Dhillon to Newsmax: MSNBC Guest’s Kirk Shooting Analysis ‘Shameful’

Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, tore into MSNBC because a guest floated what she called the “stupidest thing” she’s ever heard regarding the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

In an appearance on Newsmax in the aftermath of Kirk’s shooting death, Dhillon dismissed a suggestion by a guest on the liberal network that the suspect might have been a supporter firing off celebratory shots during his event in Utah.

“Utah is not the, you know, tribes and, you know, mountains of Afghanistan where people do that,” Dhillon told “The Chris Salcedo Show.” “We don’t shoot our guns off in celebration in the United States at a debate.

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