Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Sunday said he got a “sobering” call from President Trump after the Charlie Kirk assassination — and that the prez is “not wrong’’ about reportedly being worried for himself and other GOP pols.
Utah’s governor Sunday said he got a “sobering” call from President Trump after the Charlie Kirk assassination — and that the prez is “not wrong’’ about reportedly being worried for himself and other GOP pols.
Trump, 79, rang up Gov. Spencer Cox, 50, after the Republican governor held a press conference Friday updating the public on the capture of Kirk’s suspected killer, Cox said.
The president made it clear that he was “angry” over what happened to Kirk, a friend who was instrumental in spreading conservatism to young Americans, the governor said.
“It was a long conversation, by the way. We talked about lots of things. But it was very sobering,” the Utah governor recounted to CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Anchor Dana Bash asked Cox about a report in the magazine The Atlantic that said Trump told Cox at the time, “You know, the type of person who would do something like that to Charlie Kirk would love to do it to us.”
Cox told Bash of Trump, “He’s not wrong.
“I mean, he knows better than anyone. As someone who literally was injured by a bullet, I mean, a fraction of an inch away from being killed a year ago, he understands that better than anyone.
