In the final moments of a tense, marathon interview on CNN's State of the Union Sunday, Tapper played Jan. 6 footage and compared it to the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Those are law enforcement officers being physically attacked, Tapper said of the Jan. 6 officers. By this standard, would any of those officers be justified in shooting and killing the people causing them physical harm? Noem's answer suggested that she believes the Capitol police would have indeed been justified in shooting Jan. 6 rioters.
The many, many troubling things that right-wing activist Charlie Kirk said in the public spotlight during his brief career are being trotted out online in the immediate aftermath of his horrific assassination, including comments he made about the 2022 hammer attack on Paul Pelosi. We are going to be hearing a lot from Trump and the Republicans in the coming days about how violent the American Left is, no matter what we end up learning about the person who shot Charlie Kirk.