President Donald Trump has called for national healing, following the fatal shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, while in the same breath blaming his death on “radical left lunatics.”

Speaking to NBC News on Saturday, the president said left-wing ideologies stand in the way of reconciliation in the United States.

“I’d like to see [the nation] heal,” Trump said. “But we’re dealing with a radical left group of lunatics, and they don’t play fair and they never did.”

Doubling down on earlier comments, the president’s suggestion that Kirk’s suspected assassin, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, is of a left-wing persuasion is at odds with the facts at present.

Robinson’s family are self-proclaimed MAGA supporters, though it has been reported that he did not share their beliefs. He is an

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