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A man attacked the husband of congresswoman Nancy Pelosi with a hammer, almost killing him. Charlie Kirk laughs about it. He says anyone who bailed out the attacker would be a great patriot (files.catbox.moe)

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Sources:

👉 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64428041

👉 https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/charlie-kirk-once-called-patriot-180221252.html

👉 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-kirk-bail-out-alleged-paul-pelosi-attacker-1234621493/

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[-] kcuf@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago

Do you have a longer segment that mentions who he's talking about? I'd like to send this to people, but I don't it'll be as clear to them what he's talking about.

[-] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 13 points 2 weeks ago

The video shows the bodycam footage of the atttack.

[-] kcuf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I think the post has been updated with more links

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