Obama Implies Trump to Blame for Kirk Assassination

“Even if you think they’re quote unquote on the other side of the argument, that’s a threat to all of us and we have to be clear and forthright and condemn it,” Obama said during the Jefferson Educational Society’s global summit Tuesday night.

“But I’ll say this — those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind them,” he claimed, according to the Erie Times-News.

“When we have the weight of the United States government behind extremist views, we’ve got a problem.

“And so your original question was, ‘are we at an inflection point?’ We’re at an inflection point in the sense that we always have to fight for our democracy and we have to fight for those values that have made this country the envy of the world,” Obama said, answering an audience member.

Obama, 64, argued that his administration and other Republicans who held the Oval Office or ran against him – like former President George Bush, and GOP presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney — were more focused on bringing the country together than Trump.

“When I hear not just our current president, but his aides, who have a history of calling political opponents vermin, enemies, who need to be ‘targeted,’ that speaks to a broader problem that we have right now and something that we’re going to have to grapple with, all of us,” he said inside the Erie Insurance Arena.

Obama urged the public to “extend grace” to those mourning the shocking act of violence as many people have been lambasted —some even fired from their jobs — for cheering Kirk’s demise.

“I didn’t know Charlie Kirk,” Obama said. “I was generally aware of some of his ideas. I think those ideas were wrong, but that doesn’t negate the fact that what happened was a tragedy.

“I mourn for him and his family. He was a young man with two small children and a wife, who obviously had a huge number of friends and supporters who cared about him.”