The media turned the New Zealand white supremacist terrorist attack into a referendum on President Trump.

Kirsten Gillibrand experiences predictable failure to launch, and President Trump goes wild on Twitter.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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West Coast time, there was this horrible evil terrorist attack in New Zealand. A white

supremacist goes to two mosques and shoots and kills now 50 people. The death toll has been

raised to 50. And the entire West mourns because this is an act of evil.

And this, as I said last week, should be a moment of unity because when there are tremendous

acts of evil, then we should at least grant the credibility that the vast majority of human

beings in the West are saddened by an act of evil and are not sympathetic to the killer.

How many people did you see who are sympathetic to the evil white supremacist murderer on Friday?

Did you see any?

They're really pretty much nobody, pretty much nobody.

Yet the media decided that this was an opportune moment to push a political narrative.

And this is one of the worst aspects about

our polarized politics. That is, whenever there is a flashpoint, whenever there's an incident,

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