How Trump is seizing on Charlie Kirk’s killing for a campaign of vengeance
by David Smith in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#705XM)
The Trump administration is trying to harness outrage over the rightwing activist's killing to crush dissent, experts say
They will gather to mourn one of their own. On Sunday the late rightwing activist Charlie Kirk is set to be hailed by Donald Trump as a martyr of the Make America great again (Maga) movement.
But Kirk's memorial service at a 63,000-seat football stadium in Arizona could, critics fear, be exploited by the US president to serve a darker purpose: turning collective grief into a campaign of vengeance against America's enemy within.
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