, me, Riley, and Charlie Kirk are Nazis, and then when someone tries to kill us, suddenly say, ‘Oh, we condemn this violence.’ YOU caused it!”
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Further commenting on much that same point, the media figure noted that those who push such radical messages as Obama did are doing it because they want violence to occur, saying, “Look at me right now! You caused this! When you tell people that someone is Hitler, you are telling crazy people: ‘Go kill them.’ And I am sick of pretending that is anything other than what they are doing.”
Concluding, Travis noted that the violence that Obama and others in his party have pushed people into with their irresponsible rhetoric is what led to Kirk’s death, saying, “This is what they do. This left-wing violence, it’s out of control, and Charlie Kirk bore the brunt of that left-wing violence.” Watch him here: