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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mike Bedigan

Obama says America is at ‘inflection point’ in first public remarks after Charlie Kirk assassination

Barack Obama has said that the U.S. is “at an inflection point” after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and appeared to accuse Donald Trump and his allies of stirring political division.

Speaking Wednesday at a non-profit event in Erie, Pennsylvania, the former president said that while political violence was “not new” in America, it was “anathema to what it means to be a Democratic country.”

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