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How Democrats Lost Their Right To Complain About Misinformation

One in three Dems believes Charlie Kirk's assassin was right wing

Sep 25, 2025
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In what has to be the dumbest, most self-defeating conspiracy theory since the long form birth certificate of Barack Obama, one in three Democrats maintains that Taylor Robinson, the assassin of Charlie Kirk, is a card-carrying member of the political right who wore a MAGA hat.

Propagated by thoughtless thought-leaders on the left, most infamously un-canceled late night host Jimmy Kimmel, this fantastical cope puts Democrats out of step with the broader public. It will not survive the trials of a courtroom or historical review. It is political poison. To use a word that Kimmel helped mainstream, it is misinformation.


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