Obama Tries to Blame Trump for Charlie Kirk's Murder: 'Extreme Views Were Not in My White House'

Barack Obama has suggested that President Donald Trump was responsible for the brutal public assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Obama claims that Trump’s policies and personnel choices had fueled extremism.

Speaking at the Jefferson Educational Society in Erie, Pennsylvania, Obama called Kirk’s death “horrific.”

However, he immediately pivoted to reciting a list of Kirk’s supposed “controversial” statements.

Obama included the false claim that Kirk had said black women were stupid.

He warned that Trump would use the killing “as a rationale for trying to silence discussion around who we are as a country and what direction we should go.”

“Those extreme views were not in my White House,” Obama added.

“I wasn’t embracing them.

“I wasn’t empowering them.

“I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind extremist views.”

However, Obama appeared to conveniently forget his own divisive record.

Obama’s Record Of Fanning Division

In reality, it was Obama who inaugurated much of the division that now grips American politics.

On the 2008 campaign trail, he infamously told supporters to “argue with them, get in their face” when confronting friends and neighbors who disagreed.

As president, he lent credibility to the violent Occupy Wall Street protests and stoked the Trayvon Martin controversy into a nationwide racial crisis, elevating civil rights grifter Al Sharpton.

Obama had once kept the far-left demagogue at arm’s length until political needs changed.

Most significantly, Obama embraced the radical Black Lives Matter movement, which went on to fuel riots and chaos across the nation.

His administration also featured officials with extremist sympathies.

Anita Dunn, for instance, once praised Mao Zedong, the communist dictator responsible for tens of millions of deaths, as one of her personal philosophical inspirations.

Obama himself secretly met with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a racist and anti-Semitic figure, before his presidency.

A photo of the encounter was deliberately suppressed by a sympathetic corporate media until years later.

A History Of Targeting Republicans

Obama’s call in Erie for Republicans to embrace “moderate” figures such as Utah Gov. Spencer Cox also rang hollow.

During his presidency, he often spurned Republican attempts at compromise.

When then-House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan proposed entitlement reforms, Obama invited him to attend a speech, only to attack him to his face in front of a national audience.

Obama later admitted he regretted the ambush, saying he had not realized Ryan was in the room.

But in Erie, there was no such contrition for the toxic climate he helped create.

Radical Policy, Unilateral Power Grabs

Obama’s record also undermines his attempt to portray Trump as an outlier.

He forced through Obamacare despite sweeping public opposition, polarizing American politics rather than pursuing bipartisan reforms.

He labeled the Tea Party movement “extremists,” then shifted further left after losing control of Congress in 2010.

In 2014, after losing the Senate as well, he enacted sweeping immigration changes by executive fiat, despite previously admitting he lacked the constitutional authority to do so.

And today, Obama continues to push aggressively partisan strategies like nationwide gerrymandering while accusing others of fueling division.

The Contrast

Obama’s remarks in Erie attempted to link Trump to Kirk’s assassination, while ignoring the reality that it is the Left that has increasingly treated political violence as justified.

While decrying “extremism,” Obama once again leaned on the same divisive playbook that helped bring America to its current fractured state.