Sounding off on the radical left Democrats who she thinks were the inspiration for the horrible assassin who murdered Charlie Kirk in Utah, Laura Ingraham called out a number of them by name and by quote during the broadcast of her program on Fox News Channel, saying that they were spiritual “co-conspirators” with the shooter.
Beginning that angry show opener, the clearly furious and saddened FNC host declared, “Co-conspirators in hate. That’s the focus of tonight’s Angle. Of the many disturbing aspects of this week’s events is the fact that Charlie’s suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, didn’t act alone. He had help, or at least inspiration.”
Continuing, she then rolled the tape of Democrats trying to stir up their followers against Republicans with radical rhetoric. First, a clip played of CNN personality Anderson Cooper asking VP Kamala Harris, “Let me ask you tonight, do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?” She said, “Yes, I do.”
Clips then rolled of other Democrats saying much the same thing. Radical leftist Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), for example, said, in a clip Ingraham showed, “Try to prevent the spread of the lawlessness and the fascist chaos that’s been unleashed against us.” Then AOC said, “So, when we say Donald Trump is a fascist, fascism, a huge component of fascism is uniting racism, bigotry, a form of racist nationalism.” A clip then played of Tim Walz saying, “No one has ever been more dangerous to this country than Donald Trump, and he is a fascist to his core.”
Using those clips to prove her point, Ingraham argued that the killer was spurred on by repeated and baseless Democrat-aired claims that Republicans like Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump are “fascists” and need to be stopped by any means necessary. She said, “Now the FBI, of course, as we just talked about, revealed that the bullet casings found near the weapon included an anti-fascist message.”
Continuing, she argued that the clear, radical rhetoric pushed by the Democrats came across as an “exhortation to act,” saying, “Now it’s not a leap to believe, as I’ve said many, many times on this show that those words, ‘MAGA Republicans are fascists, they’re dangerous,’ repeatedly and endlessly uttered by prominent individuals can come across like an order, or at least like an exhortation to act.”
She then called out even former President Joe Biden, noting that though he was an “old fool,” he helped “light the fuse” of leftist violence. She said, “And Joe Biden, you know, he may be a doddering old fool, but his speech three years ago at Independence Hall helped light the fuse.” Footage then rolled of Biden saying, “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represented extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic, that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.”
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And, tying it to Mr. Kirk, she said, “Now, Charlie understood this better than most, because he willingly, frequently, boldly put himself out there, and he went toe-to-toe with liberals, with Leftists, with anarchists, atheists. He gave them their chances to debate him, but they never won, and they still haven’t won.”
Then, after rolling footage of her conversation with him, Ingraham pinned the blame firmly on the radical left, saying, “In their laboratories of radicalism and hatred, Leftists mixed the lethal toxin that triggered this. Now, in the month before the Butler assassination attempt, Joe Biden planted the seed in the public consciousness that a threat needed to be neutralized. Call it a genuine threat, threat to our freedom, the greatest threat to democracy that was Donald Trump.”
She added, “Now, the obvious inference is, this is such a grave danger that it needs to be stopped by any means necessary. That’s how Thomas Crooks and Ryan Routh saw the situation. Of course, for years, Democrats, though, have refused to confront the lethal toxin they were brewing, and instead, it was just this.”
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