On Tuesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” NPR Domestic Extremism Correspondent Odette Yousef reacted to the text exchange in which Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin said that “Some hate can’t be negotiated out” by saying that “Kirk, it should be noted, often spoke of his anti-trans views.” And that if the charges laid out by prosecutors about Kirk’s assassination are true, it “would represent a significant escalation in violence from what’s perceived as the political left.”

Yousef said prosecutors “shared information about a note that [the suspect] allegedly left behind for this roommate, saying, ‘I ha[d] the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I’m going to take it.’ And when his roommate asked, after the killing, why [the suspect] had done it, [the suspect] texted, ‘I

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