The assassination of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk at a college campus in Utah has ignited a firestorm of anger on the right, with many politicians and influencers excoriating “the left” and others appearing to call for retribution and even warning of “civil war.”

Shortly after Kirk’s death was confirmed Wednesday, president Donald Trump gave an Oval Office address from behind the Resolute Desk. Without presenting evidence, Trump blamed Kirk’s murder on the “radical left.” He rebuked those he claimed had compared “wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass-murderers and criminals.”

Trump said such rhetoric is “directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today,” and he vowed to hunt down “every one of those who contributed to this a

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