Michael Fanone Shreds Donald Trump’s Charlie Kirk Assassination Response

Michael Fanone, a former D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer who was attacked by a mob of Donald Trump supporters through the lethal Capitol riot, slammed the president on Tuesday over his response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

“I believe that no American politician has carried out extra to normalize political violence on this nation apart from Donald J. Trump,” stated Fanone in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.

Trump — in a video message from the Oval Workplace after the killing of his ally final week — ripped those on the “radical left” who’ve in contrast Kirk to a Nazi, claiming that their rhetoric is “immediately accountable for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our nation in the present day.”

Fanone stated he’s “disgusted” that Individuals reelected a president who’s been “so divisive and so harmful,” including that Trump has used the killing to “sow extra seeds of division” and advocate for violence as a substitute of uniting the nation.

Fanone — who sustained a coronary heart assault in addition to a traumatic mind damage after being overwhelmed and tased by the violent mob through the rebel — emphasised that the president has a historical past of utilizing “inciteful” and “dehumanizing” language to explain dissenters and political opponents.

In 2023, Trump echoed Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini when he vowed to “root out … vermin” political foes, declaring that the “menace from outdoors forces is much much less sinister, harmful, and grave, than the menace from inside.”

Fanone argued that Trump has additional advocated for the usage of “political violence” by pardoning hundreds of rioters who had been convicted of assaulting officers on Jan. 6, 2021.

“He has instructed his supporters that in the event you commit acts of violence, I’ve obtained your again and this administration will absolve you of any prison culpability,” he stated.

“And that message has resonated along with his supporters.”