Overview
- On Politics War Room, James Carville said Charlie Kirk was "not a pimple on Rob Reiner’s a**" in influence or impact while remembering Reiner as a friend.
- Carville and co-host Al Hunt criticized President Donald Trump’s Truth Social statement on the Reiners’ deaths, which referenced "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and drew bipartisan backlash.
- Mediaite reports that Nick Reiner, 32, is being charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, with reporting noting a history of drug and mental health struggles.
- The hosts contrasted public reactions to the two cases, noting that conservatives were angered by liberals making light of Kirk’s assassination while Trump’s statements on Kirk were more respectful.
- Mediaite notes that Tyler Robinson, 22, has been charged in Charlie Kirk’s Sept. 10 killing, which was later marked by a memorial and a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom.