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Media hack Katie Couric recently interviewed Senator John Fetterman (D-PA).

During the podcast “Next Question with Katie Couric,” the leftist propagandist masquerading as a journalist tried to manipulate Fetterman into saying something derogatory about slain conservative leader Charlie Kirk.

Couric began with a more subtle approach by first asking if he agreed with the “official” tributes, including posthumously awarding Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom asking,  “I think some people felt that that was perhaps over the top, in terms of mourning someone like Charlie Kirk.”

Fetterman noted it was “his prerogative” (presumably President Trump) and “entirely up to him” to honor Kirk in that way.

Couric continued to press Fetterman into slamming Kirk.

“I think some people might say Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric was extreme,” she said.

Again, Fetterman refused to take the bait and described himself as “an absolute free speech guy.” He also lamented Kirk’s public execution, choosing to keep the focus, correctly, on the political murder of a leader for expressing his conservative views.

Although she repeatedly tried to get Fetterman to condemn Kirk, he refused and earned a note of gratitude from Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization founded by Kirk.

Thank you @JohnFetterman https://t.co/gEpZ0RnfXR

— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) November 13, 2025

On Friday, Fox News host Lara Trump rebuked Couric for her disgusting behavior.

“Maybe Katie Couric should do a deep dive into what Charlie Kirk stood for because he stood for freedom of speech, no matter what it was you were saying,” Trump noted.

“He would go into these college campuses, into these bastions of liberal ideology, and he would want to engage with people.”

“He did it peacefully. He did it respectfully. He believed in America. He believed in God, in Jesus and there’s nothing that he said or ever talked about with people that was outrageous.”

She continued, “But the idea that she was essentially trying to get validation from John Fetterman there for Charlie Kirk’s murder is kind of outrageous.”

“I don’t even know what the point of any of that was, but it kind of goes back to how we got to this spot in the first place, where we saw a young father assassinated in cold blood,.”

“It’s because people continue to push this idea that somehow there’s a problem with that and maybe action should be taken. That was really shameful and pretty disgraceful and disgusting.”

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