President Donald Trump and the GOP are going all out to honor right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, after he was shot and killed during a Utah college event on Wednesday.

It's a marked difference from how the right behaved in June, when Trump supporter Vance Boelter assassinated former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and wounded Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.

On Thursday, Trump announced that he is going to posthumously award Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom and ordered flags to be flown half-staff in Kirk’s memory. Notably, Trump did not do the same when Hortman was killed.

Trump also called former GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, who was at the event where Kirk was killed, to see how he was doing. Of course, Trump did not extend the sam

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