Ex-MSNBC analyst and Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt told former MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd on Wednesday that he was fired for “telling the truth” about Charlie Kirk.

“And in the moments where it was unclear what had happened to Charlie Kirk, just that shots had been fired, Matthew stated something that is of profound importance,” Schmidt began during an interview with Dowd, arguing that his remarks were “elemental” to the foundation of Holocaust curriculum. “And it’s the notion that hateful words are the product of hateful ideas, and hateful ideas that produce hateful words inevitably produce violence.”

Dowd was fired from MSNBC after remarks he made about Kirk in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. He suggested the shooting was a result of Kirk’s “awful” thoug

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