BURSTUtah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) said Sunday that conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated Wednesday, “said some very inflammatory things” but “also said some other things about forgiveness.”
“Charlie said some very inflammatory things, and some — in some corners of the web that’s all people have heard,” Cox told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”
“But he also said some other things about forgiveness,” he added. “He said — He said some amazing things about when things get dark, putting down our phones, reading scripture, going to church, talking to our neighbors. He said that we have to engage, and that's what I appreciate most about Charlie Kirk.”
Earlier this week, Kirk was talking at an outdoor event at a university campus in Orem, Utah, when he was shot and killed. Following a manhunt featuring state, local and federal law enforcement, officials identified the alleged suspect as Tyler Robinson, 22, of Utah.
On Thursday, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) said he will attempt to have social media companies put lifetime bans on users who celebrated the assassination of Kirk.
“I’m going to use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk,” Higgins said on the social platform X.
“If they ran their mouth with their smarta– hatred celebrating the heinous murder of that beautiful young man who dedicated his whole life to delivering respectful conservative truth into the hearts of liberal enclave universities, armed only with a Bible and a microphone and a Constitution… those profiles must come down,” he added.