Dave Portnoy Declares Trump Played ‘Huge Part’ in Kirk Assassination By Being ‘Divisive’

Jennifer Bowers Bahney Sep 11th, 2025, 5:55 pm

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said Thursday that President Donald Trump played a “huge part” in conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

“Politics definitely has a huge part in it. Trump — and when I say Trump has a huge part in it, I don’t necessarily mean he’s to blame for it — but he’s so divisive, without even really — his face is just divisive. Like, he just — people hate him so much,” Portnoy said.

“And the left and the right, the rhetoric — especially to me the left — is insane. And it just boils, boils, boils, boils. And this happened with Trump, when, his assassination attempt, there was like a three-hour period of ‘

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