PBS Washington Week: After Kirk’s Murder, Trump Using Govt. to ‘Crack Down on Dissent’
23rd September 2025
Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic featured regular roundtable journalist Vivian Salama of The Atlantic sitting in as moderator for Jeffrey Goldberg, and the topic was the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, or rather, the GOP’s supposedly frightening and hypocritical reactions to Kirk’s assassination.
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Asma Khalid, another regular panelist now with the BBC, at least summarized the offensive thing Kimmel actually said, though without noting its falsehood (Kirk’s killer was a recently radicalized leftist).
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Guest host Salama took it further, perverting the failure of universities to protect the rights of Jewish students, into a crackdown on “dissent,” as if being nasty toward an assassination victim and attacking Jews on campus were just examples of peaceful protest.