President Donald Trump began an address to the nation Wednesday night by expressing horror at the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk , a close ally who was killed hours earlier in a shocking shooting on a college campus in Utah.

"All who knew him and loved him are united in shock and horror," Trump said in a recorded statement from the Oval Office.

Then the president quickly pivoted to blaming the "radical left" for the assassination, even though an investigation into the shooting at Utah Valley University is still ongoing and authorities have not yet identified the shooter or their motives.

"For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is dir

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