Bill Maher began his monologue on In real time with Bill Maher By denouncing a “very ugly week in America” following the assassination of the far -right political activist Charlie Kirk.
While the public applauded his entry, the host thanked the viewers for having “come in a somewhat difficult week” and noted to the prolonged assault: “I hope it is for what I think it is for – because I have always been someone who wants talk to people. “”
“It is a very ugly week in America with violence of all kinds: political violence, regular violence, many people who speak of a civil war,” continued Maher. “And then today in the Congress, because Charlie Kirk was murdered, [Colorado Representative] Lauren Boebert got up and said, “We must have a prayer”. So they started to have a silent prayer. And then she started to shout: “No! Silent prayers obtain silent results. As if praying aloud obtained great results. So the Democrats began to shout at him that there was a school in his state. I tell you, so far, the civil war is not very civil. »»
Maher continued saying that the alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, 22, was a “household son”.
“They said he had acted alone,” joked Maher, “I’m sure it’s not the only thing he does alone.”
Addressing the recent comments of President Donald Trump on what should be done to fill the partisan fracture within the nation, the host said: “Today, they asked the president:” What are you going to do to bring the country to bring together? “And he said,” I know it will cause me trouble, but I don’t care. It’s another type of cat.
Later in the episode, which presented the guests Charlie Sheen, his colleague Ultra-Conservative Personality Ben Shapiro and The Atlantic The writer Tim Alberta, Maher added: “I like everyone, I speak to everyone, I am happy to have adopted this approach. But he was shot dead under a banner who said, “Prove me the opposite”, because he was just a debate, and too many people think that the way of doing that – to do you wrong – it’s just that I think I think I would not be. War, I am not useful for you.
Kirk, one of the most eminent organizers on the right, in particular in Collegiate Life via his Turning Point USA organization, was addressed to thousands of students during an outdoor event held at the University of Utah Valley when he was shot dead. About two hours later, Trump announced his death on Truth Social. The president said Thursday that he would award Kirk the presidential medal of freedom.
A figure of division for its adoption of Christian nationalism, which had described the adoption of the civil rights law a “enormous error” and declared that certain deaths linked to armed violence were “cautious” in order to guarantee the protection of the second amendment, although the death of Kirk was quickly condemned by past and present political leaders – against the president of Mayoral of New York. Not having much empathy for your murder, invoking the own words of the deceased expert that “empathy is an invented and new age which … does a lot of damage”.
Political violence has increased in the United States in recent years, with the Kirk shooting just a few months after the assassination of Minnesota legislative, Melissa Hortman and her husband, as well as the shooting of a state senator and his wife and the residence of the Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro.
