‘Good Morning Britain’ Guest: I’m Not Going to Justify Charlie Kirk’s Murder, But He Was ‘the David Duke of the TikTok Age’

‘Political violence must be condemned, as must be the propagandizing of political violence and the dehumanization of people’

EXCERPT:

ABBEY: “Can I just say something? I don't agree it was a Cicero for the TikTok age, I believe it was a David Duke for the TikTok age, and I have some degree.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE: “Can you just remind us who David Duke is?”
ABBEY: “David Duke was the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan --”
UNKNOWN FEMALE: “Oh, right. OK.”
ABBEY: “That this was a very seriously -- now, I -- this isn't by no means trying to justify his murder. Political violence is wrong at home, it is wrong abroad. It is wrong -- and it's also wrong, political violence must be condemned, as must be the propagandizing for political violence and the dehumanization of people. Charlie Kirk was somebody who was -- I shiver, particularly for conservatives, when he's described as a conservative, because he wasn't a conservative by any means whatsoever. He was quite clearly, comfortably a supremacist.”

 

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