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Edward Helmore

Obama says Trump deepened US divide in rush to ‘identify enemy’ after Charlie Kirk shooting

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Barack Obama campaigns in support of Kamala Harris, at the Baird Center on 3 November 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Barack Obama addressed the recent killing of Charlie Kirk and told a crowd in Pennsylvania on Tuesday the country was “at an inflection point”, but that political violence “is not new” and “has happened at certain periods” in US history.

Obama added that despite history, political violence was “anathema to what it means to be a democratic country”.

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