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Bulwark Takes

Gov. Cox Preaches Peace. Trump Demands Revenge

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Two Republicans, two very different responses to Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Spencer Cox called for unity and calm. Donald Trump doubled down on rage, declaring Democrats “sick” and elections “rigged.” Will Saletan shows why the difference matters.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:25.9

conservative activist, was murdered in Utah on Wednesday. He was shot by a sniper,

0:30.9

and everybody's pretty shocked, and there's been a lot of very angry reaction.

0:36.0

I want to show you two of those reactions, not a Democrat and a Republican,

0:40.1

but two Republicans, Donald Trump and Spencer Cox, the governor of Utah. Here's Governor

0:47.4

Cox speaking to the media on Wednesday. We've had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted

1:00.6

assassination on the governor of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a

1:10.1

presidential candidate and former president of the United States.

1:13.5

So Cox named three recent assassinations or attempted assassinations. Trump, two legislators

1:21.7

in Minnesota and the governor of Pennsylvania. Those targets in Minnesota and Pennsylvania were Democrats. Cox is

1:30.7

sending a message that what happened to Charlie Kirk is not just a left-wing problem. It's a problem

1:36.7

of political violence on both sides. Now watch what Trump said on the same day about the same attack on Charlie Kirk.

1:47.0

From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ice agents, to the vicious murder of a health care executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority Leader, Steve Scalise, and three others.

2:05.5

Radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people

2:09.3

and taken too many lives.

2:11.6

So Trump's list of people who have been targeted is himself,

2:16.5

ICE agents, the CEO of United Health, and the Republican

2:20.9

majority leader in the House, all committed by people on the left or aimed at people on the

2:27.1

right. And Trump says the problem is specifically radical left violence. He's erasing all the attacks committed against people on the left or by

2:37.8

people on the right. Governor Cox, a conservative Republican, does not erase those attacks. He says

2:44.7

MAGA Republicans, not just the radical left, need to reject violence, which he says is what Charlie Kirk taught him.

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