{"id":2486322,"date":"2025-09-14T12:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cox-says-kirk-said-some-very-inflammatory-things-but-also-preached-forgiveness\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:07:27","slug":"cox-says-kirk-said-some-very-inflammatory-things-but-also-preached-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cox-says-kirk-said-some-very-inflammatory-things-but-also-preached-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Cox says Kirk said &#8216;some very inflammatory&#8217; things but also preached forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcox-says-kirk-said-some-very-inflammatory-things-but-also-preached-forgiveness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2486322&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article covers Utah Governor Spencer Cox&#8217;s comments on the late political activist Charlie Kirk following inflammatory remarks made by Kirk that have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-sheriffs-tell-newsom-they-wont-enforce-covid-curfew\/\" title=\"California Sheriffs Tell Newsom They Won&#039;t Enforce COVID Curfew\">circulated online<\/a>. Cox acknowledged that while Kirk made some controversial statements, including criticism of civil rights leader martin Luther King Jr. and strong defense of the Second Amendment despite gun violence, Kirk also preached messages of forgiveness, faith, community engagement, and dialogue as ways to counter darkness and violence. Cox emphasized the importance of continuing conversations to prevent violent escalation. Additionally, Cox noted President Donald Trump&#8217;s concern about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-woman-charged-for-threatening-to-shoot-trump-and-his-teenage-son-in-the-face-in-emails-to-school\/\" title=\"Chicago woman charged for threatening to shoot Trump and his son in emails to school.\">rising political violence<\/a> and Trump&#8217;s commitment to discouraging violence and holding accountable those responsible for attacks linked to political extremism. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Cox says Kirk said &lsquo;some very inflammatory&rsquo; things but also preached forgiveness<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2229680\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3805191\/spencer-cox-charlie-kirk-press-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spencer Cox <\/a>(R-UT) acknowledged that there are &ldquo;corners of the web&rdquo; where the more &ldquo;inflammatory&rdquo; comments made by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3802380\/trump-radical-left-violence-charlie-kirk-assassination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">late political activist Charlie Kirk<\/a> are making the rounds.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Charlie said some very inflammatory things, and in some corners of the web, that&lsquo;s all people have heard,&rdquo; Cox said on CNN&rsquo;s <em>State of the Union<\/em> on Sunday. &ldquo;But he also said some other things, about forgiveness.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3806939\/denver-school-shooting-suspect-neo-nazi-views-online\/\">Denver school shooting suspect expressed neo-Nazi views online, report says<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3805911\/mexico-touts-border-arrests-trump-tariff-threats\/\">Mexico touts border arrests amid Trump tariff threats<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3806732\/alleged-kirk-shooter-tyler-robinson-lived-with-transgender-partner\/\">Kirk suspect Tyler Robinson lived with transgender partner<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3125406&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=918ff1eabce94da9ce84622c5ba550f9\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cox may have been referring to Kirk&rsquo;s defense of the Second Amendment. Kirk advocated the right to own guns in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3804416\/ilhan-omar-charlie-kirk-death-guns-save-lives-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aftermath of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >mass shooting events<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational,&rdquo; Kirk once said.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk was also critical of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. When a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-like-the-good-old-days-joe-biden-invades-syria-with-convoy-of-us-troops-and-choppers-on-first-full-day-as-president\/\" title=\"Just Like the Good Old Days: Joe Biden Invades Syria with Convoy of US Troops and Choppers on First Full Day as President\">report claimed<\/a> that Kirk described King as &ldquo;a bad guy&rdquo; and that the Civil Rights Act was a mistake, Kirk said last year on the <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v46n9pt-wired-comes-after-charlie-kirk-for-daring-to-speak-the-truth-on-mlk-jr.-and.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Charlie Kirk Show<\/em><\/a>  that the claims were true. During the same episode, Kirk read aloud a request for comment from a reporter.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&lsquo;As we note in the piece, Kirk has previously described [King] as a hero and a civil rights icon,&rsquo;&rdquo; Kirk read, then added, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s true. I used to be wrong.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Cox went on to defend the more &ldquo;amazing&rdquo; comments Kirk made in his lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[Kirk] said some amazing things about when things get dark, putting down our phones, reading scripture, going to church, talking to our neighbors. He said that we have to engage,&rdquo; Cox said. &ldquo;And that&lsquo;s what I appreciate most about Charlie Kirk is that if we don&lsquo;t, if we don&lsquo;t keep talking, that&lsquo;s when the violence starts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Utah governor also appeared on NBC News&rsquo;s<em> Meet the Press<\/em> to reveal that President Donald Trump wants to clamp down on violent retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8203;&#8203;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3802322\/democrats-gun-control-political-violence-charlie-kirk-assassination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>DEMOCRATS MUM ON GUN CONTROL BUT CONDEMN POLITICAL VIOLENCE AFTER CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSINATION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t do much national press anymore. The White House asked us to come on and talk about this because they are worried about the escalation that&rsquo;s happening out there,&rdquo; Cox said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3125452&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=3a8da1e2114fe39756ceedceaa4cf4fb\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump has been careful to discourage violence and promised to &ldquo;find each and every one of those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3802380\/trump-radical-left-violence-charlie-kirk-assassination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who contributed to this atrocity<\/a>.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cox: Kirk made inflammatory remarks but also urged forgiveness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2486323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25255536798887.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[15430,5490,63308,10384,6317],"class_list":["post-2486322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-cox","tag-forgiveness","tag-inflammatory-remarks","tag-kirk","tag-statement"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25255536798887.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486326,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486322\/revisions\/2486326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2486323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}