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'You are envy, you are hatred': Kirk memorial turns into unhinged rally




President Donald Trump used his speech at the memorial service for
conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sunday at 63,400-seat State Farm Stadium
in Arizona, to continue obscuring Kirk’s long record of hateful and bigoted
comments and views. Other speakers were also a part of the process of using
what was billed as a memorial service instead as a political rally for the
right.



“He was a missionary with a noble spirit and a great, great purpose. He did
not hate his opponents, he wanted the best for them,” Trump said. “That’s where
I disagreed with Charlie, I hate my opponent.”





 



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Hate was central to Kirk’s career as a political organizer for the right and
as a political pundit. From his platform, Kirk preached bigotry against
multiple groups of Americans. He struck out against transgender people, in
January referring to the “trans mafia” and the “purple haired jihadis” who he
praised as “being run out in decent society.” Years before that he said a trans
student in Wyoming should be bullied and imprisoned.



Kirk also called for former President Joe Biden to be executed and argued that
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is Black, did not “have the
brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously” and “had to go
steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”



Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, also brushed past her husband’s incendiary rhetoric
in her speech, instead alleging that “the greatest cause in Charlie’s life was
trying to revive the American family.”

By contrast, figures like New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have
condemned Kirk’s killing while also speaking out against efforts to whitewash
who he was.





 



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On Friday, while speaking in opposition to a congressional resolution
honoring Kirk, Ocasio-Cortez noted, “We can deeply disagree and come together
as a country to denounce the horror of this killing, and it is not a license
for the abuse of power and whitewashing of American history.”

The measure passed the House with the support of 95 Democrats, including
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.



At the memorial, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, who has a
history of supporting white supremacy, continued the crusade.

Miller falsely claimed that the political left supported Kirk’s killing,
adding, “You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness, you are
jealousy, you are envy, you are hatred, you are nothing.”

The rally was billed as a memorial to a slain political figure, but
ultimately it was a full-blown political rally, another moment in which the
right decided to lie about who Kirk was while using the moment to push their
censorious political agenda.



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