Jemele Hill deletes post claiming Charlie Kirk was victim of white supremacist gang hit

Jemele Hill reportedly deleted a social media post in which she suggested that Charlie Kirk’s assassination was the result of a “white supremacist gang hit.”Hill, the controversial former ESPN personality who currently writes for The Atlantic magazine, recently reacted on Bluesky to an interview granted by a Boston University professor to the Los Angeles Times.“The LA Times spoke with an expert (imagine that!) about the markings on the killer’s bullet casings and turns out … Charlie Kirk likely was the victim of a white supremacist gang hit.Well, well, well,” Hill wrote in the now-deleted Bluesky post.Chuck Ross, a reporter with the Washington Free Beacon, was the first to call attention to Hill’s deletion on Tuesday afternoon.“The Atlantic’s @jemelehill deleted her Bluesky post where she said Charlie Kirk’s assassination was carried out by a white supremacist gang.”Ross noted that Hill cited “disinformation expert” Joan Donovan, who “should now be shunned by the media,” he wrote on X.Kirk was gunned down while talking with college students on the campus of a university in Utah last Wednesday.Prosecutors have filed charges against the alleged killer, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson.Prosecutors said Robinson, who is reported to have been in a relationship with a transgender roommate, confessed to the shooting in private messages.“I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it,” Robinson is alleged to have written.Robinson is alleged to have said he killed Kirk because he believed Kirk “spreads too much hate” and later stated, “Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”As of Wednesday, no evidence has surfaced linking Robinson to white supremacists.Hill sparked anger following Kirk’s killing.

On her podcast, she denounced Kirk as a “white supremacist” whose “entire purpose” in life was discriminate against “people who were not straight white Christian men.”“I’m tired of white supremacist b...