FOX News contributor Mollie Hemingway reacts to the public support for the assassination of Charlie Kirk in an interview with FOX News host Laura Ingraham. “I think a really important first step would be for the media to acknowledge that Donald Trump is a legitimate president, that his supporters are legitimate,” Hemingway told Ingraham. “And I actually don’t think it stops though, unless the power of the state is used to deconstruct these left-wing terror networks. Look into their funding. I mean, I was pleased to see that that’s happening, but people need to take it seriously before things get much worse.”

LAURA INGRAHAM: Mollie, the fact is this has been normalized and accepted and encouraged, so that’s why they thought they could mess around and find out, to put it nicely. MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Well, we’ve had many years now of a lot of corporate media and even prominent Democrats saying that they could not normalize Republicans, they couldn’t normalize Donald Trump. LAURA INGRAHAM: He was subhuman. MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Right. And, and, you know, you had President Biden give that really awful speech where he declared half of the country was, you know, beneath contempt. Really bad behavior that has led people to think that it was okay to do this. There are many reasons why you cannot tolerate public support for the assassination of a citizen for his political… LAURA INGRAHAM: How is this not cancel culture, then, Mollie? MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: People say it’s cancel culture, which usually refers to when a teenager tweeted something and then ten years later he gets fired, or someone makes a joke that’s misunderstood, you know, something like that. Public support for assassination of U.S. citizens for their political beliefs is actually just on its face immoral. You cannot, you cannot tolerate that. There also are all sorts of other reasons. Shows an inability to control oneself that employers really aren’t going to want to see in, you know, teachers, doctors. Obviously no member of the military can support the assassination of, of conservatives because they don’t like their political beliefs. That is a total violation of their oath. So I think actually it’s important that people understand that things have gone way too far and there needs to be a correction. And I do think most of the country is unified against this left-wing terrorism, but — LAURA INGRAHAM: I, I, I think you’re right, however, Ari, and I want you in on this. I do believe that there is a core group of hateful, well-connected individuals who are extremely influential, who behind closed doors, I can’t imagine what they’d say behind closed doors, but in public they were celebrating this. And I don’t think we should sweep it under the rug and just say, oh, it’s just a, they’re popping off. It’s a, you know, and I’m not saying you were doing that at all, but I’m just saying this, this is a sickness that has been encouraged and fed by our culture and our highest ranking politicians. ARI FLESICHER: That core group is led by Democratic leaders and that’s the problem. They didn’t come out and advocate or endorse murder, but what they did do is call Donald Trump a fascist. When asked point blank, Kamala Harris said he is a fascist. Her vice presidential running mate said the same thing. Joe Biden said he’s an existential threat to democracy. These are the types of things that politicians say that has got to stop. LAURA INGRAHAM: Mollie, is it going to stop? MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Well, I think a really important first step would be for the media to acknowledge that Donald Trump is a legitimate president, that his supporters are legitimate. And I actually don’t think it stops though, unless the power of the state is used to deconstruct these left-wing terror networks. Look into their funding. I mean, I was pleased to see that that’s happening, but people need to take it seriously before things get much worse. LAURA INGRAHAM: Disassemble them one by one.

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