A day after Trump blamed the ‘radical left’ for shooting, vowing a crackdown, president says Kirk advocated nonviolence and ‘that’s the way I’d like to see people respond’. Key US politics stories from Thursday 11 September
Donald Trump has said his supporters should respond peacefully to the killing of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk as the gunman continued to evade a manhunt more than 24 hours after the fatal shooting.
A day after Trump gave an inflammatory address blaming the “radical left” for the killing and pledging a wide-ranging response, the president agreed with a suggestion from a conservative reporter that his supporters should not respond with violence.
