Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and military leaders vow swift action against personnel who celebrate or mock the conservative activist’s death, calling such behavior “completely unacceptable.”
The Department of Defense, under the Trump administration’s preferred name, the Department of War, is actively “tracking” comments made by its civilian and military employees regarding the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, with leaders across the services warning of severe consequences for any inappropriate remarks.
The warnings came in the wake of Wednesday’s fatal shooting of Kirk, the 31-year-old co-founder of Turning Point USA, at Utah Valley University. While the killing has been widely condemned by political figures from both sides of the aisle, a small number of social me