Maddow Gave Kirk 22 Seconds; WH Calls It ‘Pathetic’

The White House slammed MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow on Wednesday for devoting just 22 seconds on her weekly show to the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk.

In her first program on Monday since Kirk’s murder last week in Utah, Maddow addressed a New York Times report about White House plans to crack down on a “nondescript left-wing network” that President Donald Trump suggested radicalized 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson, the Daily Mail reported. Her segment focused on what she described as Trump’s “strongman” politics.

“They’re saying now they will use the horrific murder of pro-Trump leader Charlie Kirk last week as a justification for some undefined whole-of-government attack on what they always describe very vaguely as the left in this country,” she said.

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