MAGA influencer Benny Johnson melted down on Wednesday after former President Barack Obama talked about conservative activist Charlie Kirk's slaying during a speaking engagement.
Obama spoke at the Jefferson Educational Society of Erie's 17th Global Summit on Wednesday, where he was asked about the impact of Kirk's killing. He described the killing as "horrific and tragic" while also saying that it is appropriate for people to disagree with Kirk's ideas, even after his tragic death.
"When it happens to some, even if the person is on the other side, it happens to all of us, and we have to be clear and forthright in condemning it," Obama said about political violence. "That doesn't mean that we can't have a debate about the ideas that people who were victims of political violence were promoting."
Johnson said on a new episode of his eponymous podcast that Obama's comments are part of "very predictable, thickening realities" coming to fruition in the aftermath of the shooting in Utah.
"We're just going to have to accept that Barack Obama was going to try and use Charlie Kirk's political assassination by the left, by a left-wing movement, of which he is a part, for his own political gain, to attack President Trump and to desecrate in a very small or large way Charlie Kirk's memory," Johnson said.
Johnson also said it is a lie to claim that Kirk's shooter was not motivated by a radical left-wing ideology.
"You can't unify over a lie," Johnson told his audience. "You can't unify with people who want you dead. And so, it's unfortunately despicable and predictable. Ladies and gentlemen, that's Barack Obama for you."
