Leftist: If You Wanted Kirk Alive, You Shouldn’t Have Elected Trump

A leftist commentator known for celebrating political violence against Christians and conservatives suggested on-air this week that Charlie Kirk’s assassination only happened because Americans chose to re-elect President Donald Trump.

“If you wanted Charlie Kirk to be alive, Donald Trump shouldn’t have been president for the second term,” Steven Kenneth Bonnell II, an online gaming streamer who goes by “Destiny,” declared Monday on Piers Morgan Uncensored.

The admission comes less than one week after a shooter murdered Kirk on his American Comeback Tour stop at Utah Valley University and less than 15 months after two separate assassination attempts on Trump.

Despite the fact that Republicans have increasingly become targets of radicals who wish them harm, the streamer spent the rest of his time trying to shift blame to Trump for allegedly failing to turn down the temperature.

“Why can’t the president say we should all be less violent?” Destiny baited.

Host Piers Morgan scolded Destiny for trying to “condemn” others while still refusing to “condemn a cold-blooded murder.”

“Basic humanity says the murder was horrific. Why can’t you say it? Just say the murder was horrific and unacceptable,” Morgan implored over the protests of his guest.

Instead, Destiny demanded that Trump “say it” because, according to him, “Democrats have been saying this for over a decade.”

Democrats certainly have weighed in on political violence over the last 10 or so years. More specifically, they’ve fomented it.

Over the last decade alone, the blue party has solicited physical harm against their political enemies, pledged insurrection, threatened Republican-nominated Supreme Court justices, and even facilitated an assassination prep campaign that resulted in two failed attempts on Trump before he was re-elected.

They’ve yet to face any accountability for their key role in adding fuel to the fire. In fact, the minuscule consequences some are facing for rejoicing over Kirk’s murder — losing their jobs — are lamented by Democrats and their allies in the corporate media.

Much like Democrats, Destiny also has a long, documented history of encouraging and even celebrating political violence against Christians and conservatives.

A few weeks before Kirk’s assassination, Destiny told CNN that he hated the Turning Point USA founder and called him a “Satan spawn.”

He doubled down on his vitriol for the Kirk family on Monday when he mocked Erika Kirk and accused Turning Point USA and Republicans of “weaponizing a widow’s grief to try and do recruitment for your political party.”

In a stream shortly after Kirk’s assassination, Destiny declared “you need conservatives to be afraid of getting killed when they go to events so they look to their leadership to turn down the temperature.”

“Right now, they don’t feel like there’s any fear. I don’t know. I don’t know. It’s just like memes,” he claimed.

Destiny has also publicly and repeatedly aired his hatred for Trump voters. He says he “doesn’t give a f-ck” if people at Trump rallies, such as hero father and firefighter Corey Comperatore, are shot and killed. In fact, Destiny committed to “making fun of” anyone else who dies at a Trump rally as soon as the day after their death.

In various streams, Destiny also called conservatives “disgusting” and said they should be “excised from this country.”

“Like I’ve moved full on to the political violence level or the real violence level when it comes to conservative people,” Destiny remarked.

Thinkers and talking heads on the right such as Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Tim Pool, the gamer suggested, should be “permanently removed” from the public square. In a separate video, Destiny fantasized about pleasuring himself to “subhuman, f-cking piece of sh-t” Devin Nunes after watching people “f-cking hang him on TV.”

“He deserves to die for f-cking treason,” the streamer continued.

Despite his repeated calls for physical harm and the murder of his political enemies on the same online platforms that allegedly aided the radicalization of Kirk’s accused assassin, Destiny has not faced any public investigation.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.