Former president describes a ‘dangerous moment’ in the US, following White House response to shootings of Kirk and Melissa Hortman
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”.
This article was amended on 17 September 2025. A previous version misspelled the name of Melissa Hortman.
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