“Don’t know what this kid is”: Maher rejects Shapiro claim that Kirk shooter was a leftist

The political class of the United States has been in a wine glass two people talking situation since Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on the campus of Utah Valley University Depending on who you talk to Kirk was either a proponent of hateful far-right ideology or a paragon of the idea of open debate He was killed for that by a gunman who was either a left-wing radical a far-right groyper or a brain-rotted young man with no discernible ideology Ben Shapiro and Bill Maher debated the facts of the shooting on Friday night during an episode of HBO s Real Time Kirk s fellow online conservative felt that the suspected shooter was a Marxist while the aging liberal crank countered that the only thing he was certain of was our own uncertainty Related After Charlie Kirk s murder what lies ahead could be terrible If we are not politically correct then we understand if there s a shooting at a synagogue it s very likely to be either a white supremacist or a radical Muslim Shapiro noted If it s the shooting of a Republican politician then it s very likely to be a trans antifa Marxist shooting It s two days out We don t know s t Ben Maher countered We don t know s t They never do The internet is undefeated in getting it wrong to begin with Maher then listed off all the incorrect information he d encountered about the suspect since his identity was revealed First I heard he s a registered Republican Not true Then he was a donor to Trump Not true His father works in the sheriff s office Not true There was a picture of him wearing a pro-Trump shirt Not true A member of the Democratic Socialists of America Not true Maher reported We don t know what he is Maher went on to stress that certain of the seemingly left-wing phrases that were reportedly detected on bullet casings at the scene could also be references to memes popular among followers of far-right commentator Nick Fuentes Watch Maher and Shapiro debate below via YouTube Read more about this topic Widowed and resolute Erika Kirk honors Charlie Kirk Why everyone s suddenly talking about Groypers America is in danger of becoming numb to violence The post Don t know what this kid is Maher rejects Shapiro claim that Kirk shooter was a leftist appeared first on Salon com