Former President Barack Obama addressed Charlie Kirk’s death amid what he called an unprecedented political crisis facing the nation today, taking a veiled shot at President Donald Trump.
Former President Barack Obama said conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death was « horrific and a tragedy », while also taking a veiled shot at President Donald Trump with accusations of sowing political division in the country as the nation faces an unprecedented « political crisis. »
« Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific and a tragedy », Obama said Tuesday night at the Jefferson Educational Society’s 17th annual global summit in Erie, Pennsylvania.
« Obviously I didn’t know Charlie Kirk », Obama said. « I was generally aware of some of his ideas. I think those ideas were wrong, but that doesn’t negate the fact that what happened was a tragedy and that I mourn for him and his family. »
Obama, who said Tuesday that the nation is facing a « political crisis of the sort that we haven’t seen before », did not mention Trump by name in his remarks.
Kirk, 31, was killed after suffering a gunshot wound in the neck during his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley University Sept.
