Trump’s Threats Darken on Fox News as MAGA Rage over Kirk Boils Over

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In an appalling move, President Trump went on Fox News and openly suggested that far-right political violence is typically justified as a response to left-wing extremism. This functionally tells Trump supporters that it is now open season on the liberal-left after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Trump also signaled he will use the power of the state to exact retribution on Trump-MAGA's designated scapegoats for Kirk’s killing. This comes as eruptions of MAGA fury over Kirk’s death, including calls for mass violence, are rising to alarming levels, making Trump’s encouragement even more depraved. We talked to Will Sommer, who closely tracks the far right as a staff writer for The Bulwark. He discusses how far-right individuals and groups will take Trump’s signals as “sanction,” notes the “all-consuming anger” he’s seeing, and suggests we may see more organized violence coming from those precincts going forward. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	I'm your host, Greg Sargent. Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old man from Utah, has been arrested for allegedly
0:46.0	assassinating right-wing activist and influencer Charlie Kirk.
0:50.1	As of this recording, people on all sides of the political spectrum have been ransacking the
0:54.8	internet to try to assemble a picture of Robinson's views and motives, and it's murky going.
1:00.6	But one thing is not murky, President Donald Trump is signaling very clearly that he's going
1:05.7	to seize on this horrific killing to wage open warfare on the liberal left, and many of his top supporters are 100% there
1:12.8	with him. It appears very clear as of right now that Tyler Robinson's actual views and motives
1:18.9	don't matter on this equation at all. Whatever has learned about him over time, the decision
1:24.9	to exploit this shooting has already been made. We're talking about this
1:28.9	with one of our favorite analysts of the far right, The Bull Works Will Summer. Will, thanks for
1:33.8	coming on, man. Thanks for having me. So we're recording this on a Friday afternoon. By the time
1:40.0	people hear this on Monday morning, some of the info might be outdated. Apologies for that.
1:45.2	But Will, what can you tell us about Tyler Robinson's views and motives as of this moment?
1:50.6	Yeah, well, really, you know, pretty much everything we're getting here is coming from law enforcement.
1:54.5	And so there hasn't been, you know, I think in part because he had such a generic name,
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