Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy is in hot water over his reaction to Charlie Kirk’s assassination as he believes the so-called divisiveness of President Donald Trump played a major role in the conservative activist’s death.
Portnoy said, “When I say Trump has a huge part in it, I don’t necessarily mean he’s to blame for it, but he’s so divisive… [even just] his face is divisive.”
“People hate him so much,” the stoolie boss added.
“And the left and the right, the rhetoric–especially to me the left, is insane–and it just boils, boils, boils, boils.”
He continued, “This happened with Trump, when his assassination attempt [happened] there was like a three-hour period of ‘let’s tone down the rhetoric,’ and then they’re right back to it.”
Portnoy then added: “If you sit there and you call people Nazis over and over and over, and say that they’re threatening Democracy and they’re fascist over and over… you can’t then be like, ‘What happened?’”
“That goes together, because if you truly think you’re killing a Nazi, or you truly think you’re killing a fascist, in your head you’re thinking ‘I did good for society.’”
His remarks sparked MAGA outrage, however, Portnoy was quick to