Tech billionaire Elon Musk claimed that left-leaning people were “celebrating” conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death “openly.”
“And then you see how much violence there’s on the left, with our friend Charlie Kirk getting murdered in cold blood this week, and people on the left celebrating it openly,” Musk said.
“The left is the party of murder,” he added.
Musk posted his comments in a video clip on Sunday on the social platform X, but they appear to have been made during an event reported by The Associated Press as a march in London organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
Earlier this week, Kirk was talking at an event at a university in Orem, Utah, when shot and killed. Following a manhunt featuring state, local and federal law enforcement, officials identified the alleged suspect as Tyler Robinson, 22, of Utah.
Kirk’s death has rattled American politics, with New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman saying Friday “many people around President Trump are very close to Charlie Kirk.”
“President Trump was very close to Charlie Kirk,” she added. “And President Trump faced two assassination attempts, one near miss last year.”
“And so all of that is a lot of the context for how people in the White House and the president are responding to this. I think that he is struggling with this in terms of how to deal with this,” she added.
