President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press before boarding Air Force One in Morristown, New Jersey on Sunday. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s plea for people to stop turning Charlie Kirk’s assassination into a political food fight appears to have fallen on deaf ears among many on the right.
President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies have continued casting the event as proof that political violence is the domain of the left — much more so than the right.
“When you look at the problems, the problem is on the left,” the president told reporters Sunday. “It’s not on the right.”
“While our side of the aisle certainly has its crazies, it is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics in American politics today are proud members of the far