A Republican congressman accused Democrats of killing Charlie Kirk while simultaneously pleading with liberals to ‘lower this rhetoric to a normal place.’

Kirk, 31, the conservative activist founder of Turning Point USA, was shot while speaking at a Utah college last week. Tyler Robinson, 22, is in custody as a suspect in the murder, and the FBI announced on Monday that his DNA has been linked to evidence in the case.

FBI Director Kash Patel said on Monday that investigators were able to retrieve text messages from the shooter, including an exchange ‘in which he claimed that he had an opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and he was going to do it because of his hatred for what Charlie stood for.’

Reports indicate that Robinson’s roommate was a male who was transitioning, and that the bullets in the gun allegedly used to kill Kirk contained, suggesting the reason behind the murder may be political in nature, though authorities have not released a motive.

A major figure on the right, Kirk’s death immediately evoked a buffet of emotions on Capitol Hill, including fear, anger, deep sadness and loss. Both Democrats and Republicans have mourned the young father of two’s passing last week.

Since the public and tragic assassination, lawmakers have also been in a frenzy to tone down the extreme language peddled by politicians on both sides of the aisle.

But some, while calling for calmer political rhetoric, have inflamed the national dialogue.

Rep. Michael Rulli, R-Ohio, went on Fox Business on Monday and said that Democrats are to blame for Kirk’s assassination.

‘I’m going to put focus on the opposition, the Democratic Party,’ he said. ‘You can’t use this rhetoric about us all day long, where you call us Nazis, you call us monsters, you call us all these different words that are just horrific and they drive people to insanity.’

‘You tried to kill our president twice. You actually killed Charlie,’ Rulli continued. ‘Enough is enough. Stop the shenanigans and lower this rhetoric to a normal place where we can all exist together.’

Rulli noted that he has received a dozen death threats this year and that Democrats are the ones who need to tone down their rhetoric.

‘You need to lower the temperature,’ Rulli said of the left.

‘When Joe Biden was in office, we listened, we watched, and we spoke, but we spoke fluently, and we didn’t speak with this hate, and we didn’t speak with these words.’

He’s not the only lawmaker to blame Democrats.

In the aftermath of Kirk’s death last week, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., claimed ‘Democrats own what happened today.’

That same day, during a fiery exchange on the House floor when Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., asked for a prayer for Kirk and Democrats objected, Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna screamed at liberal lawmakers, claiming they ‘f***ing own this,’ referring to the 31-year-old’s death.

Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., posted on Monday morning that she wants a ‘national divorce’ over how some on the left have reacted to Kirk’s killing.

‘There is nothing left to talk about with the left. They hate us. They assassinated our nice guy who actually talked to them peacefully debating ideas,’ Greene posted on X. ‘Then millions on the left celebrated and made clear they want all of us dead.’

‘To be honest, I want a peaceful national divorce,’ she added. 

The barrage of accusations prompted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to urge members to stop the ‘finger-pointing.’

Other conservative figures have also been quick to cast blame on Democrats for the TPUSA founder’s death.

Matt Walsh, a show host for the Daily Wire, one of the largest media organizations on the right, similarly accused liberals of killing Kirk.

‘Charlie tried to have conversations with you on the left, and you killed him for it,’ the host wrote, adding that ‘It’s time for good to fight back against evil.’

John Daniel Davidson, a senior editor at The Federalist, another conservative outlet, wrote a column on how conservatives and liberals should cease to coexist in the U.S. following the apparent political assassination.

‘The left is a violent revolutionary movement that wants all those who oppose it dead. It’s incompatible with American constitutionalism. Charlie Kirk’s assassination should confirm what we already should have known: we cannot share a country with the left,’ he wrote.