Posts on Thursday, September 11, 2025
A Secret Service Agent, in a Facebook post, said Charlie Kirk deserved to be assassinated.
TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, 31, was brutally murdered in broad daylight on Wednesday during an event at Utah Valley University. A gunman climbed up onto a roof and shot Charlie Kirk from an elevated position.
Secret Service Agent Anthony Pough said Charlie Kirk, a Christian husband and father to two young children, deserved to be murdered in cold blood.
“If you are Mourning this guy… delete me. He spewed hate and racism on his show,” Anthony Pough wrote.
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A video has emerged that appears to show a bearded man who appeared to be celebrating and looking in the direction of the gunshot moments after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Footage shared widely online, and ripped from TV feeds, shows a young man wearing a black T-shirt and a backwards baseball cap pumping his fists and cheering in the immediate aftermath of the shot that killed the young conservative activist on a college campus in Utah on Wednesday afternoon.
He was filmed shouting “USA, USA, USA!” with both fists in the air – mirroring President Trump’s rally cry after he was nearly assassinated at a rally in Butler, Pa. last summer.
As we await the FBI briefing on the Charlie Kirk assassination, authorities revealed new pictures Thursday night of the suspect as well as a video taken from a neighborhood surveillance camera.
Chilling new photos of a 'person of interest' wanted in connection with Charlie Kirk's assassination have been released as the manhunt for the suspect continued.
The Utah Department of Public Safety released the new surveillance pictures Thursday night showing the unidentified suspect wearing a dark, long sleeved shirt with an American flag on the chest, a gray baseball cap and sunglasses.
He also carried a black backpack as he went up and down the stairs.
Rep. Ilhan Omar added another mark to her record as one of the most hateful, depraved members of Congress on Thursday. While speaking to pro-Hamas journalist Mehdi Hasan, the Minnesota congresswoman mocked Charlie Kirk and appeared to offer justification for his assassination.
Kirk was murdered while speaking on the campus of Utah Valley State on Wednesday, (Snip) Further exposing her lack of common decency and humanity, Omar cast that aside and instead joined with Hasan to essentially argue that Kirk deserved what he got because of his "words and actions."
It's about time!
On Thursday, Senate Republicans triggered the "nuclear option" that was holding back many of President Donald Trump's nominations. Now things can get moving.
Republicans triggered the "nuclear option" to change the rules of the Senate on a party-line basis Thursday, a move that will allow them to speed up confirmation of President Donald Trump's nominees for key executive branch positions.
The vote was 53-45 to establish a new rule that allows the Senate to confirm an unlimited number of nominees en bloc, rather than process each one individually.
The rule applies to executive branch nominees subject to two hours of Senate debate, including subcabinet picks and ambassadors.
WASHINGTON — Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, President Donald Trump may be uniquely positioned to tamp down the anger that suffuses American politics and lead a movement to bind up a bitterly divided country if he chooses.
But, political strategists and officials from both parties told NBC News, that’s not the path Trump appears to be taking.
Trump has been both a target of assassination attempts and a fount of vitriolic rhetoric. He knows firsthand the passions that drive American voters and, were he to renounce partisan attacks and call on others in both parties to do the same, that gesture could potentially send a healing message.
President Donald Trump said that investigators are “making big progress” in the hunt for the person who fatally shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah event on Wednesday.
“I hear they’re making big progress, and we’ll have to see what happens,” Trump told reporters before boarding Marine One en route to New York. He added that the shooter was “an animal” who would be “dealt with very appropriately.” When asked about a possible motive, Trump said, “I have an indication, yeah, but we’ll let you know about that later.”
The president also confirmed he plans to attend Kirk’s funeral in Arizona in the coming days.
Trump says he had ‘long talk’ with
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Charlie Kirk’s ‘absolutely devastated’
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President Trump said Thursday that Charlie Kirk’s widow is “devastated” after her husband was savagely gunned down by a lone shooter during a speaking event in Utah Wednesday afternoon.
Trump told reporters outside the White House that he had spoken at length with Erika Frantzve, the 31-year-old conservative activist’s wife and mother of his two young children.
“I spoke to Erika, his wife. And we had a long talk,” the commander in chief said. “And she’s devastated. She is absolutely devastated, as you can imagine.”
President Donald Trump on Thursday voiced concern for the country in the wake of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Cook, and said he wanted his supporters to respond with "nonviolence."
Trump was asked if he's worried for his own safety in the wake of Wednesday's fatal shooting of Kirk as he left the White House for New York on Thursday afternoon.
"Not really," the president responded. "I'm really concerned for out country. We have a great country. We have a radical left group of lunatics out there, just absolute lunatics, and we're going to get that problem solved. I'm only concerned for the country."
Ginned up by a corporate media eager to dehumanize us into something that demands killing (Nazis, fascists, etc.), the violent and often deadly attacks on conservatives just keep coming. I’m sure I missed some, but here’s as comprehensive a list as I could come up with. (text) Suppose you count all 23 attacks on pro-life centers. In that case, it adds up to 37 attacks — all of it ginned up by a corporate media that gives their violent followers little choice but to attack and murder those described as fascists, Nazis, rapists, threats-to-democracy, and white supremacists.
The Carolina Panthers on Thursday fired an employee who made insensitive social media posts following the assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. Charlie Rock, a member of the team’s communications department, was the staffer fired, a source briefed on the Panthers’ decision confirmed to Fox News Digital. Social media posts linked to Rock appeared to show him questioning why people were sad that Kirk had been shot and killed. The song "Protect Ya Neck" from the Wu-Tang Clan was also shared. "The views expressed by our employees are their own and do not represent those of the Carolina Panthers," the
The transgender-identifying comic book creator who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death on social media will no longer be producing work for DC Comics, the entertainment company has announced. The mature readers comic series “Red Hood,” a Batman spinoff project, was written by Gretchen Felker-Martin and had artwork by Jeff Spokes. The first book launched on the same day Kirk was murdered, September 10. Felker-Martin’s account on Bluesky is currently suspended, but other users took screenshots to capture his vile reactions. When reports first came in that Kirk was shot, the comic book creator
You can feel it. Something has shifted. The world’s axis bumped. The heavens are growling. There is a disturbance in the force. “I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced,” said Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars series. Everyone I spoke with yesterday after this paradigm-shifting tragedy unfolded, said that something…something deep, something cosmic, something sinister—or maybe revelatory—happened.
Former ESPN anchor Sage Steele has issued a direct call for all major American sports leagues to “release statements & send condolences” to the family of murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk, “kinda like you did when career criminal George Floyd died.”
Kirk, 31, was murdered while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday afternoon. The founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) and husband and father of two, was struck in the neck by an assassin’s bullet and later died at a local Utah hospital.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WSMV) - An employee at Middle Tennessee State University was fired on Wednesday for comments she posted online regarding Charlie Kirk’s death. Laura Sosh-Lightsy, the now former Assistant Dean at MTSU, shared her thoughts on Kirk’s death online.
“Looks like ol’ Charlie spoke his fate into existence,” she wrote. “Hate begets hate. ZERO sympathy.”
One never knows for sure beforehand, but I think Charlie Kirk’s assassination may be something of a tipping point in American politics and culture, or, at a minimum, an inflection point. Why? Because Charlie wasn’t a radical, he wasn’t a firebrand, he wasn’t a bomb thrower… No, Charlie was—in a relative sense—a lamb. And now, that lamb has been slaughtered.
Vice President JD Vance was among the countless politicians to offer prayers in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but hours later, likely after processing Wednesday’s horrific events, the VP shared more personal details of his relationship with the late conservative firebrand and how influential he was in shaping the Trump administration today.
Vance begins by describing how the two met and explaining how instrumental he was in his political rise.
"A while ago, probably in 2017, I appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox show to talk about God knows what. Afterwards a name I barely knew sent me a DM on twitter and told me I did a great job.
Like every other conservative I know, I spent Wednesday afternoon vacillating between stunned shock and explosive rage. When I wasn’t consoling myself that surely I hadn’t just seen conservative superstar Charlie Kirk get shot, I was resisting with all my being the urge to “fedpost,” as the kids say.
Out of respect for the affection we once shared, I will not name him here. He and I were in Boy Scouts long ago — I came to his Eagle Scout ceremony and he to mine, from my recollection. Unlike many of the older scouts, he made an effort to treat those junior to him as peers instead of subordinates.
This may be the hardest column I’ve ever written, one where I’m so angry that it’s hard for me to put my words into a sequence that’s both coherent and not profane. They murdered Charlie Kirk today. They shot him dead because he dared to exercise his right as a human being to speak freely – contrary to what Democrat senators insist, our rights do not come from government but are endowed within us by our Creator. So, this was not merely a crime against one man, or against his beautiful family, but against both this country and our God.
And it will be righteously avenged.
Honor: Vice President Vance to Escort
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Charlie Kirk's Casket Home to Arizona
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Earlier, we told you about the beautifully moving tribute Vice President JD Vance posted on X in memory of his friend, Charlie Kirk. Vance credited Kirk with helping his political career take off, as well as with winning the 2024 election, calling Kirk his friend and "a good man."
Kirk was assassinated at the first stop on "The American Comeback Tour" in Orem, Utah.
Vice President Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance flew to Utah to meet with Charlie Kirk's family today. We also learned the Vances will escort Charlie Kirk's casket back to Phoenix, Arizona on Air Force Two.
We don't need to wait to find out "what motivated" the sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk in Utah on Wednesday, as Barack Obama claimed within hours of the Turning Point USA founder's murder. We already know what the motive was. We know Charlie was shot to death by a nihilistic sniper from the rooftop of a Utah Valley University campus building because he was an effective messenger for turning hearts and minds away from the left and toward home, family, God, and life. Away from chaos and toward order. Away from evil and toward the good. [Tweet] And he was good at it. There's your motive.
Somehow a Glock and Code Pink were allowed within close proximity of the President.
It’s astonishing to me that these kinds of failures have happened given POTUS’s well-known brushes with death.
Somebody -- multiple somebodies -- need to be fired and fired stat.
First, the Glock. It happened at Trump’s Virginia golf course where a “Trump National club member was able to carry [it] into the club in Sterling, Va. while Trump was golfing there last week even though a USSS Uniformed Division officer had screened the bag by hand and wanded the man carrying it.”
How, how is that possible?
“This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
—Winston Churchill, Nov. 10, 1942
You feel it, don’t you? That ugly, unsettling sense that everything’s different now. It’s no longer the same country.
This is the story of Charlie Kirk, the United States of America, and what the hell happens next. Today, on the 24th anniversary of 9/11, we stand before two paths.
And, as Americans, the choice is entirely ours.
The first path leads somewhere darker and bloodier, replete with reprisals, escalations, vengeance, and fury. Those on the right who crave retribution will pursue it;
Since we're on a crime kick, let's check in on one of the cities most resistant to Donald Trump's offer of National Guard assistance with the crime Chicago Mayor Brandon 'Bear of Little Brains' Johnson insists he's got under control. After all, this was a weekend.
WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' FEDERALES
Now, while they did manage to keep the body count down after the previous holiday weekend's spectacular numbers, that by no means meant there weren't fireworks.
But first, there was some Miracle Mile window shoplifting on a pleasant Friday evening. I don't know, maybe pick out - or up - a watch or shiny bauble for the lovely lady
Charlie Kirk is dead. The world is a much poorer place without him, but the conservative movement he founded will go on, stronger than ever.
I am not blaming anyone for his assassination because we don't know who shot him or why. Duh. The obvious answer is a left-winger, but I'll hold off on what's "obvious" until the facts are in. This caution is born out of 20 years of being wrong in these situations often enough that I got sick of being embarrassed about it.
I was always half-amused at the jumping to conclusions by both sides when a high-profile death occurs in a political context.
FBI Releases Photo of ‘Person of Interest’
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The FBI Office in Salt Lake City released photos of a “person of interest” in connection with Charlie Kirk’s assassination and asked for “the public’s help.” [Tweet]
Earlier Thursday morning, Breitbart News reported that Utah Department of Public Safety (DPS) Commissioner Beau Mason spoke at press conference and made clear that the shooter “appears to be of college age.”
He stressed that authorities “worked through the night” and were able to find photos and videos of the suspect on various cameras.
Shortly after the shocking assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, many leftists took to social media to mock, deride, and laugh at Kirk with many expressing happiness at his death. A new website, named Charlie’s Murderers, aims to expose those that attacked Kirk in his final moments.
During a speaking event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination. (Snip) As leftists began to flood social media platforms with messages applauding the assassination of Kirk, a website named Charlie’s Murderers was created to catalog their posts.
Ammunition cartridges recovered along with the bolt-action rifle used in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk were scrawled with transgender and anti-fascist messages, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The rifle was recovered Wednesday night in a wooded area where the FBI believes the killer fled after the shooting.
It was wrapped in a towel and had three unused ammo cartridges still in the chamber. Each was “engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology,” the Journal reported…
The suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination appears to be college-aged and used a high-powered bolt-action rifle to commit the harrowing murder, authorities revealed at a news conference Thursday morning.
Law enforcement recovered the weapon in a wooded area and obtained foot prints and palm prints from the suspect, who remains at large. The individual blended in well on the UVU campus given his apparent age.
“We have recovered what we believed is the weapon used in yesterday’s shooting. It is a high powered bolt action rifle.
The FBI is facing questions over an airport that was left open after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, with speculation brewing over a jet that could be linked to his murder.
(snip)Speculation on social media has pointed to a private jet that left the airport shortly after the single shot that killed the conservative activist rang out.
Flight tracking data shows the jet left the airport shortly after 2pm and headed south towards the Arizona border before it disappeared from radars.
It then reappeared on radars and returned to Provo roughly one hour after leaving the airport.
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The assassination of Charlie Kirk represents an incalculable loss to his young family, to the conservative movement, and therefore to the United States. We mourn his death but we also feel deep anger in our breasts. If we did not represent the forces of constitutional order, it feels like it could be the opening salvo of a civil war. It provokes us to wonder what might have happened if the assassination of President Trump had succeeded during last year’s campaign.
We have no idea what evidence the shooter left behind, but it appears that Kirk’s assassination was something of a professional job. Whoever did it — and whoever
With the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the far left seems to be morphing into a kind of political death cult. No longer satisfied with trying to win elections, the far left and its allies now routinely seem to wish instead for their political foes to die, and even to excuse political murder.
It was just two weeks ago that many on the left were wringing their hands in glee as they fantasized and wished for President Donald Trump’s death after he took a few days off from the stresses of his office. False reports of his death were
As the nation grapples with the news that conservative activist and commentator Charlie Kirk was gunned down in cold blood while conducting one of his signature campus debates at Utah Valley University, it is of paramount importance for our political leaders both to recognize the political moment we are in and to try to defuse a potentially combustible situation. While conservatives will be tempted to demonize whoever the deluded shooter turns out to be, and liberals will undoubtedly call for more ineffective gun control legislation, neither reaction can hope to lead to anything productive.
TMZ forced to apologize for raucous laughter
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TMZ scrambled to save face after staffers were heard erupting into laughter the moment Charlie Kirk’s death was confirmed during its livestream.
A clip of the celebrity gossip outlet’s livestream sparked outrage on social media after newsroom staffers cheered and clapped in the background as reporters on camera covered the assassination.
Seconds later, Levin is told by staff members around him that President Trump said that Kirk had died after the shooting at Utah Valley University.
We will obviously be doing this a little bit differently today. I've gone lighter with the links today, and the majority of them are related to the horrible news from yesterday.
If you're looking for something poignant, I'm not your guy right now. My colleagues have done remarkable work eulogizing and paying tribute to Charlie Kirk; there is absolutely nothing that I can add to their heartfelt words. Words that I know weren't easy to write.
In what is a huge departure for me, I had already mapped out what I was going to write here at the top of Thursday's Briefing before noon my time on Wednesday.
When news broke Wednesday afternoon that conservative activist Charlie Kirk had been shot at Utah Valley University, something disturbing happened. Mainstream media personalities seemed more interested in providing context that somehow justified the violence. The grotesque spectacle that followed reveals everything wrong with today's media landscape.
The facts are straightforward enough. Kirk was conducting a Q&A session on campus when a gunshot rang out, striking him near the neck. Video footage shows blood streaming from his wound as shocked onlookers scattered. When reports surfaced that Kirk's condition was uncertain, the media vultures were already circling with their victim-blaming narratives.
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My blood boils when I think about the stabbing of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska partly because, in watching the video, I could almost see what was coming next. Being new to America, Iryna was not aware of some basic safety precautions that most natives take for granted when traveling in Democrat cities.
First, there is no way that I would sit down with my back to a Rastaman-looking character like Decarlos Brown Jr. In fact, I probably would have moved to another train car. However, Iryna sensed no peril. Apparently, none of her American friends had sat her down and gave her a heads up on life in America.
A history of violence
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The assassination of Charlie Kirk is a horrific reminder that the left is based on nothing other than terror, violence, and aggression.
This has been true since Karl howled to Friedrich that the bourgeois would someday pay for his plague of skin boils. The history of the Left is a history of violence. Scarcely a single leftist government has gained power without violence or the threat of violence. No leftist government has ever remained in power without violence.
Violence is built into the very foundations of leftist ideology. Marx himself fantasized in print over the apocalyptic events that would accompany the revolution of the proletariat
A Lamb To The Slaughter
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The biggest emotion that we should feel about the senseless and needless tragedy on the light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina—after the outrage has faded just a bit—is incredible sadness.
How can it be that in a nation that calls itself “The Land of Free and the Home of the Brave,” which welcomes immigrants looking for a better life—how can that nation produce such a monstrous occurrence that transpired in Charlotte?
If any video personifies the phrase, “a lamb to the slaughter,” the video from that horrific event—ubiquitous on the internet—is it. This innocent young woman, Iryna Zarutska, was just coming home from a low-paying restaurant job at a pizzeria,
Charlie Kirk, a lifelong advocate for free speech, the leader of the nation’s preeminent conservative youth organization, and a beloved confidant of the first family, was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon while speaking with students at Utah Valley University.
President Trump confirmed the news in a post on Truth Social, writing that Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, “was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us.” Flags at the White House were lowered to half-staff in his honor. Kirk was 31. He is survived by his wife and two young children.
A shocking new video has surfaced that shows an alleged shooter running above the roof after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. According to the New York Times, UVU spokeswoman Ellen Treanor confirmed that Kirk was struck by gunfire from a shooter positioned at the Losee Center, a building roughly 200 yards away from where Kirk was addressing students.[snip]John Solomon told Steve Bannon that while details are still emerging, early indications suggest Charlie Kirk’s assassination may have been a calculated professional hit.
Charlie Kirk is no longer with us. The conservative activist, host, and founder of Turning Point USA was assassinated at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, today. He was 31. He leaves behind his wife, Erika, and two children. A shooter took a single shot, striking Kirk in the neck. The footage is ghastly. He was rushed to the hospital but did not survive.
As condolences and thoughts and prayers pour in, you can leave it to MSNBC to peddle gun control and other personal attacks on Kirk, who promoted freedom
Minutes after the news broke that conservative influencer and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at Utah Valley University, ABC News broke in and seemingly suggested he had it coming for his “controversial” views and for going to a campus that didn’t want him there. “ABC news has confirmed conservative activists and podcaster Charlie Kirk has been shot during an event at Utah Valley University,” announced correspondent Kyra Phillips. “The founder of Turning Point USA, a conservative student organization, is known for his outspoken views on politics, culture, religion, often taking his messages to colleges and universities,
Several actors and celebrities across the political spectrum condemned the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk on Wednesday with no equivocations.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator), a staunch critic of President Trump, called Kirk’s assassination a “horrible tragedy” and pleaded with Americans to find their better angels.
“My heart is with Charlie Kirk’s family, and with the United States. Politics has become a disease in this country, and it’s deadly. But don’t listen to the pessimists who say there is no cure. There is a cure. It is inside of us. We must find our better angels and walk back from the extremes.
Charlie Kirk’s assassination will change American politics forever by prompting a long-overdue crackdown on the radical left.
Had this horrific event taken place under a Democratic administration, we would expect that attention would focus on gun control.
Because it has taken place under a Republican administration that has already taken aim at the bastions of the institutional left, we can expect a dramatic law enforcement response.
Gone are the days when then-FBI Director Christopher Wray would waffle
Charlie Kirk should be alive today. He should be at home tonight with his beautiful wife and their two little children—three bright futures entwined with his own, now stolen away forever. He should be grinning that irrepressible grin, telling stories, cracking jokes, and planning his next campus stop. Instead, he was gunned down in Utah while doing what he always did: speaking directly to anyone willing to listen.
Charlie had a gift that made him unique in our movement. He carried himself like everyone’s little brother — fearless, approachable, quick with a smile.
Charlie Kirk, R.I.P.
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God help us.
An assassin shot and killed Charlie Kirk at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. Kirk grew to fame by bringing an unapologetically conservative message to college students. On Wednesday, he was doing just that before a massive crowd on campus.
As of this writing, there is a lot we don’t know about this depraved crime, including the identity of the shooter. But what we do know is that the murder of Kirk, while he was engaging with young Americans, is a tragic loss for his wife and two children and a shocking event
Violence Against Conservatives is Nothing
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On Wedneday afternoon, I was in studio doing a long-form podcast interview. One of the questions the host asked me during the interview was whether I had been personally attacked or been confronted with violence because of my investigative writing and political work. I told the host that so far I had been fortunate that any violence that has been spewed at me were only words on the screen. Two hours later, I completed the interview and got into my car. When I turned on the radio, I heard the news that TPUSA co-founder and CEO Charlie Kirk had been shot, and it was possibly catastrophic. Immediately it hit me