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Stephen Colbert Responds to Incident Involving Right-Wing Personality Charlie Kirk - Internewscast Journal

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83% : Charlie, we love you!' Trump later addressed the nation in a somber speech delivered from the Oval Office.
50% : He fought for liberty, democracy, justice and the American people.' 'He's a martyr for truth and freedom and there has never been anyone who was so respected by youth,' Trump continued.
45% : Trump concluded by urging Americans to take a page from Kirk's values of 'free speech, citizenship, the rule of law and the patriotic devotion and love of God'. 'Charlie was the best of America and the monster who was attacking him was attacking our whole country,' Trump added, before declaring that he administration would track down anyone responsible for the right-wing provocateur's death.
41% : No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie,' Trump wrote.
40% : 'Being old enough, I distinctly remember the political violence of the 1960s, and I hope it is clear to all in America that political violence fails to address any of our political disputes,' the host added.
40% : Charlie inspired millions and tonight, all who knew him and loved him are united in shock and horror,' Trump said.
37% : 'Radical Left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives,' he said, though the person who shot Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was a registered Republican who had espoused anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant views on social media.
25% : This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today and it must stop right now,' Trump said, before comparing Kirk's killing to his own assassination attempt and other political shootings.
21% : Media critics have speculated that the show was canceled in an attempt to help secure government approval for the merger of CBS's parent company Paramount Global and Skydance Media, after Trump repeatedly attacked Colbert on social media.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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