A former Democratic senator shocked Fox News viewers on Friday when he suggested that President Donald Trump is the only person who can “bring this country together” following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

The murder of Kirk, 31, has drawn sharp partisan lines as Trump and Republicans accuse Democrats of inciting violence with repeated comparisons to fascism and Nazism dating back to Trump’s first term.

Democrats have countered by pointing to Trump’s own rhetoric, claiming he has encouraged a far greater degree of right-wing violence.

That argument does not hold water with Joe Manchin, the former governor and senator from West Virginia. Continues…