Far-left Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker went far beyond offering condolences.
He pinned the blame for the deadly assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk squarely on Donald Trump, invoking the January 6th Capitol riot as a violent precursor.
Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was fatally shot on Wednesday during a public event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
The shooting occurred around 12:10 p.m. (MDT), with the gunshot reportedly fired from a building about 200 yards away.
Though an individual was initially detained, authorities later confirmed that no suspect had been taken into custody, and the shooter remains at large.
During a press conference earlier today, Pritzker couldn’t resist injecting his toxic partisan poison into the conversation. Here’s what the far-left governor had to spew:
“That’s my sympathy to Charlie Kirk’s family and to Charlie Kirk, who obviously has become a target for somebody. I don’t know whether it’s political violence because I don’t know who did it.
I know they seem to have somebody in custody. But I will say that political violence, unfortunately, has been ratcheting up in this country. We saw the shootings, the killings in Minnesota.
We’ve seen other political violence occur in other states. I would just say it’s got to stop. 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 sixth rioters who clearly have tripped a new era of political violence.”
WATCH:
JB Pritzker just blamed Charlie Kirk being shot in Utah on President Trump and January 6th.
Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/7MDmvPq66q
— David Santa Carla (@TheOnlyDSC) September 10, 2025
[Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com]