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What Does It Mean that Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Killer was a Utahn?

RadioWest

KUER

Society & Culture

4.7772 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In a recent press conference, Utah Governor Spencer Cox warned of political violence metastasizing in this country. The journalist McKay Coppins described it as a kind of sermon.

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In a press conference last week about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Utah Governor

0:31.4

Spencer Cox offered some remarks about political division that have gotten a lot of attention.

0:37.4

And in some part, it's probably

0:39.4

because they're seen as a contrast from what we've been hearing from other leaders like President

0:43.6

Trump. The governor said the problem with political violence is that we can always point to someone

0:48.9

on the other side. And so in that sense, the violence, the impulse for it, metastasizes.

0:56.0

The governor talked about trying to find an off-ramp for this kind of rhetoric.

1:02.3

I think we need more moral clarity right now.

1:06.2

I hear all the time that words are violence.

1:09.6

Words are not violence.

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Violence is violence.

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There is one person responsible

1:15.7

for what happened here.

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And that person is now in custody

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and will be charged soon

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and will be held accountable.

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And yet all of us have an opportunity right now to do something different.

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