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He did not say the shooter was a MAGA conservative.

For further context, he said that the right was doing everything in their power to portray him as anything but one of them. I.e. in the absence of evidence they were attempting to pin the blame on the left.

You are correct, and it's important that we don't continue the game of telephone that seems to be destroying this country.

"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it."

This was his exact quote and he's 100% right. The entire admin had called out the "Radical left" as the perpetrators before we even had a photo of the shooter. Can we please go back towards the reality where we actually read and understand the words being said instead of having them all parroted to us by media headlines?

True, but I guess I could see how people hearing it might read it that way. The general debate was between the shooter being a left winger or a right winger. He said they were wrong about him not being a right winger.

He didn't even necessarily say they were wrong about it. He just emphasized that their top priority was making sure they could score points from it:

> We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it. In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.

He didn't say that either technically. He said the right was trying very hard to make it look like the guy was not MAGA, which was true. Before any information was known, the right was claiming he was trans, a Democrat, whatever, and saying they had to go to war with the left, etc.

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