Historian Heather Cox Richardson claimed during a Friday podcast that liberals didn’t celebrate the assassination of Turning Point USA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk.
Authorities arrested 22-year-old Tyler Robinson early Friday morning, accusing him of killing Kirk during a TPUSA “Prove Me Wrong” event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, during which Kirk engaged in civil debate with students. Richardson claimed that the “radical right” had created a narrative that Kirk was a “target of the left.”
“As soon as the shooting happened, there is this outpouring insisting that he [Kirk] was a target of the left, insisting that people who were not MAGA were celebrating his death. I didn’t see that absolutely anywhere and I was online significantly that day,” Richardson claimed during her podc