President Donald Trump did not call for unity Friday in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killing, but instead pointed to what he called the “vicious” nature of the radical left.
Wyoming Democratic lawmakers who spoke to Cowboy State Daily were unsurprised but still frustrated at the president’s comments.
Two members of Wyoming’s congressional delegation, conversely, cast the president’s reaction as understandable.
Charlie Kirk’s gunshot death Wednesday shook the public sphere — in part because of a graphic video of the shot and the spewing neck wound it left, and in part because Kirk was an ardent driver of open discourse.
Trump took to a Fox News show Friday to discuss the incident and the arrest of the alleged shooter.
"Fox & Friends" co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked,