Dave Portnoy Declares Trump Played ‘Huge Part’ in Kirk Assassination By Being ‘Divisive’

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said Thursday that President Donald Trump played a “huge part” in conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

“Politics definitely has a huge part in it. Trump — and when I say Trump has a huge part in it, I don’t necessarily mean he’s to blame for it — but he’s so divisive, without even really — his face is just divisive. Like, he just — people hate him so much,” Portnoy said.

“And the left and the right, the rhetoric — especially to me the left — is insane. And it just boils, boils, boils, boils. And this happened with Trump, when, his assassination attempt, there was like a three-hour period of ‘let’s tone down the rhetoric,’ and then they’re right back to it.”

Portnoy has said he voted for Donald Trump, although he admitted his vote was more of an “indictment” of the Democratic Party rather than an endorsement of the right.

In April, Portnoy ranted against Trump after the president’s economic policies allegedly caused the podcaster to lose some $20 million.

Portnoy made some waves shortly after Kirk’s assassination by claiming it was “one of the darkest days in American history.”

“RIP Charlie Kirk. It doesn’t matter what your opinion is of Charlie or his politics if you don’t view this as one of the darkest days in American history than you are part of the problem,” he wrote on X.

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