MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Spends 22 Seconds On ‘Horrific’ Charlie Kirk Killing In First Show Since Shooting

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow devoted just 22 seconds of her show to the killing of Charlie Kirk in her first show since the shooting, using its aftermath as one of many examples in a litany condemning President Donald Trump as a “right-wing strongman.”

The killing of Charlie Kirk and the manhunt that ended in the arrest of suspect Tyler Robinson have dominated the news media since the shooting unfolded live last Wednesday. Kirk’s name has been mentioned thousands of times on the big three cable news networks since Wednesday, including over 800 examples on MSNBC alone.

But on Monday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, viewers of the tentpole star’s first episode of her weekly program since the shooting got only a short mention of the shooting, which Maddow called “horrific.”

Rather than devote even a single segment to the shooting itself, Maddow referenced the Trump administration’s threatened “crackdown” as part of a marathon commentary on “Dear Leader” Trump:

RACHEL MADDOW: Hey, once you`ve got an enemies list, no reason to keep it short.

Another headline today, quote, White House plans broad crackdown on liberal groups. They`re saying now they will use the horrific murder of pro-Trump activist Charlie Kirk last week as a justification for some undefined whole of government attack on what they always describe very vaguely as the left in this country.

Whatever else you think about what Trump is trying to do in office, there is no drama, right? There`s no uncertainty. There`s no ambiguity about the agenda, right? It is the textbook agenda of every right-wing strongman everywhere, right? They all do the same thing.

You — they tell people there is an enemy, an enemy within that demands emergency measures, right? There`s an enemy within that`s nefarious and is responsible for all the terrible things. And so therefore, we must have emergency powers and toughness, and we must take off the gloves and break the rules, right? That`s textbook stuff.

Watch above via MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show.