FROM DAILY MAIL: Utah governor Spencer Cox basked in praise for his ‘unity’ plea at Friday’s FBI press conference — but the man whose alleged assassin he was discussing once wanted him expelled from the Republican Party.
Cox dominated the podium detailing Charlie Kirk’s murder just three years after the TPUSA founder branded him a ‘weak moderate’ who ‘should be expelled from the Republican party’. The 2022 social media blast came after Cox vetoed a bill banning biological males from women’s sports — a move that infuriated Kirk and conservative activists.
Now friends of the slain activist find it ‘ironic’ that the same governor Kirk wanted kicked out of the GOP pushed aside FBI officials to control the narrative around his death. The feud ran deeper: Cox also threatened to veto a statewide ban on transgender surgeries for minors, prompting Kirk to accuse him of being ‘paid off by Big Pharma who make billions off hormone blockers and chemical castration’.
Yet, on Friday, Cox remarkably claimed he was “inspired by Kirk’s writings and beliefs.”
The governor’s sudden reverence for Kirk, who had blasted him for corruption, felt hollow to people familiar with their bitter public feud.
“My young friends out there, you are inheriting a country where politics feels like rage. It feels like rage is the only option. But through those words, we have a reminder that we can choose a different path,” Cox lectured, telling young people that “social media is a cancer.”
“I would urge people to log off, turn off, and touch grass,” he suggested, even as Kirk had used social media to meet and influence his fans.
“Spencer Cox is a national embarrassment—in a time where we need action, he tells us to sing Kumbaya and hold hands with ANTIFA,” conservative leader Steve Bannon said. “While the good and decent Charlie Kirk lies in a mortuary awaiting burial, he tells us to invite Democrats over for a cookout—the radical Left that burns Portland daily and shoots up school kids weekly.
“This is not a time for treacly pontificating—this is a time to declare ANTIFA a domestic terrorist organization and have the FBI go kick down some doors.”
MAGA political and legal journalist Julie Kelly said, “It came across as grandstanding to me.
“I don’t know why an elected political figure should be the face of such a critical investigation and something so important that we get right.
“I don’t need to be lectured by Spencer Cox about how we should feel, think, or act.”
She called Cox’s speech “very off-putting.”
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