President Donald Trump is exploiting the assassination of Charlie Kirk to tighten his grip on power, political analyst David Rothkopf has warned on The Daily Beast Podcast.

Days after a gunman killed the high-profile conservative activist at a Utah university, investigators have yet to identify a clear motive. But Trump and his acolytes have already declared war on “the left,” turning tragedy into a political weapon.

“What you really see here is that there is a move from Trump and from [his deputy chief of staff Stephen] Miller and from [Vice President] JD Vance and from a lot of these people, not to solve the crime, not to be transparent, but actually to use the crime as a justification for their authoritarian power grab,” Rothkopf told host Joanna Coles and Daily Beast Executive Edit

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