Barack Obama Makes Disgusting Claim About Charlie Kirk’s Assassination
Partisan warfare erupted in Washington this week after the assassination of Turning Point USA president Charlie Kirk, with Republicans and Democrats openly trading accusations over who bears responsibility for fueling the political climate that led to the killing.
On the House floor, tempers flared as Republicans charged Democrats with years of demonizing conservatives, while Democrats sought to downplay the incident by portraying the shooter as an isolated individual.
The controversy only deepened after former President Barack Obama issued a statement Wednesday claiming he “doesn’t know” what motivated Kirk’s killer — a remark many on the right saw as both evasive and hypocritical.
“We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy,” Obama wrote in a post on X.
Conservatives quickly pounced, arguing that the same Democrat who spent years warning about supposed “right-wing extremism” is now pretending not to understand the impact of his own rhetoric. They pointed to Obama’s long history of comparing President Donald Trump and his supporters to fascists as a dangerous moral license for deranged individuals to commit violence.
Outkick founder Clay Travis blasted Obama on Fox News, accusing him of laying the groundwork for radical left-wing violence by repeatedly branding Trump and his movement as Nazis.
“You can’t call the president of the United States Adolf Hitler for 10 years, and you can’t say that he’s a fascist dictator,” Travis said.
“You cannot say that anyone who voted for Trump or advocated for him like you, me, Riley, and Charlie Kirk are Nazis, and then when someone tries to kill us, suddenly say, ‘Oh, we condemn this violence.’ You caused it!” he thundered.
Past remarks from Obama and other Democrats have resurfaced in light of the assassination. NBC News once reported that Obama privately referred to Trump as a “fascist” during a 2016 phone call with then–vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine. Hillary Clinton herself later echoed that line at a rally, saying Democrats needed to do “everything they can to keep a fascist out of the White House.”
Conservatives say that this kind of rhetoric created a permission structure for violence — one that culminated in Kirk’s death.
“Look at me right now! You caused this! When you tell people that someone is Hitler, you are telling crazy people: Go kill them. And I am sick of pretending that is anything other than what they are doing,” Travis said.
As further evidence, Travis pointed to the arrest of Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old who attempted to assassinate President Trump in West Palm Beach. Routh admitted he believed Trump was “like Hitler,” a view Democrats and their media allies have promoted for years.
“This is what they do. This left-wing violence, it’s out of control, and Charlie Kirk bore the brunt of that left-wing violence,” Travis added.
Meanwhile, Democrats continue to shrug off accountability. When asked whether her party’s rhetoric contributed to Kirk’s murder, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) snapped back, “Oh, please. Why don’t you start with the President of the United States?”
Her dismissive tone only enraged Republicans further, who see a blatant double standard: the left spent years accusing Trump of inciting violence while now refusing to acknowledge their own incendiary words.
To conservatives, Kirk’s assassination is not just a tragedy but a grim warning. Unless Democrats reckon with the culture of hatred they’ve fostered against Trump supporters, many fear more political violence is inevitable.