Trump hopes Charlie Kirk’s shooter gets the death penalty

US President, Donald Trump said this morning, September 12, that he hopes that Charlie Kirk’s killer gets the death penalty.

 

The president who announced during an interview on “Fox & Friends” that authorities have a suspect in custody — called Kirk “the finest person,” while blasting the shooter, who law enforcement has not yet named.

“Well, I hope — he’s going to be found guilty, I would imagine — and I hope he gets the death penalty. “What he did, Charlie Kirk, he was the finest person that, he didn’t deserve this. He worked so hard and so well, everybody liked him.” Trump said

Later in the interview, he added that Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has signaled he’d seek the penalty for Kirk’s shooter.

“In Utah, they have the death penalty, and you have a very good governor there. The governor, I’ve gotten to know him, the governor is very intent on the death penalty in this case.” Trump added

Pressed if Kirk’s shooting was a “one-off,” isolated case, Trump said it “appears to be.”

The president also said he hadn’t watched video of Kirk’s death after several clips of Kirk’s shooting on the Utah Valley University campus were posted on social media.

“I didn’t want to watch, I heard about it. I would have never made a good doctor, let me put it that way. I mean, I heard, I heard enough — I didn’t want to watch it, I didn’t want to I didn’t want to remember Charlie that way.” Trump concluded