‘Completely Unacceptable’: Pete Hegseth Says Department of War ‘Tracking’ All Military Personnel Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Murder

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth responded to incidents of U.S. military personnel celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk on Thursday, warning that the department was “tracking” everyone engaging in such behavior.

“It is unacceptable for military personnel and Department of War civilians to celebrate or mock the assassination of a fellow American,” said chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell after several incidents of U.S. military personnel celebrating Kirk’s murder were recorded online. “The Department of War has zero tolerance for it.”

In his own statement, Hegseth declared, “We are tracking all these very closely — and will address, immediately. Completely unacceptable.”

Several instances of military personnel and Department of War citizen employees celebrating Kirk’s murder were recorded on social media this week, including a U.S. Army major and a U.S. Army sergeant.

“He got what he deserved,” wrote one social media user, whose profile indicated that he worked at the Department of War.

Another social media user who claimed to be a teacher at the Department of War called Kirk “a garbage human,” said she wouldn’t “mourn him for one second,” and warned things would have to get even more “violent” to “change this dumpster fire of a country.”

Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason confessed on Thursday that his department had “no idea” where Kirk’s killer was more than 24 hours after the Turning Point USA founder was assassinated at Utah Valley University.

The department did, however, release several photos of a “person of interest” wearing sunglasses and a disabled veterans T-shirt.