Obama says the United States faces the “political crisis” after killing Charlie Kirk

Former American president Barack Obama warned against a “political crisis of the genre that we have never seen before” in the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

During an event in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Obama said he did not know Kirk and did not agree with a lot of his opinions, but called the “horrible and a tragedy” murder.

He criticized Donald Trump’s remarks towards his political opponents and underlined the previous Republican presidents who, he said, underlined national unity in moments of high tension, report the American media.

In response, the White House called Obama “the architect of modern political division”.

Kirk, 31, died of a single ball injury while he was speaking at the University of Utah Valley in Orem on September 10.

Tuesday, Tyler Robinson, 22, was officially accused of the murder of Kirk, arms offenses and other accusations. Prosecutors said they would ask for the death penalty.

The lawyer for the county of Utah, Jeffrey Gray, said that Robinson had sent SMS who said he would have shot Kirk because he “had enough of his hatred”.

Before Robinson was captured, Trump’s best allies were blamed for the murder of leftist activists and the rhetoric of Democratic legislators and their supporters.

The Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested that the administration would retract “hate speech” – although there is no specific law on American hate speeches. Vice-president JD Vance led the calls to exhibit people who celebrated or tolerated the murder of Kirk or criticized him after his murder.

“Call them and devil, call their employer,” said Vance when he had hosted the Kirk podcast.

Speaking in Erie, Pennsylvania, Obama said: “I think that in times like this, when tensions are high, then part of the president’s work is to bring people together.”

He urged Americans to “respect others’ right to say things with which we are deeply disagreement”.

Obama congratulated the governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, a conservative republican who, according to him, had shown “that we can not agree while respecting a basic code of the way in which we must engage in a public debate”.

He also approved the response of the Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, a democrat, whose official residence was bombed earlier this year in what the police called a targeted attack.

The former president contrasted these reactions with the comments made by Trump and his allies.

Obama said he had not used a mass shooting in 2015 by a white supremacist in a black church in South Carolina to continue her political enemies, and stressed that after the attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W Bush “explicitly put himself in four to say:” We are not at war with Islam “.”

“And therefore when I hear not only our current president, but his collaborators, who have a story of call for political adversaries” Vermin ‘, enemies who need to be “targeted”, who talks about a broader problem that we have at the moment and something we are going to have to tackle, all of us, “Obama told the crowd, according to reports.

In a statement to the BBC, a White House spokesman rejected allegations and accused Obama from Stoking Division when he was president.

“Obama took advantage of all the opportunities to sow the division and put the Americans against each other,” said the spokesperson.

“His division inspired generations of democrats to slander their opponents as” deplorable “or” fascists “or” Nazis “.

After leaving his duties, the American presidents generally tend to temper the criticisms of their successors, but in recent months, Obama has struck Trump’s movements against universities and judges, and also criticized the leaders of the Democratic Party for not having rejected the White House policies.