A Facebook post by Houston’s ABC13 news station announcing President Donald Trump’s plan to award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom ignited a wave of vitriolic reactions. Hundreds of leftist commenters openly celebrate the conservative speaker’s assassination and mock his legacy in a chilling display of political hatred.

The Houston ABC news affiliate’s Facebook page is home to more than two million followers. Among the readers who posted thoughtful commentary and condolences, hundreds of others expressed pleasure at the act of violence that robbed Kirk of his life on Wednesday afternoon. Others were dismayed that the President intends to award Kirk the Medal of Freedom posthumously.

One commenter on the post with a username of Guido Falconi shamelessly lamented, “So the

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