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Trump tramples on decency ...again
Derby Telegraph
|September 29, 2025
ONALD Trump was handed a golden chance to do the bare minimum: honour a murdered ally, comfort a shattered widow, and show one flicker of decency.
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Instead, he turned Conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s memorial into a grotesque campaign rally - spewing bile, wallowing in self-pity, and trampling over grief like a man who's never learned the meaning of shame. It was stomach churning to watch.
Moments earlier, Erika Kirk had stood before thousands of mourners and delivered a plea so raw it cut through the air.
With her voice cracking, she begged for forgiveness - even for the man suspected of killing her husband. It was dignity in the face of despair, grace in the shadow of horror.
Then Trump took the microphone and spat right in that grace.
“Charlie did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them,’ he began. Then came the kicker: “That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponents, and I don’t want the best for them. I'm sorry. I am sorry, Erika”
This story is from the September 29, 2025 edition of Derby Telegraph.
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