When questioned during a CBS News town hall which aired Saturday about President Donald Trumps reaction to a video encouraging members of the military to disobey allegedly illegal orders, Turning Point USA (TPUSA) CEO Erika Kirk said all Americans share the responsibility of cooling down rhetoric.
Democratic Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin and five other Democrats who served in the military or intelligence agenciesappearedin a Nov. 18videowhich urged members of the military and intelligence agencies to disregard supposedly illegal orders issued by Trump. The president later accused those Democrats of sedition and claimed their actions could warrant the death penalty. Hunter Kozak, the person who wasdebatingTPUSA founder Charlie Kirk about transgender mass shooters at the Sept. 10 TPUSA event when Kirk wasgunned down, asked if Erika Kirk condemned Trumps comments.
I want to tell you how much I appreciate your calls for peace and unity, and Im likewise horrified by the people in my so-called camp who were cheering about Charlies murder, Kozak told Erika Kirk. I believe that they stoke the flames of violence. But even worse is when powerful, influential people on either side of the aisle stoke the flames. When they do it, the flames can become an inferno, and this leads me to Donald Trump, the most powerful and influential person on earth, who has more responsibility than anyone else to put the flames out. Just last month, President Trump called on six Democratic lawmakers to be tried for sedition, which he clarified was punishable by death.
Slotkin wasunableto name an illegal order Trump issued when she was pressed by This Week host Martha Raddatz.
I appreciate your question. You know my heart. Why would I ever say, Yes, go murder people?' Erika Kirk responded. This is so much deeper than just one I understand your sentiment, I do but this is also so much deeper than just one person. This starts at the home, okay? This starts with family, this starts with a seed that grows and grows. You can choose to have evil in your heart or you can choose to have light. What you consume and what you absorb from the outside world will manifest itself.
No, I will never agree with political violence, Mrs. Kirk said. My husbands a victim of it, Im a victim of it, but what Im trying to say here is that we can blame everyone else. We have to look in the mirror. When you become a father, when you become a mother, how are you raising your kids?
Erika Kirk also criticized parents for using iPads and other devices as a substitute for parenting children.
So my call to action from that is, Parents, step up. Do you want your kid to be a thought leader or an assassin?' Kirk added. Thats where were at.
Do you think our political leaders have a responsibility to turn the temperature down right now? CBS Newss Bari Weiss asked Kirk.
Well, I think everyone has a responsibility to do that and Im doing my part. Im not in control of other people, she responded.
TPUSA reportedly received over 100,000 inquiries about starting chapters since Kirks assassination, though some efforts to start high school chapters have met resistance in parts of the country. In Royal Oak, Michigan, for example, liberalscriticizedthe school board for allowing a high school chapter to form, while an Albemarle County, Virginia school board membercame under firefor comparing TPUSA to the Ku Klux Klan.
In addition, Prince William County, officialsresistedthe formation of a TPUSA chapter at Patriot High School, prompting one parent to light into the Virginia countys school board.
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