Former President Barack Obama insists the nation is at an “inflection point” following Charlie Kirk’s assassination as the Democrat in his first public remarks on the shooting called the conservative commentator’s violent death a “tragedy” regardless of his views.

“Even if you think they’re quote unquote on the other side of the argument, that’s a threat to all of us and we have to be clear and forthright and condemn it,” Obama said during the Jefferson Educational Society’s global summit Tuesday night.

The 44th president said he believes the country is facing a precipitous rise in political violence – and accused President Trump and members of his administration of fueling some of the sharp political divisions.

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Former President Barack Obama insists the nation is at an “inflection point” following Charlie Kirk’s assassinationYouTube/Barack Obama
“But I’ll say this — those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind them,” he claimed, according to the Erie Times-News.

“When we have the weight of the United States government behind extremist views, we’ve got a problem.

“And so your original question was, ‘are we at an inflection point?’ We’re at an inflection point in the sense that we always have to fight for our democracy and we have to fight for those values that have made this country the envy of the world,” Obama said, answering an audience member.

Obama, 64, argued that his administration and other Republicans who held the Oval Office or ran against him – like former President George Bush, and GOP presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney — were more focused on bringing the country together than Trump.

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Kirk leaves behind a wife and two young children.hunter /X
“When I hear not just our current president, but his aides, who have a history of calling political opponents vermin, enemies, who need to be ‘targeted,’ that speaks to a broader problem that we have right now and something that we’re going to have to grapple with, all of us,” he said inside the Erie Insurance Arena.

Kirk was shot and killed last week at Utah Valley University, leaving behind a wife and two young children. The 31-year-old was on a speaking tour, in which he debates students on college campuses, when a bullet fatally struck his neck.

His alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, was nabbed more than 30 hours after the shooting and was charged with aggravated murder.

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Charlie Kirk speaking at the Republican National Convention, wearing a Trump shirt.REUTERS
The 22-year-old suspect allegedly said in text messages to his transgender lover following the shooting that he “had enough of his hatred,” in reference to Kirk, according to authorities.

Obama urged the public to “extend grace” to those mourning the shocking act of violence as many people have been lambasted —some even fired from their jobs — for cheering Kirk’s demise.

“I didn’t know Charlie Kirk,” Obama said. “I was generally aware of some of his ideas. I think those ideas were wrong, but that doesn’t negate the fact that what happened was a tragedy.

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Alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, was nabbed over 30 hours after the shooting.via REUTERS

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“I mourn for him and his family. He was a young man with two small children and a wife, who obviously had a huge number of friends and supporters who cared about him.”

The first public statements from Obama on Tuesday came after he tweeted last week in the aftermath of the slaying.

“We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children,” he wrote on X just hours after the assassination.