Pritzker making his comments on Kirk on Wednesday
Washington Post editorial: “a disgracefully ill-timed comment” by Pritzker
By Mark Glennon | Wirepoints
Here’s what JB Pritzker said Wednesday about the murder of Charlie Kirk:
“It’s got to stop. And I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president’s rhetoric often foments it. We’ve seen the January 6 rioters who clearly have tripped a new era of political violence. And the president, what did he do? He pardoned them. I mean, what kind of signal does that send to people who want to perpetrate political violence? Not a good one.”
Even the Washington Post editorial board couldn’t stomach that, writing, ”Though Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) decried the violence, he couldn’t help himself from taking a dig at Trump. ‘I think the president’s rhetoric often foments it,’ he said, a disgracefully ill-timed comment.
Other condemnations of Pritzker are flooding social media.
What makes this more extraordinary is that Pritzker’s words have been among the most incendiary in American political history.
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