Kari Lake to Newsmax: Brainwashed Youth Glorify Assassins for Attention

Kari Lake, a senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, warned on Newsmax, Wednesday, that left-leaning rhetoric and cultural messaging are pushing young people toward violence and the glorification of political assassins.

Lake appeared on “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” where she said left-wing rhetoric is encouraging violence and shaping young minds to see political assassins as heroes.

“The rhetoric has basically been a message to the thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of mentally deranged people in that party that it’s okay to get violent,” Lake said. “It’s ramping up. You’d think it would ramp down after we lost Charlie [Kirk] to an assassin’s bullet.”

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