Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania on Tuesday strongly condemned all political violence and called for unity and moral clarity following last week's assassination of conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk.

And Shapiro, who survived a firebomb attack against himself and his family at the Pennsylvania governor's mansion in April, also accused President Donald Trump of cherry-picking which violent acts he's condemning in the wake of the murder of Kirk at a college campus event at Utah Valley University.

"Violence in all forms is unacceptable," Shapiro said during an address to the Eradicate Hate Global Summit in Pittsburgh. "Political violence is particularly dangerous. Not only does it seek to injure, maim or kill – it seeks to intimidate, terrorize and silence."

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The Pennsylvania governor in his speech pointed to other high-profile violent political attacks in recent years, including last year's attempted assassination of Trump, and this year's murder of the former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and her husband.

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Trump, in an Oval Office address hours after Kirk was killed, blamed "the radical left."

In interviews Friday on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" and Saturday on NBC News, the president took aim at "a radical left group of lunatics."

And Trump told reporters on Sunday, "When you look at the problems, the problem is on the left. It’s not on the right."

But Shapiro chided Trump, without directly mentioning the president's name.

"During moments like this, I believe we have a responsibility to be clear and unequivocal in calling out all forms of political violence and making clear it is all wrong. That shouldn't be hard to do," the governor said.

And Shapiro lamented, "Unfortunately, some from the dark corners of the internet all the way to the Oval Office want to cherry-pick which instances of political violence they want to condemn."

The governor argued: "Doing that only further divides us, and it makes it harder to heal. There are some who will hear that selective condemnation and take it as a permission slip to commit more violence. So long as it suits their narrative or only targets the other side."

Vice President JD Vance filled in for his "dear friend" Charlie Kirk on his program following last week's assassination of the popular conservative leader.

Livestreaming from his office on Monday, Vance began "The Charlie Kirk Show" by expressing how the last several days "have been hard" for him, his family, the country, those who personally knew Kirk, and especially Kirk's widow Erika and their children. 

"The thing is, every single person in this building, we owe something to Charlie," Vance said. "He was a joyful warrior for our country. He loved America. He devoted himself tirelessly to making our country a better place. He was a critical part of getting Donald Trump elected as president, getting me elected as vice president, and so much of our success over the last seven months is due to his efforts, his staffing, his support and his friendship."

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He continued, "I don't think that I'm alone in saying that Charlie was the smartest political operative I ever met. Everyone knew him as this fearless debater, this guy who would take the conservative message into hostile places and inspire younger generations to have courage. One thing that's hit a lot of those young Americans over the last week was how Charlie was there for them when others were not, when they were afraid to speak their minds, when they were afraid of what a professor would say, when they were afraid that they would be shouted down by their peers. Charlie was there showing them that they could be courageous and that they could be bold."

The vice president went on to call Kirk a "visionary" and a "luminary," crediting him for creating "a whole social network for an entire generation of young people."

"I know people who met their husband, who met their wife, who met the best men at their wedding at a TPUSA event, because, as you guys all know, it's not just about speaking our mind, it's about making friends along the way and creating that support network that won an election and that staffed the current federal government. I owe so much to Charlie," Vance said.

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Vance revealed he had been receiving messages and screenshots of texts Kirk had made to others showing his effort to get Trump to pick Vance as his running mate during the 2024 election, saying how after Kirk advocated for him, he wanted to spend the show "to advocate for Charlie" and what he meant for the conservative movement. 

He praised Erika Kirk's first public remarks last week, saying the country saw "raw grief and incredible courage all in the same moment," insisting "that's what we need right now." He also reflected on an exchange he had with her when he flew to Utah to help escort Kirk's casket to his home in Arizona. 

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"She said to me that Charlie never raised his voice, that he never cussed at her, that he was never cross or mean-spirited to her," Vance said. "And look, I'm a husband. I'm proud of being a husband. I think that, on the great balance of things, that I'm a pretty good husband, but I can never say that I was never unpleasant with my wife. I can never say that I've never raised my voice to my wife. Like most husbands, even the good ones, we're sometimes imperfect. And I took from that moment that I needed to be a better husband, and I needed to be a better father." 

"Because of all these moments that I shared just the last few days, the books that I've read to my kids, going up to their bedroom and kissing them and hugging them before bed, I just realized that all of these moments that I get to have, Charlie is not able to have them anymore, and Charlie's kids and his beautiful wife are not able to have them anymore. And maybe the best way that I can contribute and the best way that I could honor my dear friend is to be the best husband that I can be, to be the kind of husband to my wife that he was to his," he continued. 

"We talked all the time about the most important thing you could do is not vote for a particular candidate, it was to become, if you were a young man, a husband and a father," Vance added. "He talked about the joy that came from fatherhood, the joy that came from raising a family and being part of their growth and their development, and all the incredible things that happen when you get to be a husband and father. And that is the way that I'm going to honor my friend is to be the very best at that most important job that I can be."

Vance spent the rest of the program chatting with top Trump administration officials as well as friends of Kirk to discuss Kirk's towering legacy. More than 250,000 people tuned in on Rumble towards the start of the livestream.

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"Real Time" host Bill Maher urged Americans on Friday to support free speech without conditions to avoid becoming like the United Kingdom, which has greatly increased its enforcement of speech violations over the past few years.

While speaking about freedom-of-speech violations that he felt President Donald Trump committed in recent years, including a proposal to make flag burning punishable by prison time, Maher warned that the United States cannot follow in the footsteps of the U.K.

"This country can't become that, but it also can't become what the UK is now, a place where you get arrested for tweets, something that happens 12,000 times a year now in Britain," he cautioned.

The 12,000 number comes from a stat via the Free Speech Union in Britain. 

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The "Real Time" host cited the arrest of Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan in the U.K. earlier this month as evidence of Britain's crackdown on free speech. Linehan was arrested at London Heathrow Airport last week over several social media posts criticizing transgender activists.

"Last week, the Irish sitcom writer Graham Linehan, who's won an Emmy and five BAFTA awards, got off a plane at Heathrow and got arrested by five British police officers, not because he was selling drones to the Houthis, just because he's a crank who spends way too much time online ranting about gender ideology," he railed.

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Maher continued, noting that there are plenty of "non-crazy people, liberal people" who feel that the left has gone "a little mad" with transgender issues, including author J.K. Rowling and comedian Dave Chappelle.

"Some have expressed that opinion with literary sophistication, like J. K. Rowling. Some by getting big laughs, like Dave Chappelle. And some are downright ugly about it, like Lineham," he said. "But ugly is the price of a freedom so great as speech."

Continuing his point on standing up for free speech, even offensive speech, he brought up the arrest of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil over his pro-Palestinian activism on campus.

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Maher argued that while he found Khalil's anti-Israel op-ed published in the school's newspaper offensive, he would still "go to the mat for that person to be able to print it."

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Fox News' Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.

A former Michigan prosecutor was blasted online for suggesting Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was responsible for his own assassination Wednesday because of his pro-Second Amendment stance.

Carol Siemon, who in 2022 stepped down as the top prosecutor in Ingham County, which includes much of Lansing, Michigan's state capital, mocked Kirk’s lifelong defense of gun rights.

"I’m terribly sorry when anyone is shot," Siemon wrote on X. "But I’m sure he doesn’t mind because he has said that shootings and gun deaths are a price he is willing to pay for nearly unfettered abilities to possess and use firearms. I support sensible firearm control, and perhaps he will too."

Siemon, who did not respond to a request for comment, appears to have deleted her account.

Kirk, 31, was shot and killed Wednesday while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.  The conservative activist and father of two young children had been leading his American Comeback Tour and was taking questions from supporters and detractors when he ws killed. 

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But while tributes to Kirk poured in from fans and colleagues across the world, Siemon's remarks quickly drew fire. Former Michigan House Speaker and current gubernatorial candidate Tom Leonard blasted her statement as "politicizing the murder of a young father and husband."

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He said it was "rich coming from a prosecutor that refused to prosecute gun crimes, making Lansing one of the most dangerous cities in the country during your time in office."

Siemon was elected in 2016 as the county’s first female prosecutor and later was criticized over her soft-on-crime record as well as clashes with law enforcement and the judiciary. 

In 2019, she allowed Anthony McRae, later responsible for the 2023 Michigan State University mass shooting that left three dead and five injured, to plead a felony gun charge down to a misdemeanor. 

That decision meant McRae avoided jail time and kept his ability to purchase firearms.

In 2022, Ingham County Judge Rosemarie Aquilina rejected a plea deal Siemon struck for convicted murderer Kiernan Brown, accusing the prosecutor of "trying to be creative to get around the law" and publicly calling for her resignation.

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