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.
