As news of the death of Charlie Kirk broke yesterday, conservative journalist Megyn Kelly was interviewing Glenn Beck, a prominent political commentator on the right.

"There are news outlets reporting the worst now Glenn," Kelly said, choking back tears. "They're reporting that Charlie has died."

"There's no way he survived that," said Beck of the bullet that struck Kirk in the neck as he spoke at a college campus in Utah. He then began weeping.

Across social media conservative influencers have exploded with a mix of grief and rage. Some mourned the loss of Kirk as a martyr, while others, without evidence, quickly blamed the left and Democrats for, at the very least, provoking the unknown shooter. Some went further still, suggesting that malevolent forces had orchestrated the killin

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