Donald Trump called a grieving governor to deliver a "warning."
The shooting of Charlie Kirk rocked the state of Utah, where Governor Spencer Cox was personally delivering press conference updates. It reportedly hit Cox especially hard that the suspected killer was a native of the state, and didn't come from another country.
According to the Atlantic, Cox was hit with a brutal and "haunting" warning via a call.
In an article called, "Trump Has a Warning for Spencer Cox," the Atlantic piece states, "Utah’s grieving governor opens up about his state, the country’s dangerous spiral, and a haunting conversation with the president."
"Yesterday morning, Governor Spencer Cox stood behind a podium in Orem, Utah, to announce the end of the 34-hour manhunt for Charlie Kirk’s killer, and to plead for peace in a nation that seemed at risk of spiraling into further violence," the Atlantic's McKay Coppins reported Saturday. "Shortly after he finished, Cox’s phone rang. The president was calling."
According to the report, Trump told Cox, "You know, the type of person who would do something like that to Charlie Kirk would love to do it to us."
"Trump went on to recite statistics suggesting that the presidency was 'one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet.' Fifteen percent of the men who’d held his office had been shot; 8 percent had been killed," according to the report.
The report continues:
"Cox understood Trump’s concern—after all, the president had narrowly escaped assassination himself just a year earlier. And Kirk’s murder was the latest grim turn in a season of political violence that has terrified America’s elected officials. 'People are scared to death in this building,' a member of Congress told NBC News this week. But as Cox and I spoke yesterday evening, he didn’t seem especially focused on his own safety. He had something else on his mind."
