{"id":48504,"date":"2025-12-10T18:24:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/principleisapromise.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/democrat-john-fetterman-decries-dehumanizing-attack-against-charlie-kirks-widow-erika\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:24:30","slug":"democrat-john-fetterman-decries-dehumanizing-attack-against-charlie-kirks-widow-erika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/principleisapromise.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/democrat-john-fetterman-decries-dehumanizing-attack-against-charlie-kirks-widow-erika\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat John Fetterman decries \u2018dehumanizing\u2019 attack against Charlie Kirk\u2019s widow Erika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania condemned an attack against Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, whose assassination shocked the world earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8216;It\u2019s gross and dehumanizing to attack a widow with young children after just witnessing his public assassination,&#8217; the senator noted in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It shouldn\u2019t be controversial to put our political views aside and extend the grace for a deeply traumatized family to grieve,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He made the comments when sharing a screenshot of a Fox News Digital article headline that read, &#8216;Liberal podcaster labels widow Erika Kirk a &#8216;grifter&#8217; who should be &#8216;kicked to the curb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This woman should be kicked to the curb,&#8217; Jennifer Welch said on her &#8216;I&#8217;ve Had It&#8217; podcast. &#8216;She is an absolute grifter, just like Donald Trump, and just like her unrepentant, racist, homophobic husband was,&#8217; she said of Erika Kirk.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div data-video-tags=\"3play_sameday,media,fnd_vi,primary_media\" data-video-title=\"Jennifer Welch says \" data-video-id=\"6386212227112\" data-video-domain=\"foxnews\" data-video-type=\"CLIP\" data-widget-type=\"embed\" class=\"m video-player\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 100%\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, who is running for governor, responded to Fetterman&#8217;s post by thanking the senator.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Channel political analyst Gianno Caldwell expressed full agreement with Fetterman&#8217;s comments.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div data-video-tags=\"primary_politics,on_air,on_air|the_five,personality|jesse_watters,personality|dana_perino,personality|tyrus,personality|jessica_tarlov,travel|general|airlines,health|nutrition_fitness|fitness,politics|executive_branch|cabinet\" data-video-title=\"Charlie Kirk wanted \" data-video-id=\"6386252787112\" data-video-domain=\"foxnews\" data-video-type=\"CLIP\" data-widget-type=\"embed\" class=\"m video-player\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 100%\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was fatally shot during an event at Utah Valley University in September. He and his wife Erika had two children.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania condemned an attack against Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, whose assassination shocked the world earlier this year. &#8216;It\u2019s gross and dehumanizing to attack a widow with young children after just witnessing his public assassination,&#8217; the senator noted in a post on X. &#8216;It shouldn\u2019t be <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/principleisapromise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/principleisapromise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/principleisapromise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/principleisapromise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/principleisapromise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/principleisapromise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/principleisapromise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/principleisapromise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/principleisapromise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/principleisapromise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}