Don Lemon Listens Silently As Actor Calls Charlie Kirk ‘Horrible Human Being’

Former CNN host Don Lemon listened quietly on “The Don Lemon Show” Thursday while comedian D.L. Hughley cast aspersions on assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday while speaking to a large crowd of students at Utah Valley University (UVU) about mass shootings; his last words were questioning a crowd member about whether he was categorizing “gang violence” as mass shootings. Hughley falsely claimed on Lemon’s YouTube show that Kirk’s murder did not qualify as an assassination because he was not a politician and characterized him as a despicable person. (RELATED: ‘I Did See Him Fall’: Jason Chaffetz Provides Eyewitness Account Of Charlie Kirk Shooting)

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“he thing that makes me the angriest about this is I always swore that I would never cede my humanity to anybody or any other situation. But that’s getting more and more difficult to do because I certainly don’t believe a young man, 31 years old, should have lost his life,” Hughley said. “But Charlie Kirk was a horrible human being. He said horribly incendiary things … the very last words he spoke were basically putting the onus of gun violence on gangs, which is synonymous with black people. The very way he died was lying about black people with his last breath.”

“I just think the best thing I can say is that I hope he believed what he was saying,” he added. “I hope he believed that lives being lost were worth it so the Second Amendment could persevere … I hope he believed all the rhetoric he espoused because if not, that was certainly an empty, vacant way to live and certainly a horrible way to die.”