MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd Victim-Blames Charlie Kirk Minutes After Shooting

Isaac Schorr Sep 10th, 2025, 4:05 pm

MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd immediately blamed Charlie Kirk — the right-wing activist and Turning Point USA founder who was shot at an event in Utah on Wednesday — for his own fate upon joining his colleague Katy Tur to discuss the shooting on air.

After Tur criticized permissive gun laws in Utah, she asked Dowd to weigh in on the horrifying events of the afternoon.

“Matthew, I’m gonna bring you in on this. Talk to me about the environment. You know, we are, there are-, reports of exactly what happened are not confirmed yet. But talk to me about the environment in which a shooting like this happens,” Tur prompted Dowd.

Dowd proceeded to speculate wildly about the attack, s

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