Trump Falsely Claims Dems ‘Voted Against’ Charlie Kirk Bill In Oval Office Rant

President Donald Trump railed against Democrats in the Oval Office and falesly claimed that they “voted against” a resolution “condemning the political assassination of Charlie Kirk.”

Trump spoke for an hour during a photo op in the Oval Office Friday, during which he opened by attacking Democrats with a string of false or incendiary claims, including the falsehood that the Democrats voted against the Kirk resolution, which he also falsely characterized as solely a condemnation of the killing:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Everything is going well, but the Democrats are unhappy about that because they don’t want it to go well. I think they actually dislike our country greatly.

So they want to shut down the country. They want to have open borders. They wanna stop the fighting of crime, where we’ve been very successful.

The D.C., as you know, Washington, D. C., is a hot place right now. Everyone’s having dinners. They’re out of all over this. Very little crime, they haven’t seen numbers like this in many, many years.

And other places, as you know, we’re going into Memphis, we’ll soon be going into Chicago. We’ve already had people out there and in there, and FBI has been there, we’ve put the numbers down, but we’re gonna be bringing them down a whole lot.

But I guess they want crime and we fight crime, and it’s a pretty big difference.

They want to have men play in women’s sports. They want transgender for everybody.

And if they don’t get everything that they want, all these things that they want that are proven so badly, they want to close our government down.

Uh, we’re not going to let bad things happen to our country. We’re not gonna approve things that we shouldn’t be approving.

Just today, the House Democrats voted against condemning the political assassination of Charlie Kirk.

. Uh, who could vote against that? The condemning, all they’re saying, please condemn the assassination of a human being. And they said, no, then we’re not going do that.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and 37 other Democrats voted against the resolution, which did a lot more than condemn the killing of Kirk.

In fact, AOC explained her vote by saying “condemning the depravity of Kirk’s brutal murder is a straightforward matter…We can disagree with Charlie and come together as a country to denounce the horror of killing. That is a bedrock American value.”

But 95 Democrats voted for the measure, which passed overwhelmingly, meaning more than twice as many Democrats voted for it than voted against it.

Watch above via The White House.