WASHINGTON (AP) — Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, President Donald Trump and his allies have praised the conservative organizer and provocateur as a free speech champion who set a high First Amendment standard for the “Make America Great Again” movement. While conservatives have not always been free speech absolutists, including campaigns against those who didn’t condemn the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the latest inconsistencies are stark. “It was Charlie who helped bring online censorship, free speech and cancel culture to the fore of our political debate,” Trump said on Sunday. “If the idea of free speech enrages you — the cornerstone of democratic self-government — then I regret to inform you that you are a fascist,” Stephen Miller, now White House deputy chief of staff, tweeted on April 15, 2022. Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a podcast interview, declared that “there’s free speech and then there’s hate speech” and the latter “should be shut down.”Bondi later said she was talking about threats of violence.