Sept. 12, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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We got him. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, we are live and ready as, praise God, this morning, Charlie Kirk's killer has been captured. | ||
| I can report to you. | ||
| Charlie Kirk's killer is in federal custody after a 20-hour manhunt. | ||
| I'm just doing the rough math. | ||
| Charlie's killing on Wednesday today. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. | ||
| It is the 12th of September, 2025. | ||
| And Charlie Kirk's killer has been announced first and live by President Trump in custody. | ||
| And Donald Trump gave some major details. | ||
| And we are going to be having a press conference live in moments from Utah with the full force of the FBI. | ||
| The full force of the FBI was live last night, late into the small hours of the evening, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino in Utah personally, in Utah, joining the manhunt. | ||
| And they got him, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Surprising source revealed who the shooter was. | ||
| Let's go ahead and read the top line here, and then we'll go straight to President Trump. | ||
| Klein, let me know. | ||
| Rocking and rolling. | ||
| Okay, fantastic. | ||
| Top line here. | ||
| President Trump was live just seconds ago. | ||
| We have the clips for you. | ||
| Donald Trump revealed that the person who allegedly assassinated Charlie Kirk during an event in Utah is now in custody. | ||
| I think with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody, the president told Fox and Friends this morning. | ||
| Sources told the Daily Mail that the suspect is Tyler Robinson, a 21-year-old man from Washington, Utah. | ||
| Tyler Robinson. | ||
| The shooter confessed to his father that he was the perpetrator. | ||
| CNN reported. | ||
| The man's father tipped off law enforcement and secured his son until officers arrived. | ||
| Sources told CNN the individual was being questioned on Friday morning. | ||
| Trump said that somebody who was very close to the suspect turned him in. | ||
| He said that the tipster may have been the assassin's minister. | ||
| The minister of the assassin. | ||
| Remarkable. | ||
| All this is changing in short order and quick time. | ||
| Law enforcement will share the details about the suspect's arrest later, the president said. | ||
| I want to show you very quickly the shot for the FBI live press conference here in Utah. | ||
| We will be witnessing live soon. | ||
| This is the live shot soon, the entire breakdown of how this happened. | ||
| Tyler Robinson, a 21-year-old, is the monster who murdered Charlie Kirk in a political assassination. | ||
| President Trump announcing that he is no longer at large and that Tyler Robinson has been caught here, stunning the world moments ago on Fox and Friends. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Yesterday, you were at the 9-11 Memorial. | ||
| We were all watching that. | ||
| JD Vance was supposed to be with you. | ||
| He went out to be with Charlie Kirk's family and to get the body back to his hometown in Arizona. | ||
| And you said you were going to award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is very nice of you. | ||
| Any updates on the suspect? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Can I always say, I think just to protect us all, and so Fox doesn't get sued, and we all don't get sued and everything else. | ||
| But I think with a high degree of certainty, we have him. | ||
| We're in custody. | ||
| In custody. | ||
| Everyone did a great job. | ||
| We worked with the local police, the governor. | ||
| Everybody did a great job. | ||
| You know, getting somebody that you start off with absolutely nothing. | ||
| And we started off with a clip that made him look like an ant that was almost useless. | ||
| We just saw somebody up there. | ||
| And so much work has been done over the last two and a half days. | ||
| You know, it's amazing, actually, when you start off with that and then all of a sudden you get lucky or talent or whatever it is. | ||
| But yeah, I think we're in great shape. | ||
| He's in custody. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, let's continue to read, please. | ||
| This is Charlie Kirk's breaking news. | ||
| President Trump. | ||
| That was from less than 10 minutes ago. | ||
| Donald Trump saying that the shooter was in custody. | ||
| It was a minister who was involved with law enforcement. | ||
| A good friend is a top U.S. Marshal, and they took it from there, Trump said, suggesting that the father and the preacher, the pastor of the shooter, turned him in. | ||
| Law enforcement will share more details on the arrest later today at a press conference, of course, that we will cover live in seconds or as soon as it starts. | ||
| Neither the FBI nor Utah Department of Safety have confirmed Trump's announcement. | ||
| Trump's announcement came just two days after the conservative luminary was gunned down. | ||
| Conservative luminary, I really like that. | ||
| I would like to call him a martyr, but I really like luminaries, the way to describe Charlie Kirk. | ||
| Trump's announcement two days after the conservative luminary was gunned down during an event at a college campus in Utah in a horrific moment that was captured on video and shared across the globe. | ||
| Trump said that he wants to see the killer get the death penalty and of the assassination of the man he described as the finest person. | ||
| This is him describing Charlie Kirk. | ||
| President Trump describing the method at which they caught, again, we will name Tyler Robinson. | ||
| Tyler Robinson. | ||
| Klein, would you please put that up? | ||
| This is all that we were able to see yesterday. | ||
| Yesterday, we had some grainy photos of Tyler Robinson. | ||
| Yeah, thank you very much. | ||
| Breaking news, grainy photos of Tyler Robinson. | ||
| Here he is. | ||
| Of course, this was maddening because it's very, very difficult. | ||
| I mean, it's hard to even make out whether this is a man or a woman. | ||
| It's just tough. | ||
| It's just tough these days. | ||
| There was wild speculation as to who it was, as to what was going on, as to what this individual was. | ||
| Then later in the day, approximately 10 p.m., they released these, I guess you could call them higher quality photographs, still relatively distorted and tough to see. | ||
| Face obscured, hat on, sunglasses. | ||
| The FBI said this is the person of interest and you must help us find him. | ||
| They did not release a name. | ||
| Then late last night, the FBI released some grainy footage. | ||
| ALX, let me know if we have loaded again, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Please stay with us. | ||
| We are live the instant that we heard this news. | ||
| So please stay with us as we gather some of the assets live on the show. | ||
| The FBI released some very grainy footage of the perpetrator running across a rooftop, jumping off the building, potentially hurting themselves as they jumped off the building, wandering through a neighborhood with a limp. | ||
| Some people speculate that limp was a firearm that was inside of the leg of the pants. | ||
| Now we know the name of the suspect, 21-year-old Tyler Robinson. | ||
| 21 years old. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| 21 years old. | ||
| Little pieces of evidence like this one coming out. | ||
| This is a video from TMZ. | ||
| And you can see here the suspect from what would be a home security camera walking with a very discernible limp. | ||
| This is probably the most demonstrable video that we have of the assassin. | ||
| This is the clearest and the cleanest video we have of the assassin. | ||
| You can see that very heavy limp. | ||
| Is that because there is a long rifle potentially being contained within the clothing of the assassin? | ||
| This is the assassin escaping after the shooting, escaping after the shooting through the fields and into the woods. | ||
| You'll see here the moment that we believe that the firearm, if the official story is to be believed, is discarded into the woods, the firearm is taken right here, and you'll be able to see the assassin after murdering Charlie Kirk in a political assassination. | ||
| Head to the tree line. | ||
| And so it was maddening because this is all that we had. | ||
| We had very grainy, very difficult footage. | ||
| It was very hard to see it. | ||
| President Trump saying actually what got him was his father and his minister. | ||
| Listen to this. | ||
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Suspicion was that he was radical left. | |
| And now you have more information. | ||
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What can you share with us about his ideology? | |
| Yeah, Lawrence, let me just, and by the way, Lawrence is doing a good job. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| I'll tell you why. | ||
| I'm very proud of you. | ||
| I said you were going to do well. | ||
| But yeah, I think that I don't want to go too far. | ||
| I'd like to tell you some stories at how it happened. | ||
| But essentially, somebody that was very close to him turned him in. | ||
| And that happens when you had some of those good shots. | ||
| Somebody is going to say, whether it's a parent or whatever, I'd rather not say right now. | ||
| They're going to announce it today sometime later, probably talk about that. | ||
| But somebody close to him turned him and, you know, they said, whoa, it's interesting. | ||
| Well, we had very good pictures, but not great, not perfect. | ||
| And when you look at it, what happened is somebody, and this happens a lot, it happened with the crazy Boston bomber. | ||
| It happened with others. | ||
| Somebody that's close recognizes even a little tilt of the head, which nobody else would do. | ||
| And somebody that was very close to him said, hmm, that's him. | ||
| And essentially went to the father, went to a U.S. Marshal who was fantastic, by the way. | ||
| And the person was involved with law enforcement, but was a person of faith, a minister. | ||
| And they brought him to a U.S. Marshal who was fantastic. | ||
| And the father convinced the son, this is it. | ||
| And again, I'm always subject to be corrected, but I'm just giving you, based on what I'm hearing, they'll give you much more active. | ||
| I just heard about it five minutes before I walked in. | ||
| As I'm walking in, they said, looking real good. | ||
| They have the person that they wanted. | ||
| So you have breaking news, don't you? | ||
| We always have breaking news, Ansley. | ||
| Sean, Sean's going to be very disappointed that we're not doing it on his show. | ||
| He'll be very thankful and appreciative of the police officers that got this out. | ||
| They did a great job. | ||
| Everybody, and everybody worked together. | ||
| Pam Bondi is incredible, by the way. | ||
| People don't know what a star she is. | ||
| She's incredible. | ||
| And it all worked out. | ||
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Can I ask you just some clarification? | |
| So a pastor was able to turn him in or they got the family of the shooter to turn them in? | ||
| Well, it was a minister. | ||
| And the minister went to a friend, a minister who was involved with law enforcement, by the way. | ||
| And his good friend is a top U.S. Marshal. | ||
| And they took it from there. | ||
| And then it was a father got involved, namely his father, and said, we're going to go in. | ||
| So I understand it. | ||
| And again, subject to change, but the facts are the facts. | ||
| We have the person that we think is the person we're looking for. | ||
| But they drove into the police headquarters, and he's there now. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, some conflicting reports, not that it is Tyler Robinson, are caught, but other conflicting reports here of his age, Tyler Robinson, 22-year-old, identified as Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin, President Trump, saying that I'm breaking this news right now. | ||
| I heard about it just five minutes ago. | ||
| And we were live five minutes after that, ladies and gentlemen, to bring you this tough news. | ||
| Because it's still not real. | ||
| Even if you see the caskets, it's still not real. | ||
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Charlie's gone. | |
| Hit me yesterday when I was watching JD Vance carry his casket. | ||
| JD Vance walking with Charlie Kirk's casket yesterday out to Air Force 2. | ||
| Was that even real? | ||
| How is the words Charlie Kirk's casket even real? | ||
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Here he goes, alighted. | |
| God's servant onto the wings of heaven. | ||
| The man that I knew, the most constant mover, somebody who literally never rest and never slept, being delivered to eternal rest, carried by our U.S. military Air Force and also by JD Vance there personally as Charlie Kirk's wife watches on boarding Air Force 2 and that plane arrived in Phoenix. | ||
| Air Force 2 carried Charlie Kirk's casket to Phoenix where there was a massive amount of people waiting for him at the airport. | ||
| And of course, we will show you all of that. | ||
| Visuals around the planet, by the way, for Charlie Kirk, vigils around the world. | ||
| We will cover them. | ||
| Let's continue to read here and we will continue to play for you, President Trump, breaking news, breaking news clips from President Trump, breaking news about how the capture of Tyler Robinson, either 22 or 21-year-old from Utah, the killer of Charlie Kirk, turned in by his father with the assistance of his minister. | ||
| Minister. | ||
| Is he Mormon? | ||
| I don't want to make speculations. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| I will very much look forward to the FBI press conference. | ||
| Again, that is now scheduled for 9.30. | ||
| 9.30 will be our press conference here in the better part of 12 minutes from now. | ||
| Here is our live shot. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino physically on the ground, physically on the ground. | ||
| They were at September 11th Memorials early in the morning at ground zero. | ||
| And then both of them aborted a plane and landed in Utah for this specific manhunt. | ||
| President Trump's announcement came two days after the conservative luminary was gunned down during an event at a college campus in a horrific moment captured on video across the globe. | ||
| Trump said that he wants to see the killer get the death penalty for the assassination of the man he described as the finest person, Charlie Kirk. | ||
| Well, it's going to be found. | ||
| Well, I hope he's going to be found guilty, I would imagine, and I hope that he gets the death penalty, Trump said. | ||
| What he did, Charlie Kirk, he was the finest person that he didn't deserve this. | ||
| He worked so hard and so well, and everybody liked him. | ||
| Utah Governor Spencer Cox has signaled that he plans to seek the death penalty as well. | ||
| In Utah, we have the death penalty, and you have a very good governor there, President Trump says. | ||
| The governor, I've gotten to know him. | ||
| The governor is very intent on the death penalty in this case. | ||
| The president has traveled to his longtime home of New York City in order to watch a New York Yankees game for September 11th, the remembrance of the game. | ||
| He stayed overnight and went to the studio, Fox and Friends, in person. | ||
| The apparent arrest comes after officials said just hours earlier they had no idea where the shooter was. | ||
| This has been, of course, a very swift action by the feds. | ||
| Thankfully, you can see here what I was talking about. | ||
| Now, I know that there's a corresponding video to this. | ||
| Let me know, producers, if we have that loaded. | ||
| There's corresponding video to this that shows the shooter dead to rights, running across the rooftop in the seconds after Charlie Kirk's killing, jumping from this ledge, collapsing down onto the ground, and then limping again. | ||
| So I have no idea if he has a limp, if he was concealing a gun. | ||
| What is peculiar about this footage is that there is no firearm directly visible. | ||
| What is strange about this footage, Klein, let me know when we have it loaded up, is that there is no firearm that you can see the individual carrying. | ||
| Now, again, it's this very grainy security footage. | ||
| So I am not going to get ahead of the feds here. | ||
| I'm not going to get ahead of the FBI. | ||
| And I'm, of course, not going to get ahead of President Trump, who just broke this news seconds ago. | ||
| Here is the footage, ladies and gentlemen, of the perpetrator of the killer wandering the rooftop. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| So here you see the suspect ran behind that upper building. | ||
| He's going to come out on the right, moves to this far right corner. | ||
| As he does, he's going to climb off the edge and then drop down to the ground. | ||
| As he did that, he left some palm impressions. | ||
| There's some smudges in some places we're looking to collect DNA. | ||
| There's a shoe imprint where we believe the suspect is clearly identified as wearing converse tennis shoes. | ||
| Again, we'll replay that again so you can get another view of that. | ||
| It's important to note his black t-shirt, his black pants, and there appears to be some white on the soles of those converse tennis shoes. | ||
| Those are all identifiable items that we're looking for. | ||
| In the stills that are going to follow this, you're going to see a very distinctive t-shirt with an American flag and appears to have an eagle on it. | ||
| There's also a baseball cap with a triangle on it and a pair of sunglasses. | ||
| All distinctive, all things that we would ask the public to look for and try to identify if they know someone who has those items, who has been seen wearing those items. | ||
| We're looking for all that information. | ||
| Here you see the suspect after dropping off the building. | ||
| He moved around across this grassy area around the parking lot. | ||
| We're going to pan to the right. | ||
| After he crosses the street, this is where he moves over into the wooded area. | ||
| This is the video evidence that we utilize to track his movements and to locate that firearm in that wooded area following the discovery of this evidence. | ||
| Again, I'm not trying to create wild speculation. | ||
| I look forward to the FBI press conference, of which we will broadcast all of it in full for you the second that they go live. | ||
| Right now, it is still an empty dais. | ||
| Here it is, right there. | ||
| This is the live shot, and our best in the world production team is ready to let a rip as soon as we know anything from the FBI. | ||
| We hear that it will be a briefing by Kash Patel, that Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are both physically there, physically present for this briefing. | ||
| The concern or curiosity that I have about these instances, given this video, which is the video of the perpetrator walking toward the killer, walking toward the Charlie Kirk event with a massive limp. | ||
| How is he getting the firearm in? | ||
| Was the firearm placed there in the sniper's nest ahead of time? | ||
| How are you able to get a long gun, non-collapsible 3006 long gun into this location? | ||
| We know Charlie Kirk's security team. | ||
| Charlie Kirk's security team is some of the most equipped, sharpest, and best men that we've ever met. | ||
| Many of them are veterans. | ||
| Many of them are GWAT veterans. | ||
| Many of them have been in close combat and served in very dangerous combat situation. | ||
| Charlie Kirk traveled nowhere without a phalanx of very trusted, well-armed, well-equipped, best-in-class security. | ||
| So someone must have, thank you, Klein, right there. | ||
| This shooter, Tyler Robinson, the killer, this was deeply premeditated. | ||
| They were also flanked by three different sheriff's offices, we have now learned that day. | ||
| There were police officers there, and according to eyewitnesses, there were paramilitary group, paramilitary groups. | ||
| I don't know who they belonged to, but there were boys kitted out to either SWAT or some manner of special forces, state or local or federal, I don't know. | ||
| But they were there instantly up after this shooting. | ||
| So what I'm trying to say here is there was a abundance of law enforcement and security there at this event. | ||
| Now, here's the sniper's nest, according to the FBI. | ||
| Thank you, Klein. | ||
| And what you can see here is the direct shot down to Charlie Kirk. | ||
| You can see right there, if there's a way we can zoom, you can see the small, yeah, let us just load this very quickly. | ||
| You'll be able to see the tent. | ||
| It might be a little small here, but you can zoom quite efficiently down to the tent where Charlie Kirk is doing his question and answers. | ||
| And then you can see the absolute direct line of sight from where the sniper would be set up, 250 yards away. | ||
| You can see on top of the building, which is covered in gravel, the impressions, not large impressions that were left by 21 or 22-year-old Tyler Robinson when he laid down in a prone position. | ||
| How did he get the gun there? | ||
| This is what the FBI is saying. | ||
| Are his markings up on the roof? | ||
| And more importantly, or as importantly, where exactly is the firearm in the video right here of Tyler Robinson? | ||
| Where is the firearm right here? | ||
| Again, I look forward to the FBI answering these questions. | ||
| Is it slung across his back? | ||
| I don't see it. | ||
| Where is the firearm there? | ||
| Just questions that I look forward to the FBI answering. | ||
| But if the gun was deposited into the woods, well, where is it exactly? | ||
| Is it some type of 30 odd six that, I mean, the photo that they showed us of the firearm is a non-collapsible full barrel and full stock 30 out 6. | ||
| So that's a hole in the story that I'm looking forward to having answered. | ||
| But this is what we have so far. | ||
| This footage released for the first time at approximately 11 p.m. last night, approximately 11 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. | ||
| There's some movement in our FBI live shot, but it's just photographers and press. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, that is the question that is on the top of my mind, which is how did this monster get a firearm into this event? | ||
| Again, I want to throw down on something. | ||
| Charlie Kirk has an unbelievable security team. | ||
| They are trained professionals. | ||
| They are men, many of them have seen war themselves. | ||
| Charlie Kirk also often flanked by local and state authorities at these events, just given the nature of them. | ||
| And so, as everyone could see, there was deep premeditation, planning, sophistication, and targeting that occurred here. | ||
| And I want to learn how that happened. | ||
| I want to learn some of the gaps in the story here. | ||
| This wasn't just some dude that decided to come up. | ||
| And here we go. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I mean, can you conceal that? | ||
| Would you be able to conceal under your, in your shirt? | ||
| Well, certainly not in the photos that I saw, but I look, again, forward to the FBI answering these questions. | ||
| This, the murder weapon. | ||
| And according to initial reports, ALX, have they walked this back? | ||
| According to initial reports, the murder weapon engraved with political iconography and messaging of far-left radical groups. | ||
| I'm basing that reporting on a leak from Steven Crowder yesterday, which seemed to be validated by a Wall Street Journal piece, but then there's been some conflicting reports. | ||
| Potentially engraved. | ||
| We'll wait. | ||
| Hopefully the FBI will clear this up for us. | ||
| Potentially engraved. | ||
| I'll put the evidence up here on screen. | ||
| Potentially engraved with Antifa. | ||
| This would be anti-fascist here in the commentary from the ATF and transgender ideology markings on the bullet shell casings. | ||
| That's just the reporting that's out there. | ||
| I do not want to give you incorrect information, but I also don't want to hold back on the conversations that people are having as long as they're in good faith. | ||
| So there it is. | ||
| Let's continue. | ||
| President Trump demanding the death penalty. | ||
| President Trump demanding the death penalty along with the governor of Utah demanding the death penalty. | ||
| Now, obviously, this is going to be a federal case, but state jurisdiction will also apply here. | ||
| And a state trial can also apply here. | ||
| You can also be charged on state level. | ||
| You can be charged concurrently, state and federal and local charges. | ||
| They can bring them all. | ||
| The preponderance of bringing so many charges, you could be given the death penalty. | ||
| You could be given the death penalty by multiple courts in multiple venues, a federal venue and a local venue, making it all but impossible to avoid it. | ||
| For Tyler Robinson, a man who is just a few, a man who is 10 years younger than Charlie. | ||
| What the hell is going on? | ||
| Charlie was 31. | ||
| Tyler Robinson, reportedly 21. | ||
| President Trump saying Tyler Robinson will be receiving the death penalty. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Did the father know about what the son had done? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm going to let you get all those questions later because I can't tell you how accurate. | ||
| The bottom line is they have somebody that they think did it. | ||
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So, Mr. President, there is the death penalty in Utah. | |
| And I do know this is going to be a federal case. | ||
| And there's many of us believe that Charlie was targeted because of this political ideology. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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What's going to happen to this guy? | |
| Well, I hope he's going to be found guilty, I would imagine. | ||
| And I hope he gets the death penalty. | ||
| What he did, Charlie Kirk was the finest person. | ||
| He didn't deserve this. | ||
| He worked so hard and so well. | ||
| Everybody liked him. | ||
| I've been watching, even the left is having a hard time. | ||
| They fired this guy, Dowd, from MS DNC, who's a terrible guy, terrible human being, but they fired him. | ||
| I hear they're firing other people. | ||
| And, you know, we're talking about radical left. | ||
| Now, they're a little bit, but radical left networks and cable channels, horrible channels like MS. I always call it DNC because it's somehow affiliated with the Democrat National Committee. | ||
| So, you know, it's a little statement you make, but MSNBC, but NBC, ABC, CBS, they're all terrible, absolutely terrible and unfair. | ||
| But even they have been giving it sort of like this can't be allowed to happen. | ||
| All right, ladies and gentlemen, I know that we have considerably more viewers right now than when we started. | ||
| So a very quick update here. | ||
| Breaking news. | ||
| Tyler Robinson is the name of Charlie Kirk's killer. | ||
| He is 22 years old. | ||
| Everything that we know about him. | ||
| President Trump calling. | ||
| President Trump calling for the death penalty. | ||
| Let's read the Daily Mail very quick on these things. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Look at, it's just, is this a photo? | ||
| Robinson was a student at Utah Valley University. | ||
| The Daily Mail can confirm. | ||
| Here he is wearing similar clothing with a similar hat and eyeglasses. | ||
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Here he is eating sushi. | |
| What the hell's going on here? | ||
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What is this? | |
| And what about the guy that stood up and claimed that he was the shooter afterward? | ||
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What is this? | |
| Okay, this is the full. | ||
| Yes, it has the same shoes and everything. | ||
| Producers, as the identity now is out, let's go ahead, of course, and scrape the internet for everything we can possibly know about Somebody who, on first look, I mean, certainly doesn't appear to be some type of deranged ideologue, right? | ||
| So it's like you can see these people that have blue hair, nose rings, face tattoos, you know, you know, wearing rainbow garbage bags, freaking out, like overly medicated. | ||
| You know, there are those style of activists that are, you know, walking around with bullhorns everywhere. | ||
| This looks banal. | ||
| Let's read. | ||
| Let's read. | ||
| The suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination has been identified as Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old student in Utah. | ||
| Law enforcement told Daily Mail that Robinson was taken into custody as the alleged assassin who killed Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. | ||
| The alleged killer confessed to his father, a 27-year-old veteran of the county's sheriff department. | ||
| So he's the son of a cop. | ||
| His father then contacted authorities before it could be taken into custody. | ||
| His mother, Amber Robinson, works for the Intermountain Support Coordination Services, a company contacted by the state of Utah to help disabled people receive care. | ||
| So state services. | ||
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Okay. | |
| They're doing mic checks right now for the FBI live press conference, which we will go to as soon as, as soon as they go live. | ||
| Right now, it's just simply mic checks for the press. | ||
| Amber Robinson, again, I'm not trying to create wild speculation, but Matthew Thomas Crooks's parents also worked inside of state care for counseling, state care counseling, Matthew Thomas Crooks, the would-be assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania, who also fired from a rooftop at President Trump, striking him in the head, killing a member of the MAGA movement. | ||
| There are some similarities. | ||
| There are some not. | ||
| Robinson was a student at the university where Charlie Kirk was shot and killed and murdered. | ||
| Robinson was taken into custody around 11 p.m. local time. | ||
| He lives in a $600,000 six-bedroom home in Washington, Utah, about 260 miles south of Kirk's assassination in Orem, Utah. | ||
| Officials have yet to confirm the motive of the assassination authorities said at a press conference that Robinson will face the death penalty. | ||
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Look at this. | |
| It just looks like a, I mean, again, like, again, I don't know how else to explain it. | ||
| Like the gamer setup here. | ||
| It just looks, it just looks normie. | ||
| It's the right word for it. | ||
| Normie. | ||
| You go to these college campuses and I go to plenty. | ||
| You go to these turning point events and I go to plenty. | ||
| You go to far left protests and I go to plenty. | ||
| And there are people who identify themselves like some of the most poisonous animals in nature, right? | ||
| Bright colors, shrieking. | ||
| You know, they do what you do when you're a dangerous animal naturally, you know, in nature. | ||
| When you go, when you're going to the Amazon, stay away from very colorful neon frogs, right? | ||
| They're the most poisonous ones. | ||
| Same thing with activists. | ||
| Dyeing their hair, shrieking, screaming. | ||
| A lot of times they don't, they like virtually never look like this. | ||
| So what's going on here? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Trump announced the arrest on Fox News. | ||
| Robinson Ross comes after a manhunt, stretched out a day and a half. | ||
| The officials previously offering a reward of $100,000. | ||
| Surveillance footage has been released showing the figure on top of the roof. | ||
| We played that for you. | ||
| Sprinting away into a nearby neighborhood. | ||
| The alleged killer was found after multiple suspects were incorrectly apprehended. | ||
| Initial person of interest was in custody. | ||
| However, they were later released. | ||
| Multiple people of interest were in custody and later released. | ||
| The suspect in custody has been released. | ||
| They did this twice. | ||
| The conservative commentator was hit by a single bullet while speaking at a crowd. | ||
| Single bullet. | ||
| I believe that this is the father right here. | ||
| Yes, that's right. | ||
| The alleged killers confessed to his father, a 27-year veteran of the sheriff's department. | ||
| You can see his father here wearing some type of patriotic tactical gear. | ||
| I don't know exactly what kind of shirt that is. | ||
| It's a big firearm community in Utah. | ||
| Obviously, Utah is a very Second Amendment-friendly state. | ||
| A lot of places to shoot, a lot of places to operate, a lot of places to train. | ||
| Kirk was answering questions about mass shootings seconds before he was struck and rushed to the hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. | ||
| Kirk Lee is behind his wife Erica. | ||
| He has a three-year-old daughter and a son, 16 months. | ||
| The couple celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary in May. | ||
| President Donald Trump led the tributes to the great and legendary Charlie Kirk. | ||
| Again, you'll remember this. | ||
| They apprehended this older man potentially as the killer. | ||
| It turned out that he was not. | ||
| Those are very strange. | ||
| The initial on-the-ground reports was that this man screamed, I'm the shooter, I'm the shooter. | ||
| Thus taking law enforcement, the resources from law enforcement and applying them to him in the crowd. | ||
| You can see here, a considerable, you know, you can see here, law enforcement quickly. | ||
| I have no idea if this is local, state, campus. | ||
| But again, I've been to these events with Charlie. | ||
| I've not said this on the live. | ||
| We're supposed to be with him in Montana this week. | ||
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Next week. | |
| The next stop was in Montana. | ||
| and I was to appear with Charlie at that stop. | ||
| This, of course, will not deter us. | ||
| We will continue the work of Charlie. | ||
| There's so much happening right now. | ||
| I assume that we will be in Phoenix, Arizona sometime soon to regroup with the Turning Point USA leadership and so on, with whom I'm very proud to have helped partner and build so much of these events in the last few years. | ||
| But I suppose I just don't want to get ahead of myself announcing anything or telling, you know, making any announcements here because I just, I frankly, I don't know. | ||
| All staff, this has been reported, but all staff operations, of course, at turning point, have been put on hold right now, of course. | ||
| And again, that's been reported for obvious reasons as we process what's going on. | ||
| Like, what is this? | ||
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The hell is this? | |
| Do we have more? | ||
| ALX, you're so good at this. | ||
| Where? | ||
| Do we have more? | ||
| Have we scraped anything else? | ||
| Okay, there we go. | ||
| Goodness gracious. | ||
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Here we go. | |
| Him talking about a scholarship. | ||
| We have a video of him. | ||
| This is a video of Tyler Robinson talking about his scholarship. | ||
| It's wild because we have a similar video of Matthew Thomas Crooks. | ||
| Please grab that. | ||
| We have a very similar video of Matthew Thomas Crooks, Trump's Trump's would-be assassin that successfully hit Trump in the head with a bullet Standing and delivering a speech that looks almost exactly like this. | ||
| I'm just processing this live. | ||
| I'm watching this for the first time with you. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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Congratulations. | |
| You have been selected to receive the resident presidential scholarship from Utah State University. | ||
| The value of this scholarship is approximately $32,000. | ||
| This scholarship is available for four years or eight semesters. | ||
| Everything's speculation, but you can see the same thing that I'm seeing. | ||
| He just seems like a normie. | ||
| He seems like a normie. | ||
| I have been, I have been, hey, producers, everyone lock in, please. | ||
| I need every producer on right now, like getting me that Matthew Thomas Crooks video. | ||
| It's the same video. | ||
| I'm not trying to create some type of wild speculation here. | ||
| I'm just saying that we have so little on Matthew Thomas Crooks. | ||
| We have Matthew Thomas Crooks like reading a paper just like that, like in like talking to his family and then engaging in some in scholarship talk. | ||
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There it is. | |
| With so little, it's still to this day, we have vanishingly nothing on Matthew Thomas Crooks, the President Trump shooter. | ||
| But there are there are, I don't know, strange similarities where it's just normie behavior. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Listen. | ||
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Hello. | |
| My name is Thomas Crooks. | ||
| It has always been my passion to create and build things of my own. | ||
| Today, I want to tell you a little bit about myself, my academic goals, my passion for building things, my love of cooking with my family, and lastly, what I hope to achieve in this course. | ||
| I mean, it's just what I'm saying is it's just normie behavior. | ||
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That's all. | |
| Nothing about this shrieks or screams. | ||
| Like I am about to snap and I'm about to go, you know, on a killing spree of some of the single most powerful voices on planet Earth. | ||
| President Trump, Charlie Kirk. | ||
| This is the article. | ||
| Thank you, Klein. | ||
| This is from the New York Times of all places. | ||
| The quiet unraveling of the man who almost killed Trump. | ||
| And what this very long article, it's about three thousand words, but this long article signals to is that Matthew Thomas Crooks just was very lonely. | ||
| He began to spiral. | ||
| He began to engage in searches. | ||
| The very stunningly, because this wasn't his nature, but began to engage in searches for explosives and for explosive materials and for bomb building and for firearms. | ||
| And that happened very quickly. | ||
| You please put the article back up. | ||
| That happened very quickly. | ||
| This is, again, reporting here that is based on here. | ||
| And they were able to find that material in his room. | ||
| When they raided it, he was still living with his parents. | ||
| But there are some stark differences. | ||
| I don't, again, we're just talking through this because I'm watching this for the first time with you as well. | ||
| So is there also no social media for this guy? | ||
| So no social media for Matthew Thomas Crooks. | ||
| He's only like 20-year-old with no social media in the world. | ||
| And now there's no social media for Tyler Robinson or did they scrub it already? | ||
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We don't know. | |
| Can you please pop up my window? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| You can see here, obviously, this exact same pair of shoes that he's wearing. | ||
| You can see the same hat as well. | ||
| Same shoes, same hat, same sunglasses, I think. | ||
| It's hard to tell, but same sunglasses. | ||
| Of course, this is him. | ||
| This is him. | ||
| Tyler Robinson, the name of the Charlie Kirk killer. | ||
| Some other small, some other small perhaps photos from social media. | ||
| The dude had an IHOP. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's just normie life. | ||
| Just eating some pancakes. | ||
| Some eggs and some pancakes. | ||
| That an IHOP or a Perkins, some type of breakfast place. | ||
| We're giving you everything that we got. | ||
| It's the same thing as Matthew Thomas Crooks. | ||
| We know nothing about him. | ||
| He has no social media. | ||
| My producers are trying to comb through his social media. | ||
| Looks like here he went to Alaska. | ||
| Day six in Alaska. | ||
| We got to fly in a float. | ||
| We got to fly in a float plane. | ||
| First of all, so cool. | ||
| We were able to catch our limit of what looked like salmon there, obviously. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| This is from his mother's Facebook account. | ||
| Okay, so the mom has a Facebook account, but the son has no social media. | ||
| Again, again, you're just learning about this with me. | ||
| Okay, I'm not trying to create any wild speculation. | ||
| This is not the time for that. | ||
| What is this, though? | ||
| There are strange peculiarities. | ||
| Now, here are the things that are not peculiar, that are, that are not similar. | ||
| The things that are not similar between the two of them, if you would climb, please, the rooftop video. | ||
| We went to Butler, Pennsylvania. | ||
| We went to Butler, Pennsylvania. | ||
| Yeah, ALX says that they are still searching for his social media, that our production team is searching for his social media. | ||
| It is not confirmed that he has no social media, but it is not readily available to our production staff. | ||
| And we have very sharp and very, very good producers. | ||
| Here's the difference here, however. | ||
| The difference is when we were in Butler, Pennsylvania, we retraced the steps of Matthew Thomas Crooks and we created a documentary about that called the presidential killbox. | ||
| And what you were able to find about Matthew Thomas Crooks is that Matthew Thomas Crooks was, of course, never getting out of there alive. | ||
| It was a miracle that he even was able to not be apprehended that day. | ||
| Matthew Thomas Crooks, unlike Tyler Robinson, who has been on a near two-day manhunt and had to be turned in by his own family, the feds did not find him. | ||
| He had to be turned in by his family. | ||
| Matthew Thomas Crooks, throughout the day, before the MAGA rally in Butler was lumbering goofily and sloppily running into law enforcement, making himself a mark, trying to get into the event with a range finder, getting turned away by Secret Service, Secret Service trailing him, then local police trailing him, following him with a black backpack. | ||
| Matthew Thomas Crooks climbing clumsily up on a climbing clump. | ||
| I'm sorry, I've been saying Matthew Thomas Crooks is Thomas Matthew Crooks. | ||
| Climbing clumsily up on an air conditioning unit to get onto the AGR glass factory building. | ||
| That is the building that he used. | ||
| No sophistication at all. | ||
| Everyone was able to film from the ground. | ||
| Look, there is someone on the roof. | ||
| We've all seen the photos. | ||
| We've all seen the videos. | ||
| What the hell is that guy doing on the roof? | ||
| Does he got a gun? | ||
| That dude's got a gun. | ||
| Everyone saw him. | ||
| Everyone was yelling. | ||
| Everyone was freaking out. | ||
| There are videos from President Trump. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| Thank you, Alex. | ||
| There are videos from President Trump. | ||
| You can put it up here. | ||
| Look at how sloppy this was with Thomas Matthew Crooks. | ||
| You can see Trump giving his speech, and you can literally see Thomas Matthew Crooks lumbering like a jackass, clomping and lomping across the rooftop with his long gun, with his firearm. | ||
| An AR-15. | ||
| That's how obvious this was. | ||
| You can see it here clear as day. | ||
| This is how obvious it was. | ||
| It will remain, of course, the single greatest scandal in the history of federal law enforcement that Thomas Matthew Crooks was allowed to get his shots off at all. | ||
| But what I'm saying here is that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the difference is that Thomas Matthew Crooks went out of his way to tell everyone, hey, I'm an assassin. | ||
| I'm about to take shots at the president or the crowd. | ||
| He did both. | ||
| Killing Corey Comprotor. | ||
| Tyler Robinson, nobody saw him. | ||
| Up until moments ago, nobody knew what his name was. | ||
| The feds didn't know where he was. | ||
| They had to, thankfully, depend on his father and minister to turn him in, according to reports from President Trump. | ||
| he was able to stealthily get in and out of this execution of Charlie Kirk. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Plenty of opportunities because everyone was standing there just filming the lumbering jackass, Matthew Thomas, Thomas Matthew Crooks. | ||
| Everyone was like, look, he's got a gun. | ||
| Now, why the feds and Secret Service didn't do anything? | ||
| Let's have that conversation. | ||
| Not today, but we've had that conversation on this channel before. | ||
| Why no one caught him? | ||
| Why they allowed him? | ||
| Look at him. | ||
| Look at him. | ||
| There's no video of this, there's no video like this at all of the killing of Charlie Kirk, the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. | ||
| And now there is seemingly no motive. | ||
| Here is what looks like a screenshot. | ||
| Is this a screenshot of the mother's Facebook? | ||
| A scroll of the mother's Facebook. | ||
| It sort of just kind of looks like any mother's Facebook-like account. | ||
| Just like, it looks like he's got some brothers. | ||
| Just like a just Normie family, Normie Utah family. | ||
| This is his graduation photo there in the Red Rocks of Utah. | ||
| Just Normie stuff. | ||
| Same thing with Thomas Matthew Crooks. | ||
| I guess, were there warning signs? | ||
| I suppose. | ||
| I put up the New York Times article. | ||
| That's the best that we have of his internet search history. | ||
| That shows that he was engaging in, you know, he began to spiral and engage in some dangerous stuff, obviously anti-Trump stuff. | ||
| Do you remember the op? | ||
| The op was that he was a right-winger. | ||
| That was the op. | ||
| And what is this photo? | ||
| Is this some sporting event? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Producer Jerry is sending these. | ||
| So he does. | ||
| We have more on him, I suppose. | ||
| We had nothing on Thomas Matthew Crooks. | ||
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Nothing. | |
| But we have more on the Charlie Kirk killer, just based on some seemingly generic young man in America life. | ||
| Here he is. | ||
| Is that his mother? | ||
| Perhaps here another photo of him. | ||
| That's him driving. | ||
| Here's him giving his mother a hug, perhaps. | ||
| Is that correct? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Now, here's what's important about this photo: it's the same as on my screen, please. | ||
| You can see he's wearing the exact same outfit. | ||
| He's wearing the same shirt, sunglasses, and everything right there as that photo. | ||
| Same hat, sunglasses as the photo right before the Charlie Kirk killing. | ||
| What the hell is going on here? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| We await the FBI press conference. | ||
| We are here to give you as much information as we possibly can. | ||
| All of this is breaking. | ||
| All of this is happening live right now. | ||
| Soon, and let's pop up the screen. | ||
| You will be able to see the FBI's live press conference. | ||
| This is all that we've seen for the last hour. | ||
| We've now been live for an hour. | ||
| This is all that we've seen. | ||
| This has been the same shot. | ||
| They've done a couple mic tests. | ||
| Reporters have flooded into the room. | ||
| This was supposed to be live at nine o'clock. | ||
| It is now close to one hour late. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| Is this it? | ||
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Okay. | |
| Producers. | ||
| Yep. | ||
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Hello, hello, Tessie. | |
| Testing. | ||
| Hi, everyone. | ||
| We are four minutes out from starting the press conference. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| All right. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| So, hopefully, all these answers soon from the FBI. | ||
| Kash Patel was live at the press conference yesterday. | ||
| It was a very short press conference where they were able to give us this footage. | ||
| Here's the footage of Tyler Robinson wandering the rooftop and jumping off. | ||
| President Trump says they got him. | ||
| The FBI says they got him. | ||
| Do we have anything else? | ||
| Anything more? | ||
| Anything more on him? | ||
| I mean, like, you know, here at what seems to be a, can you put up the stadium shot again? | ||
| You know, here, what seems to be like him at a sporting event. | ||
| My producers are doing their best to scour social media to find anything further that we have. | ||
| I'm so perplexed. | ||
| I'm so confused. | ||
| Of course, the last thing that you want is some speculation in this moment or some type of pointing of the blame. | ||
| Here from the Daily Mail, if you would, thank you. | ||
| Everything we know about Charlie Kirk's assassins' parents, Matt and Amber. | ||
| Here, the Daily Mail has acquired another photo. | ||
| They have blurred the faces of the brothers of the killer. | ||
| Here are the two parents that seems to match the other photos that we have. | ||
| And here is Tyler Robinson. | ||
| Let's go ahead and read. | ||
| Team, please gather as much as we possibly can. | ||
| Again, an imminent press conference with the FBI, the eyes of the world watching. | ||
| The parents of Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, are law enforcement and a career care worker, veteran law enforcement, and career care worker. | ||
| What is happening here? | ||
| Law enforcement sources identified Robinson's 22-year-old Utah resident as the main suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. | ||
| Robinson was taken into custody on Thursday night in a southern southern Utah. | ||
| So, okay, so last night, not this morning, but last night, after having confessed to his father, his father is a 27-year-old veteran of the department. | ||
| The father has been then contacted with the authorities and secured his son before he could be taken into custody. | ||
| So the father locked him down, locked his son down. | ||
| His mother, Amber Robinson, works for Intermountain Support Coordination Services, a company contracted by the state for disabled people. | ||
| Robinson is a student at Utah Valley University. | ||
| The family's social media show Robinson has two younger brothers enjoying vacations and smiling faces and selfies celebrating the alleged killer getting into college. | ||
| We played you that clip. | ||
| Extremely normy behavior. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know what it is. | ||
| I can't explain it. | ||
| Officials have yet to confirm the motive. | ||
| Authorities say that the death penalty will be sought if convicted. | ||
| Trump announced the arrest. | ||
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So this is all that they have. | |
| So this is it. | ||
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Goodness gracious. | |
| And this is it. | ||
| Much of this is information that we have already covered. | ||
| Anything further? | ||
| All right. | ||
| So here he is at school. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, many of these photos coming from Facebook. | ||
| Here he is at an engineering building. | ||
| So perhaps an engineering student. | ||
| The same converses there on his feet. | ||
| The same sunglasses. | ||
| The same hat. | ||
| And it's him. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| So they were. | ||
| This looks like a so he's dressed up as Trump. | ||
| So he's dressed up as like President Trump carrying him on his back. | ||
| You can see there, an obvious President Trump Halloween costume, where it's like he's riding on Trump's shoulders and Trump is hoisting him like I do with my children. | ||
| And then his brother as a hunter with a long gun in what has to be some type of Halloween party at their house. | ||
| The father, a veteran of the police force. | ||
| The family long trips, nature trips, hunting trips. | ||
| Clearly, a family that knows their way around firearms because, well, one, it's Utah culture. | ||
| Two, the father's a cop. | ||
| Three, there's lots of hunting trips on their social media. | ||
| Goodness. | ||
| So there you have. | ||
| I mean, there's a bunch more. | ||
| Goodness gracious. | ||
| Yeah, there's a ton more here. | ||
| Just a bunch of photos. | ||
| Them at Red Rocks. | ||
| First days of school. | ||
| We're going to load all these. | ||
| Red lobster. | ||
| It's like, I don't, I don't understand. | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| Him out hunting and out in the wilderness, then out in the wilderness as a family. | ||
| Him catching catfish. | ||
| We're loading all these as they, you know, as they as they come in. | ||
| You go to my screen. | ||
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There you go. | |
| Here it's that. | ||
| This is Tyler Robinson. | ||
| This is the shooter. | ||
| Here he is with braces. | ||
| These are, I think, older photos, obviously. | ||
| But like the family going ziplining and catching fish together and going on vacations together. | ||
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What is this? | |
| Tyler Robinson dressing up as President Trump? | ||
| For Halloween? | ||
| Thank you, producers, for grabbing this. | ||
| Here you can see this is President Trump. | ||
| Can you try and find this costume? | ||
| This is President Trump, and there is the Charlie Kirk killer. | ||
| What the hell's going on? | ||
| I'm at a total and complete loss here. | ||
| There we go. | ||
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There you go. | |
| So, the Charlie Crook killer was wearing this costume not too long ago with a President Trump on his with a President Trump costume? | ||
| little inflatable Trump that like carries him. | ||
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It's, it's unexplainable. | |
| I'm I'm bewildered I'm concerned And I'm not going to engage in wild speculation, but yeah, I'm very concerned just normie behavior Here's my kids at an arcade. | ||
| Here's some Minecraft stuff. | ||
| They're at an arcade. | ||
| This is the Charlie Crook killer right here Here we are at Red Rocks Amphitheater At least that's what I believe this is quite famous. | ||
| We're gonna go see a show perhaps or a concert here at Red Rocks. | ||
| I have a churro This is the Charlie Crook killer at what has what is Red Lobster, right? | ||
| It's a totally red lobster eating some snow crab wearing the same t-shirt here. | ||
| He is out in the woods plenty of that in Utah with a German Shepherd. | ||
| The same converses, same converses. | ||
| Pickup truck. | ||
| What the hell is going on here? | ||
| i don't i don't understand i'm very thankful that there is a fbi press conference soon So perhaps we will have some answers. | ||
| The whole thing makes absolutely no sense. | ||
| Here he is at what is some type of Halloween event, perhaps. | ||
| Putting his head into a Frankenstein or bloody setup. | ||
| I'm not exactly sure what you call a Halloween house situation here. | ||
| And when given an opportunity to choose a Halloween costume, the shooter chose a Donald Trump costume. | ||
| It defies explanation. | ||
| Tyler Robinson is the shooter's name. | ||
| 22-year-old Tyler Robinson is the shooter's name. | ||
| And we're bewildered by what happened and confused. | ||
| It looks like just a normal American family. | ||
| It looks like any family in my hometown, any family in your hometown. | ||
| And ladies and gentlemen, here comes Dan Bongino and Kash Patel. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Hopefully some answers and answers soon. | ||
| We are live now. | ||
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At today's press conference, we will hear from Governor Cox, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Sheriff Mike Smith. | |
| We also have with us Utah DPS Commissioner Bo Mason, Lieutenant Governor Dietre Henderson, FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Bowles, and local and federal law enforcement partners. | ||
| Following the remarks today, Governor Cox, Director Patel, and Commissioner Mason will take questions. | ||
| Thank you. This is the governor. | ||
| Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We got him. | ||
| On the evening of September 11th, a family member of Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend who contacted the Washington County Sheriff's Office with information that Robinson had confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident. | ||
| This information was relayed to the Utah County Sheriff's Office and scene investigators at Utah Valley University. | ||
| This information was also conveyed to the FBI. | ||
| Investigators reviewed additional video footage from UVU surveillance and identified Robinson arriving on UVU campus in a gray Dodge Challenger at approximately 8.29 a.m. on September 10th, in which he is observed on video in a plain maroon t-shirt, light-colored shorts, a black hat with a white logo, and light-colored shoes. | ||
| When encountered in person by investigators in Washington County on September 12th, in the early morning hours, Robinson was observed in consistent clothing with those surveillance images. | ||
| Investigators interviewed a family member of Robinson who stated that Robinson had become more political in recent years. | ||
| The family member referenced a recent incident in which Robinson came to dinner prior to September 10th. | ||
| And in the conversation with another family member, Robinson mentioned Charlie Kirk was coming to UVU. | ||
| They talked about why they didn't like him and the viewpoints that he had. | ||
| The family member also stated Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate. | ||
| The family member also confirmed Robinson had a gray Dodge challenger. | ||
| Investigators identified an individual as the roommate of Robinson. | ||
| Investigators interviewed that roommate who stated that his roommate, referring to Robinson, made a joke on Discord. | ||
| Investigators asked if he would show them the messages on Discord. | ||
| He opened it and showed several messages to investigators and allowed investigators to take photos of the screen as each message was shown by Robinson's roommate. | ||
| These photos consisted of various messages, including content of messages between the phone contact name Tyler with an emoji icon and Robinson's roommate's device. | ||
| The content of these messages included messages affiliated with the contact Tyler stating a need to retrieve a rifle from a drop point, leaving the rifle in a bush, messages related to visually watching the area where a rifle was left, and a message referring to having left the rifle wrapped in a towel. | ||
| The messages also refer to engraving bullets and a mention of a scope and the rifle being unique. | ||
| Messages from the contact Tyler also mentioned that he had changed outfits. | ||
| I know there has been speculation as well as to the writing on those casings, those bullet casings, and I believe we have that as well. | ||
| And I will share that with you now. | ||
| So the area north of Campus Drive Road where the suspect crossed over, you saw some of that in the video that we released last night, consists of a grassy area with trees on the edge of the UVU campus. | ||
| Investigators discovered a bolt-action rifle wrapped in a dark colored towel. | ||
| The rifle was determined to be a Mauser Model 98306 caliber, a 30 odd six caliber bolt action rifle. | ||
| The rifle had a scope mounted on top of it. | ||
| Investigators noted inscriptions that had been engraved on casings found with the rifle. | ||
| Inscriptions on a fired casing read, Notices Bulges, capital OWO. | ||
| What's this question mark? | ||
| Inscriptions on the three unfired casings read, Hey Fascist exclamation point, catch exclamation point, up arrow symbol, right arrow and symbol, and three down arrow symbols. | ||
| A second unfired casing read, O Bella Chow, Bella Chow, Bella Chow, Chow Chow. | ||
| And a third unfired casing read, If you read this, you are gay, L M A O. | ||
| We are indebted to law enforcement across the state who's worked seamlessly together, local law enforcement, state law enforcement, and our federal partners with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. | ||
| We're grateful for everyone who worked together in such a short amount of time to find this person and to bring justice. | ||
| I want to thank the public who has been so engaged reviewing videos, helping us with sending in tips and helping us get to this point. | ||
| I want to thank the family members of Tyler Robinson who did the right thing in this case and were able to bring him into law enforcement as well. | ||
| I especially want to thank the family of Charlie Kirk, Erica, Charlie's parents, his children. | ||
| I want us to be thinking of them as we bring justice in this case. | ||
| They will be involved in that justice. | ||
| We will be working very closely with them as we move through this process as well. | ||
| This is a very sad day for, again, for our country, a terrible day for the state of Utah. | ||
| But I'm grateful that at this moment we have an opportunity to bring closure to this very dark chapter in our nation's history. | ||
| With that, I will now turn the microphone over to the director of the FBI, Kash Patel. | ||
| Thank you, Governor. | ||
| This is what happens when you let good cops be cops. | ||
| The FBI and our partners are proud to stand here today together to bring justice to the family of Charlie Kirk and honor his memory. | ||
| I want to express my deep gratitude to President Trump, the Vice President, and the entire White House who have been so incredibly supportive with both resources and just personally to the FBI as a team. | ||
| They had our backs the entire way, and I just want to express my gratitude for giving us the resources we need to operate in this space to bring this sort of justice at this sort of speed. | ||
| In 33 hours, we have made historic progress for Charlie. | ||
| Governor Cox, our partnership has been absolutely incredible these last few days. | ||
| Our partnership will endure. | ||
| Your state and local partners, your sheriffs, your DPS community has been unbelievably impressive in the hardest of times. | ||
| And a case like this cannot be solved, cannot be brought without partnering with your state and local authorities. | ||
| The FBI has a certain role to play, and we will play that role, and we will lead out for the federal government. | ||
| But, Governor Cox, we are so grateful for your state partnership that led out on this investigation. | ||
| A little bit of the timeline: Charlie was shot at 12:23 p.m. on Wednesday. | ||
| The first FBI agents arrived on scene in 16 minutes with chiefs of police at 12:39 and secured the scene. | ||
| The FBI immediately launched fixed-wing assets. | ||
| We utilize these assets to transport personnel, specialty technicians, hostage rescue teams. | ||
| We also utilize these assets to go back and forth from the East Coast and here in Utah to transport forensic evidence and other evidence that will be analyzed and is being analyzed at our FBI laboratories in Quantico and other laboratories, including the ATF. | ||
| At my direction, the FBI released the first set of FBI photos of the suspect at 10 a.m. local time on 9-11. | ||
| Then, shortly thereafter, the FBI reward of $100,000 was released at 10:45 a.m. local. | ||
| Myself and Deputy Director Bongino arrived on the scene at approximately 5:30 p.m. on 9-11. | ||
| The governor led a press conference last night at approximately 8 p.m., where at my direction, the FBI released a never-before-seen video of the suspect. | ||
| We also released new images to the public of the suspect. | ||
| And just last night, the suspect was taken into custody at 10 p.m. local time. | ||
| In less than 36 hours, 33 to be precise, thanks to the full weight of the federal government and leading out with the partners here in the state of Utah and Governor Cox, the suspect was apprehended in a historic time period. | ||
| And I want to highlight what Governor Cox said: This would not have been possible without you, the media, and you, the public. | ||
| That's why we went so public, so fast, and we're so transparent. | ||
| And we're committed to that transparency. | ||
| The crime scene, just a little bit there. | ||
| It is a large crime scene. | ||
| State and local authorities, along with federal authorities, processed that crime scene quickly. | ||
| And I even had the ability to walk through that crime scene and walk through the steps the suspect took to learn more about what was needed and what resources we needed to bring to create a full picture for the FBI and leadership back in Washington. | ||
| Furthermore, thankfully to state and local partners, forensic evidence has been seized and continues to be garnered. | ||
| Forensic evidence has already been evaluated at FBI laboratories in Quantico and state local authorities here. | ||
| We will continue to process evidence as we see it, as we collect it, and we will continue to deliver to Governor Cox and his team. | ||
| Last night, we had a total of approximately 7,000 interviews, excuse me, 7,000 leads. | ||
| As of this morning, thanks to your great work, we have over 11,000 leads that were called in to the FBI, and we are running out every single lead that we can. | ||
| Every one of those leads will be run out. | ||
| The arrest is a testament to the dedication of good law enforcement being great and partnerships in law enforcement, which I've tried to highlight as my tenure at the director of the FBI. | ||
| There is no better relationship for law enforcement than the FBI to partner with state and local authorities, and you've seen it here in these last few days. | ||
| The FBI Salt Lake Field Office, along with our offices in LA, Phoenix, Denver, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, our headquarters component in Quantico, all participate in the FBI. | ||
| I want to express my deep gratitude to the employees of the FBI, the men and women, the evidence response team tacticians, the special operators, the agents, the support staff. | ||
| You have done monumental work in historic time when the public, who had a right to demand such an expeditious solving of an investigation, the FBI answered that call diligently, critically important to our nation, and we delivered. | ||
| I'm proud to be their leader, and I'm proud to be the director of the FBI. | ||
| This is a very much an ongoing investigation, as the governor said, and we will continue to work with state and local authorities to develop the investigation to provide them the evidence they need for their ongoing prosecutions. | ||
| And we will be here to answer every call they absolutely have as long as it takes for as long as we need to find and apprehend whatever suspects were involved in this crime. | ||
| Lastly, to my friend Charlie Kirk, rest now, brother. | ||
| We have the watch, and I'll see you in Valhalla. | ||
| Thank you, and good morning. | ||
| I would just like to take a few minutes as the sheriff to express my gratitude for everybody who has played a part in this investigation. | ||
| As you know, it's been a vast, complicated, and a very, very fast-paced investigation. | ||
| You're looking at people standing up here who are running on, if they got an hour's sleep in the last couple of days, they're probably lucky. | ||
| It has been very taxing. | ||
| It has been so impressive speaking on behalf of the local law enforcement to see the cooperation that we have seen in this type of case. | ||
| Across the state, sheriffs, chiefs, our state partners have stepped up and have come to the call on anything that we needed. | ||
| Our county chiefs have been phenomenal. | ||
| Our Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray, who's standing up here with us, has been phenomenal in leading us through this investigation. | ||
| I would like to thank the federal government for their resources, our local team here, our FBI team, has been extraordinary in helping us work through this and bring this person to justice. | ||
| Most of all, I would like to thank the public, and specifically, I would like to thank the public who turned to prayers and who turned to positiveness for us. | ||
| I would like to thank them on behalf of the law enforcement community because we needed those prayers. | ||
| That's what we needed to get through this. | ||
| We needed your support and you gave it to us. | ||
| We needed your patience and you gave it to us. | ||
| And I would like to thank you for the Kirk family because that's what they need: your support and your prayers, and that will get us through all of this. | ||
| So, thank you, everybody, for everybody that has stepped up. | ||
| We've had such a phenomenal response to this. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I also want to give a special thanks to the Attorney General and the Department of Justice. | ||
| Their unwavering support and their commitment to justice is shown true here. | ||
| And without A.G. Bondi and Deputy Attorney Attorney Todd Blanche and the resources they brought to bear, we would not have been able to complete our mission. | ||
| I just want to say special thanks. | ||
| It's an honor to be a part of the Department of Justice. | ||
| Thank you again to our incredible law enforcement team who has worked so hard. | ||
| Sheriff, I got a solid 90 minutes last night, so I'm probably the most well-rested person up here. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, I get the microphone, so I hope you'll permit me a moment just to share a few more thoughts about where we are and how we got here and maybe a little bit of where we go from here. | ||
| I don't want to get too preachy, but I think it's important that we, with eyes wide open, understand what's happening in our country today. | ||
| I've heard people say, well, why are we so invested in this? | ||
| There's violence happening all across our country, and violence is tragic everywhere. | ||
| And every life taken is a child of God who deserves our love and respect and dignity. | ||
| This is certainly about the tragic death assassination, political assassination of Charlie Kirk. | ||
| But it is also much bigger than an attack on an individual. | ||
| It is an attack on all of us. | ||
| It is an attack on the American experiment. | ||
| It is an attack on our ideals. | ||
| This cuts to the very foundation of who we are, of who we have been, and who we could be in better times. | ||
| Political violence is different than any other type of violence for lots of different reasons. | ||
| One, because in the very act that Charlie championed of expression, that freedom of expression that is enshrined in our founding documents, in having his life taken in that very act, makes it more difficult for people to feel like they can share their ideas, that they can speak freely. | ||
| We will never be able to solve all the other problems, including the violence problems that people are worried about, if we can't have a clash of ideas safely and securely, even especially, especially those ideas with which you disagree. | ||
| That's why this matters so much. | ||
| Over the last 48 hours, I have been as angry as I have ever been, as sad as I have ever been. | ||
| And it was as anger pushed me to the brink, it was actually Charlie's words that pulled me back. | ||
| I'd like to share some of those, and specifically right now, if I could, I need to talk to the young people in our state, in my state, and all across the country. | ||
| As President Trump reminded me, he said, you know who really loved Charlie? | ||
| The youths. | ||
| He's right. | ||
| Young people love Charlie and young people hated Charlie. | ||
| And Charlie went into those places anyway. | ||
| And these are the words that have helped me. | ||
| Charlie said, when people stop talking, that's when you get violence. | ||
| He said, the weak can never forgive. | ||
| Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. | ||
| The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. | ||
| Welcome without judgment, love without condition, forgive without limit. | ||
| He said, always forgive your enemies. | ||
| Nothing annoys them so much. | ||
| A few months ago, I referenced this last night, Charlie posted to social media: when things are moving very fast and people are losing their minds, it's important to stay grounded. | ||
| Turn off your phone, read scripture, spend time with friends, and remember, internet fury is not real life. | ||
| It's going to be okay. | ||
| He again said, when you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to commit violence. | ||
| He said, What we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have a reasonable agreement, being able to have reasonable agreement where violence is not an option. | ||
| Now, again, to my young friends out there, you are inheriting a country where politics feels like rage. | ||
| It feels like rage is the only option. | ||
| But through those words, we have a reminder that we can choose a different path. | ||
| Your generation has an opportunity to build a culture that is very different than what we are suffering through right now. | ||
| Not by pretending differences don't matter, but by embracing our differences and having those hard conversations. | ||
| I think we need more moral clarity right now. | ||
| I hear all the time that words are violence. | ||
| Words are not violence. | ||
| Violence is violence. | ||
| And there is one person responsible for what happened here. | ||
| And that person is now in custody and will be charged soon and will be held accountable. | ||
| And yet, all of us have an opportunity right now to do something different. | ||
| I want to thank my fellow Utah's. | ||
| You know, this bad stuff happens. | ||
| And for 33 hours, I was praying that if this had to happen here, that it wouldn't be one of us. | ||
| That somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country. | ||
| Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I had hoped for, just because I thought it would make it easier on us if we could just say, hey, we don't do that here. | ||
| And indeed, Utah is a special place. | ||
| We lead the nation in charitable giving. | ||
| We lead the nation in service every year. | ||
| But it did happen here. | ||
| And it was one of us. | ||
| But I want you to look at how Utah's reacted the last two nights. | ||
| There was no rioting. | ||
| There was no looting. | ||
| There were no cars set on fire. | ||
| There was no violence. | ||
| There were vigils and prayers and people coming together to share the humanity. | ||
| And that, ladies and gentlemen, I believe is the answer to this. | ||
| We can return violence with violence. | ||
| We can return hate with hate. | ||
| And that's the problem with political violence: it metastasizes because we can always point the finger at the other side. | ||
| And at some point, we have to find an off-ramp or it's going to get much, much worse. | ||
| But see, these are choices that we can make. | ||
| History will dictate if this is a turning point for our country. | ||
| But every single one of us gets to choose right now if this is a turning point for us. | ||
| We get to make decisions. | ||
| We have our agency. | ||
| And I desperately call on every American, Republican, Democrat, liberal, progressive, conservative, MAGA, all of us to please, please, please follow what Charlie taught me. | ||
| I'll just conclude with words I share often from a friend, an author you've all live in, who was asked if he was optimistic about our country. | ||
| And he said, I'm not optimistic. | ||
| He said, I hate optimism. | ||
| God, that sounds bad. | ||
| But he said, optimism is a vice. | ||
| It's this idea that good things are just going to happen. | ||
| He said, in the history of the world, good things have never just happened. | ||
| He says, I'm not optimistic, but I am hopeful. | ||
| And hope is the virtue that sits between the vices of optimism and pessimism. | ||
| Hope is the idea that good things are going to happen because we can make them so. | ||
| I still believe in our country. | ||
| And I know Charlie Kirk believed in our country. | ||
| I still believe that there is more good among us than evil. | ||
| And I still believe that we can change the course of history. | ||
| I'm hopeful because Americans can make it so. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we're happy to answer any questions you might have. | ||
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Can you speak to whether the suspect is speaking with authorities and his leader, Tyler Robinson, has turned himself in? | |
| I cannot speak to that right now. | ||
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How do you interpret the clearance on the case that you have? | |
| Well, I will leave that up to you to interpret what those engravings mean. | ||
| I think the clearest one that says catch fascist, there's not, and by the way, that's like catch like a ball, catch this. | ||
| I think that that speaks for itself. | ||
| There's nothing more that we can share at this time. | ||
| We do not at this time have any information that would lead to any additional arrests. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| but the investigation is ongoing. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So right now, Mr. Robinson has been booked into the Utah County Jail. | ||
| You heard the president this morning report that he was taken into custody, that his family and a friend helped to deliver him into custody of law enforcement in Washington County. | ||
| For those of you that don't know where Washington County is, it is the southernmost southwesternmost part of the state of Utah. | ||
| It's about a three and a half to four hour drive from here where we are right now. | ||
| And that's where he lived and where they turned him in. | ||
| Please go here. | ||
| I can't share any more than what I've already shared, yeah. | ||
| So how we obtained the gun, the gun was found here. | ||
| So I don't have much more details on that. | ||
| We do know that he drove, we had his car here on campus, and then we had his car going going south back to the St. George. | ||
| It's actually the city of Washington in Washington County. | ||
| I'm sorry? | ||
| We don't have any information that would lead us to believe that. | ||
| Yes, in fact, it's already it was just released. | ||
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Yes. | |
| I can't answer that right now. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Do you feel that this is a watershed in American history? | ||
| I absolutely believe that this is a watershed in American history. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| The question is what kind of watershed? | ||
| And that chapter remains to be written. | ||
| Is this the end of a dark chapter in our history or the beginning of a darker chapter in our history? | ||
| Look, I mean, if you look at true political assassinations in this country of someone of this stature, this feels a lot like the late 60s. | ||
| And having one so gruesomely displayed on camera in all of our hands and in all of our pockets, we are not wired as human beings biologically, historically. | ||
| We have not evolved in a way that we are capable of processing those types of violent imagery. | ||
| And by the way, we've seen another one with a gruesome stabbing very recently that went viral. | ||
| This is not good for us. | ||
| It is not good to consume. | ||
| Social media is a cancer on our society right now. | ||
| And I would encourage, again, I would encourage people to log off, turn off, touch grass, hug a family member, go out and do good in your community. | ||
| That is happening and it's happening organically right now. | ||
| Had a friend in a small city in Utah who said, we're getting together. | ||
| The Republicans and Democrats in my little town are getting together to have a discussion tonight, last night, just to find a way to find their better angels. | ||
| So, yes, this could be. | ||
| I mean, again, you have to go back to JFK to have seen a video live of something like this happening. | ||
| I wasn't born until 1975, but I know that things were really dark in the late 60s. | ||
| Sorry to some of you. | ||
| I know some of you were there. | ||
| But this is our moment. | ||
| Do we escalate or do we find an off-ramp? | ||
| And again, it's a choice. | ||
| It's a choice. | ||
| And every one of us gets to make that choice. | ||
| Two more questions. | ||
| Two more questions right here. | ||
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Could we clarify that the release of those enhanced images at 8 p.m. in the timeline that Director Patel gave us led to the arrest of 10 p.m.? | |
| Is there a direct connection between those two events? | ||
| I cannot comment if there is a direct connection or not, but all I can say is that through some process, the family came to know that this had happened. | ||
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One more thing, Governor. | |
| Could you clarify the clothing issue you mentioned where we changing handfits? | ||
| Correct. | ||
| Yes, yes. | ||
| So when he's first spotted on campus, he has different clothing on, and then he changes clothing on the roof and then changed back into that clothing at some point so that when he was apprehended, when he was arrested, the clothing matched the clothing he had on before the shooting here at UBU. | ||
| Last question here. | ||
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Yes. Yeah. | |
| So I don't have any information on the mental illness part. | ||
| He was not a student here at UVU. | ||
| He was living and had lived for a long time with his family in Washington County, in the southernmost part of our state. | ||
| Thank you, everyone, for your great work in getting this information out. | ||
| I would just say, process-wise, this may be important. | ||
| I know many of you aren't familiar with the process in Utah. | ||
| I think it's important that you understand that. | ||
| Basically, we have three days for charging documents to be filed. | ||
| S CI will be filed. | ||
| We'll have more information then, more detailed information as those charging documents are filed in preparation for a preliminary hearing. | ||
| So, three days. | ||
| So, we would anticipate then that early next week, those charging documents will be filed. | ||
| We will obviously be working, the county attorney will be working very closely with Mr. Kirk's family as those documents and decisions are prepared and made. | ||
| Thanks, everyone. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, the full live press conference that confirmed our absolute worst fears about a silent killer who was able to evade law enforcement for nearly two days before having to be turned in by his own family and minister after his own father, who is a sheriff, locked him down. | ||
| Dan Bongino was also there in the audience, but did not speak. | ||
| Catch Patel spoke. | ||
| Catch Patel, the director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, the deputy director of the FBI. | ||
| That was the governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, who spoke the majority of time and gave us the majority of information. | ||
| Kash Patel, quick top line, talked through their engagement with local law enforcement and how they were teaming up in order to catch right here the mugshot. | ||
| Tyler Robinson. | ||
| Here's Tyler Robinson's mugshot, quite different from the baby-faced photos of the mother's Facebook account that we put up earlier in the show. | ||
| Sunken eyes, sunken face, more mature-looking, receding hairline. | ||
| We have another mugshot as well of Tyler Robinson. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| You can see here, relatively tall individual and mature, 22 years old. | ||
| Utah Governor Spencer Cox said the authorities have captured the suspect. | ||
| He started by saying we got him. | ||
| On the evening of September 11th, a family member of Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend who contacted the Washington County Sheriff's Office with information that Robinson had confessed to them and/or implied that he had committed the incident. | ||
| Investigators interviewed family members of Robinson who stated that Robinson had become more political in recent years. | ||
| We now have a motive. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, I also am being told by my team that we are preparing to have Eric Trump, President Trump's son, Eric Trump, join the program. | ||
| Eric Trump joining the program. | ||
| Again, we are a moving, you know, it's obviously a moving breaking news environment. | ||
| And of course, we would like to have Eric Trump hop on to eulogize Charlie. | ||
| Not enough of that is happening. | ||
| But today, given all of the new information that we just learned, I want to process it and get through it. | ||
| We now know that this individual, even though he has a normie appearance on social media, had become a radicalized and hardened leftist who hated Charlie Kirk, who was using Discord in order. | ||
| This is a Discord that is like a messaging app where you can send encrypted messages. | ||
| I believe that the shooter, also in Butler, Pennsylvania, had a Discord. | ||
| Please check that. | ||
| One of the producers. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| He had encrypted messaging apps, and I believe Discord was one of them, usually used for gamers. | ||
| Now, we had photos. | ||
| We had photos of him, Tyler Robinson, the assassin, the murderer, Dressing up in part as Donald Trump for Halloween. | ||
| So, clearly, what happened here, and I know there's some speculation in this, but really not. | ||
| What happened here was that this rabid killer was radicalized on a college campus. | ||
| Was radicalized either through online communities or radicalized through the school itself in the left-wing culture, steeped in every college, but also obviously in Utah as well. | ||
| And then became somebody who viscerally hated Charlie Kirk. | ||
| Investigators have interviewed family members of Robinson who stated that Robinson had become more political in recent years. | ||
| The family member referenced a recent incident where Robinson, the killer, came to a dinner prior to the murder of Charlie Kirk. | ||
| And in that conversation with another family member, Robinson mentioned Charlie Kirk was coming to the university in Utah, and they talked about why they didn't like him and to viewpoints he had. | ||
| So that Charlie Kirk was spreading hate. | ||
| I think this is probably the most important clip from what we learned here: Charlie Kirk spreading hate, that the Discord server was used to potentially organize the pickup or drop-off of the firearm. | ||
| Yes, also Thomas Matthew Crooks used a Discord server as well upon shooting President Trump. | ||
| In Butler, Pennsylvania, there are some eerie similarities. | ||
| It's not one-to-one. | ||
| There are eerie similarities. | ||
| But then, most likely, the biggest bombshell is one that we already knew based on prior reporting, that there was political iconography carved into the bullet casings on the firearm. | ||
| Now, the initial reports were that they were transgender ideology. | ||
| The reality, according to the governor of Utah, was that it was anti-fascist, meaning Antifa. | ||
| So, a hey, fascist catch. | ||
| Antifa, of course, is a left-wing terrorist group that terrorizes and is funded by left-wing dark money groups. | ||
| All of them should be charged in a massive RICO case. | ||
| Anybody who's ever given a dollar to Antifa or any dollars that have ever ended up in an Antifa coffer, they should be also charged here. | ||
| Antifa should be rounded up as a terrorist organization, a domestic terrorist organization. | ||
| They have proven this time and time again: an open and complete insurrection against our nation, law, and rule of order. | ||
| And now they have their messaging written, confirmed by the governor on a bullet, a bullet that struck and killed Charlie Kirk. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, I want to play you that moment here. | ||
| And again, we will be going to Eric Trump very soon. | ||
| Eric Trump, ladies and gentlemen, very soon, live on our programming. | ||
| Here is the governor of Utah confirming that this was a political assassination. | ||
| This isn't somebody losing their mind. | ||
| This was a targeted political assassination. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We got him. | ||
| On the evening of September 11th, a family member of Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend who contacted the Washington County Sheriff's Office with information that Robinson had confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident. | ||
| This information was relayed to the Utah County Sheriff's Office and scene investigators at Utah Valley University. | ||
| This information was also conveyed to the FBI. | ||
| Investigators reviewed additional video footage from UVU surveillance and identified Robinson arriving on UVU campus in a grade Dodge Challenger at approximately 8.29 a.m. on September 10th, in which he is observed on video in a plain maroon t-shirt, light-colored shorts, a black hat with a white logo, and light-colored shoes. | ||
| When encountered in person by investigators in Washington County on September 12th in the early morning hours, Robinson was observed in consistent clothing with those surveillance images. | ||
| Investigators interviewed a family member of Robinson who stated that Robinson had become more political in recent years. | ||
| The family member referenced a recent incident in which Robinson came to dinner prior to September 10th. | ||
| And in the conversation with another family member, Robinson mentioned Charlie Kirk who was coming to UVU. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| They talked about why they didn't like him and the viewpoints that he had. | ||
| The family member also stated Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate. | ||
| Okay, how did that happen? | ||
| Forgive me, I'm going to pause this for a moment because this is critical information that we didn't know. | ||
| We actually, because of leaks and because of articles in Wall Street Journal and also some of the reporting online, we knew that there was political iconography carved and written into the bullets. | ||
| We knew that it was anti-fascist messaging that was carved into the bullets that were targeting Charlie Kirk and that took his life in a political assassination murder. | ||
| What we do not have, did not have was any motive or insight into who the individual was. | ||
| Late into the small hours of the evening last night, all we had was very blurry images from security cameras. | ||
| And so now this is the first moment that we are seeing actual motive that this shooter, Tyler Robinson, hated Charlie Kirk, thought he was spreading hate, described him up they disliked him, described Charlie Kirk's next steps and where he was going to go. | ||
| Premeditation. | ||
| So this is the first insight into, yes, this is a hate crime. | ||
| This is a targeted hate crime. | ||
| Something happened to Tyler Robinson that took him from, and I don't know, the voter registration of his parents, but his parents are a sheriff's, 27-year sheriff's deputy in Utah. | ||
| Is that really like left-wing extreme? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Mother does work for disabled care, so I'm not sure. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| State funding, a lot of those places get steeped in left-wing ideology. | ||
| But my assumption is that upon acceptance, and we have his video, his acceptance video here. | ||
| This is the only video that we have of him talking on camera. | ||
| My assumption is that he went to college. | ||
| That he went to college and started like hearing and following on TikTok and hearing other left-wing students talk about how much they hate Charlie Kirk. | ||
| And that he got radicalized either by professors or by college groups. | ||
| Here he is receiving a scholarship to go to college. | ||
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You have been to school to the resident presidential scholarship from Utah State University. | |
| The value of this scholarship is approximately $32,000. | ||
| This scholarship is available for four years or eight semesters. | ||
| And then there's photos of him out front of an engineering school. | ||
| Don't know if he's an engineering student. | ||
| But he went to a left-wing university, and you have to then assume that he goes from wearing a Donald Trump Halloween costume to then being radicalized through that pipeline quickly and swiftly and then killing our friend. | ||
| There is no other explanation. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, the governor of Utah, continuing here, and then we'll go to Eric Trump. | ||
| I just want to get all of like, this is very important. | ||
| This has the shell casings. | ||
| This has the bullet case in it. | ||
| Family member also confirmed Robinson had a gray Dodge challenger. | ||
| Investigators identified an individual as the roommate of Robinson. | ||
| Investigators interviewed that roommate who stated that his roommate, referring to Robinson, made a joke on Discord. | ||
| Investigators asked if he would show them the messages on Discord. | ||
| He opened it and showed several messages to investigators and allowed investigators to take photos of the screen as each message was shown by Robinson's roommate. | ||
| These photos consisted of various messages, including content of messages between the phone contact name Tyler with an emoji icon and Robinson's roommate's device. | ||
| The content of these messages included messages affiliated with the contact Tyler stating a need to retrieve a rifle from a drop point, leaving the rifle in a bush, messages related to visually watching the area where a rifle was left, and a message referring to having left the rifle wrapped in a towel. | ||
| The messages also refer to engraving bullets and a mention of a scope and the rifle being unique. | ||
| Messages from the contact Tyler also mentioned that he had changed outfits. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, pop over my screen, please. | ||
| We now know that the bullet, again, these are the mugshots of Tyler Robinson, not the baby-faced, braced-faced photos we showed you from Facebook, but the eyes, the dead eyes of a hardened killer who has clearly been radicalized on his college campus or in an online community, a receding hairline, and someone who will most likely be receiving the death penalty for his hate crime, political assassination, exactly what we said it was going to be. | ||
| Exactly what we said it was going to be. | ||
| He was also working with others on Discord to get a drop point set up. | ||
| And he engaged in political violence. | ||
| He hated Charlie Kirk and he carved political messages into the firearm. | ||
| Carved political messages into the firearm. | ||
| The engravings on the bullet of Charlie Kirk's assassin have been revealed. | ||
| Hey, fascist catch. | ||
| This is anti-fascist Antifa. | ||
| Antifa is an organized group. | ||
| This is anti-fascist messaging. | ||
| You have to go through all of his social media. | ||
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| Then, up arrows, symbols, all these symbols are gamer symbols. | ||
| I want to thank one of our subscribers for noting that these gamer symbols are a reference to a specific video game. | ||
| Yep, it's a finishing move. | ||
| In Helldivers 2, we saw his gamer setup. | ||
| This is a gamer. | ||
| This is a gamer move. | ||
| This is on the bullet casing and a reference to a 500-kiloton bomb that you can drop on enemies in the Helldivers 2 game. | ||
| So that's what that means. | ||
| The second one read: Oh, Bella, Chow, Bella, Chow, Bella, Chow, Chow, Chow. | ||
| So goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. | ||
| Goodbye, right? | ||
| In Italian. | ||
| You're gay. | ||
| L-N-A-O. | ||
| So that's what's going on here, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Somebody that knew Charlie Kirk, like a brother, joins our show live now. | ||
| A man who, I mean, it's been said that Charlie Kirk is like the fourth Trump boy. | ||
| Somebody who I've witnessed myself, the president, call Charlie Kirk. | ||
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| Joining us now, President Trump's son, Eric Trump, live. | ||
| Eric, thank you so much for being on the program. | ||
| I know that we've learned so much in the last few hours about this. | ||
| I want to get to that, but something that nobody is doing and that isn't done enough is eulogizing Charlie as somebody who traveled the country with him, as somebody who knows him like a brother. | ||
| I want to just give you the floor and give you an opportunity to speak to everyone about who Charlie was and what message his life brought to the world. | ||
| To rewind 10 years, Benny, he comes into Trump Tower. | ||
| I'll never forget this. | ||
| We're sitting in a conference room on the 25th floor of Trump Tower, and he's this, I don't know, a 21-year-old kid. | ||
| And he comes up to me and he goes, this is what I want to do on college campus. | ||
| This is how I want to be involved in the campaign. | ||
| And I go, you know, these are really incredible, you know, aspirations and lofty goals, but you really think you can create a chapter on every college campus and fully change the narrative. | ||
| And he goes, yeah, I can. | ||
| I absolutely can. | ||
| And he just got going. | ||
| He had a couple of chapters, but the chapters are small. | ||
| And there was energy. | ||
| He had a lot of energy behind it. | ||
| But he literally spelled out exactly what Turning Point USA is right now. | ||
| He spelled out the exact movement that he created, which you best saw five seconds before he was assassinated by this jerk, right? | ||
| When you saw those kids out there and they're waving their hats and they're pumping their fists in the air and they're so excited to see him and the energy is contagious and they're all wearing 47 hats and they're throwing hats to the crowd and they're having a great time. | ||
| I mean, this was a rally on a college campus and that is what he told me he wanted to create 10 years ago. | ||
| And listen, you hear a lot of nonsense, especially in the business world from people. | ||
| Oh, this is what I'm going to do. | ||
| This is what I'm going to build. | ||
| And 99% of the time it's bravado and BS. | ||
| You know, the people can't execute. | ||
| They can't build. | ||
| You know, they lose their will. | ||
| They lose their passion. | ||
| Charlie not only built, but exceeded that goal. | ||
| And I love him. | ||
| Listen, you know, when I saw Kash Patel speak, and Cash is a dear friend of mine. | ||
| I mean, a dear friend of mine. | ||
| When I saw Cash, and by the way, so is Dan Bongino. | ||
| When I saw him speak a couple minutes ago, it was like, if you want to ever talk about full circle in life, almost brought tears to my eyes. | ||
| The amount of stages that you, me, Cash, and Charlie have been on. | ||
| And by the way, Dan Bongino, right? | ||
| Like, you know, over the course of our life. | ||
| So, so here's a dear friend of ours who was one of the biggest impetus in helping my father win the White House and just standing by our side relentlessly. | ||
| If we were in a courthouse, if we were getting attacked by an AG, Charlie was there and he was fighting and he was vocal. | ||
| And so he lost his life in support of a movement that my father started, but obviously his beliefs and what he cared about, right? | ||
| God, our constitution, America, red, white, and blue. | ||
| So I'm seeing a friend here that I've been on stage with a thousand times. | ||
| I'm seeing another dear friend that's been on the same stage as Charlie and I and you up there as FBI director who's trying to hold it together as he's piecing together the timeline of how he found his buddy's killer. | ||
| You know, and now Cash runs the FBI. | ||
| And then you see Bongino, who is, again, was a friend of Charlie's and a friend of mine and a friend of yours. | ||
| And you want to just talk about this weird small world. | ||
| Like you never thought that this is how, at least I never thought, and it didn't hit me until two seconds ago that this is how the United States worked. | ||
| Normally you had some freaking bureaucrat who wore some suit, who carried some freaking revolver, who was a political, you know, who didn't give a crap about the other, you know, the person at the end of that rifle barrel. | ||
| And yet you see all these worlds of heart and soul collide where it's just, we're all fighting for the same thing. | ||
| We're fighting for country. | ||
| We're fighting for what Charlie believed in. | ||
| We're fighting for friendship. | ||
| It's so damn real. | ||
| It's so damn raw. | ||
| It's so uniquely personal to all of us based on how well you and I and all of us know these characters and the fight that we've been in this entire time. | ||
| And man, it's crazy. | ||
| I mean, you couldn't write this in a book. | ||
| You really couldn't. | ||
| I know you have some breaking news. | ||
| And so I want to get to that. | ||
| You do have a new book out. | ||
| And my producers are telling me that you want to announce something about your new book. | ||
| And you've been on a book tour and you want to take this moment to break news about something that you've decided about your book that details, I'm sure Charlie's in it, that details your relationship with your father in the last few years in your front seat to this American moment. | ||
| Please, Eric, the floor is yours. | ||
| So, Betty, I started working on this three years ago. | ||
| I started working on it before Butler. | ||
| It was after they tried to impeach my father twice, the Russia hoax that I was at the center of because I was the one that was getting the call from the old FBI saying, hey, I hear you have secret servers in the basement of Trump Tower, right? | ||
| Then they tried to gag my father. | ||
| They got rid of his freedom of speech. | ||
| They took him off of Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. | ||
| They took him off the ballot of Maine and Colorado. | ||
| They went after Supreme Court justices. | ||
| They raided our home. | ||
| They raided Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| I became the most subpoenaed person in American history. | ||
| I got 112 subpoenas in a short period of time. | ||
| They tried to lock my father up. | ||
| They tried to imprison all of us. | ||
| They tried to bankrupt our family. | ||
| And I started working on this book called Under Siege, right? | ||
| And I named the book before Butler, Pennsylvania, right? | ||
| It's what they wanted to do. | ||
| They wanted to kill us in any way possible. | ||
| They wanted to kill my father. | ||
| They wanted to eliminate our family. | ||
| They wanted to strip his voice. | ||
| They wanted to bankrupt us, right? | ||
| And they would do anything to get to that goal. | ||
| They wanted to make sure the Make America Great Again movement was dead and it was quashed and its leader was gone and the children of the leader were imprisoned and hated each other and had no voice and had no money. | ||
| And we were extinguished for forever. | ||
| And that's how I came up with Under Siege. | ||
| And then something happened. | ||
| And it's called Butler, Pennsylvania, where they tried to extinguish my father's life on that stage. | ||
| And by the grace of God, they didn't succeed. | ||
| And then two months later, they tried to kill him again at a golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, a course I run every single day. | ||
| And every single day, the title Under Siege became more fitting as to what the radical left lunatics were trying to do to our family, what the movement that we created. | ||
| And it's a movement of good. | ||
| It's exactly what Charlie epitomized. | ||
| And I launched it on literally Wednesday of this week. | ||
| I announced this book. | ||
| And you better believe New York Times and everybody is going to do everything they can to quash what I'm trying to do because it is so raw and so damn powerful. | ||
| And I do not hold back and I give every inside story about the corruption. | ||
| And then two days later, and literally two days later after I announce this book, you know, we're all watching and we see exactly what happened to Charlie. | ||
| That is us being under siege, Benny. | ||
| That is our party. | ||
| That is our movement. | ||
| That is God being under siege. | ||
| That's our constitution being under siege. | ||
| That's our American flag being under siege. | ||
| That's the family unit in this country being under siege. | ||
| That's our democracy being under siege. | ||
| Everything that we love, everything that we fought for, it's every one of those college kids that's indoctrinated. | ||
| It's all of them being under siege. | ||
| It's a revisionist history that they teach in our schools. | ||
| It's that being under siege. | ||
| And honestly, if the book came out a day later, I would have included the chapter on Charlie because there is no better example of all of us being under siege, exactly what I write about so granularly in this book than what just happened to our dear friend. | ||
| And so, you know, St. Jude has always been kind of the biggest charity and calling in my life. | ||
| I fought for kids with pediatric cancer my entire life. | ||
| They tried to kill me because of it. | ||
| I want to take a nice part of the proceeds of this book, and I want to invest that in Turning Point because here's what you and I and all the other people can never allow happen. | ||
| We cannot allow his mission to ever die. | ||
| It won't. | ||
| We will never allow them to take us off the stage because that's exactly what they want. | ||
| They want us to be Joe Biden. | ||
| They want us to hide in the basement, right? | ||
| I've been on that stage. | ||
| You've been on that stage. | ||
| You're on that stage every day. | ||
| I'm on that stage every day. | ||
| Charlie was on that stage every day. | ||
| My father's out there every day. | ||
| So is Don and so many incredible people in this movement. | ||
| They don't want us to stand on that stage. | ||
| And that's why they're shooting rifle rounds at us from rooftops. | ||
| The same time as if we don't stand on that stage, we don't have a damn chance. | ||
| If we didn't stand on that stage, Benny, you know, Hillary would have steamrolled us. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because she had $1.5 billion in funds and we had freaking nothing. | ||
| We were self-funding a campaign out of our back pocket. | ||
| Us standing on that stage was the only reason my father won in 2016. | ||
| You know, us having an impassioned voice and heart and fighting as a family unit was the only reason we won. | ||
| And that's why they're taking pop shots at everybody because they want to see us disappear. | ||
| The reality is they're not going to make us disappear. | ||
| The reason they're not going to make us disappear is this kind of stuff only further solidifies in concretes and, you know, and epoxies this movement. | ||
| You know, it solidifies the movement because everybody realizes that we're on the side of love and God and righteousness. | ||
| And these lunatics on the radical left are on the side of absolute anarchy, hatred, and destruction of our nation. | ||
| And so I want to take a nice set of proceeds from this book of all the sales, and it's going to do tremendously well. | ||
| It's already right at the top in two days of Amazon. | ||
| And I want to donate it back in honor of our friend back to Turning Point. | ||
| And literally, I came up with this idea as I was walking to the studio right now, and I texted it to you. | ||
| And he deserves it, man. | ||
| That guy, you can't replace him. | ||
| You just can't replace Charlie. | ||
| And I know I'm being long-winded right now, but somebody asked me the other day, Benny, you know, who replaces Charlie? | ||
| And I shook my head. | ||
| It's like, at first, he was an unbelievable character, right? | ||
| But there's certain characters out there. | ||
| But then he had the wisdom, the smarts. | ||
| But then he had the following. | ||
| He had the gravitas. | ||
| You can't create gravitas. | ||
| You either have it or you don't, right? | ||
| But yet he loved politics and the fight so much that it was kind of his hobby as well, right? | ||
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| I mean, the guy works seven days a week. | ||
| Plus, you have to be able to connect with the youth. | ||
| Plus, you have to be able to run a massive organization. | ||
| Plus, you have to be able to fundraise. | ||
| It's like an impossible combination, right? | ||
| If you're a headhunter, like it's a unicorn combination that really only Charlie had. | ||
| I don't care where in the world I was. | ||
| I could be on a ranch in Texas or I could be building a skyscraper in Chicago. | ||
| And I saw Charlie. | ||
| It was like the guy was everywhere. | ||
| It was like Mr. Deeds. | ||
| He was just that guy wore through shoes because he worked so damn hard fighting for what we all believe in. | ||
| And that's why we have to honor him. | ||
| And so Under Siege, my story that I put my heart and soul into over the last two years just came out. | ||
| And I want to donate a really nice part of this book in Charlie's memory to Turning Point. | ||
| And he epitomizes everything that I write about right here. | ||
| What a poignant and wonderful way to remember his legacy again, Turning Point USA. | ||
| Link in the description. | ||
| Now is the time to sign up and cement Charlie's legacy is what Charlie would want us to do is to continue his work. | ||
| He's laid the foundation. | ||
| He's built the single most valuable youth activism group in the world. | ||
| There is no comparison in any nation anywhere. | ||
| And now we pick up the mantle. | ||
| Now we carry forward this that Charlie has so nobly advanced to the point of giving his life as an American martyr, a Christian martyr, dying, doing what he loved, spreading light into the darkness. | ||
| Eric has appeared with Charlie so many different times. | ||
| And now we've seen in this press conference, Eric, what struck Charlie down. | ||
| It was left-wing radical, Antifa political activism. | ||
| The shooter described how Charlie Kirk was spreading hate and how Charlie Kirk was too divisive to be on the campus and then inscribed, hey, fascist, catch. | ||
| Now, the term fascist, of course, commonly used to describe you, your family, your father, probably appears in your book many times. | ||
| Now that we have this confirmed, Eric, I want to get your reaction to the political assassination of the generational leader, Charlie Kirk. | ||
| How does this kid, I mean, first of all, you know, you read him, you watch him read the fact that he got this great scholarship and everything. | ||
| He's going off to college and his college is paid for. | ||
| His education is paid for at a great school. | ||
| He's got his entire life ahead of him. | ||
| What's he so angry about? | ||
| Like, I just, I can't get there. | ||
| I can't get there in my soul, right? | ||
| It's, God, this young kid that had his entire life ahead of him, if he just challenged, you know, channeled his energy in the right way. | ||
| And I'm just, I just, it boggles my mind. | ||
| What, what, you know, and the irony of him calling Charlie fascist and hateful and evil. | ||
| And yet he's the guy with a 30 out six on top of a roof 200 yards away from a gathering where people are smiling and having fun and cheering and celebrating the greatest nation that God's ever created. | ||
| I'm just, I just have such a hard time wrapping my head around all of it. | ||
| And, you know, does he think that those people, as they watch a bullet hit our friend, like, does he think that that's going to convert those people to become, you know, Democrats the following day? | ||
| Oh, the guy on the roof, you know, he must be right. | ||
| His political ideology must be right. | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| It's absolutely insane. | ||
| Again, all that does is just take this entire, the amount of people you see online right now and say, hey, I was a Democrat and I was barely holding on and I was trying to hold on and I was just hoping the party would, and honestly, I switched part because like this is insane. | ||
| Benny, the bullets are only going one way in this country. | ||
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| You know, I saw my father, I was watching with my two children on my lap. | ||
| One of them's eighth birthday is today. | ||
| He was six at the time when a bullet nearly took out my father's head, right? | ||
| Then I got the call and I drove 50 yards away from the guy as he was getting arrested, Thomas Cook, on 95. | ||
| My best friend arrested the guy who tried to assassinate my father the second time. | ||
| I write about it in the book. | ||
| We were literally, you know, big hobby of mine is actually shooting. | ||
| We were shooting together. | ||
| My buddy was a sheriff in the Palm Beach SWAT. | ||
| He was part of the Palm Beach SWAT team. | ||
| He was driving south on 95. | ||
| We had just left each other. | ||
| And my best friend was the guy who arrested the second guy who tried to kill my father as I drove by him with the guy's hands out the window. | ||
| And then we see what happened to Steve Scalise. | ||
| And then we see what almost happened to Kavanaugh. | ||
| And then we see what happens to Charlie Kirk. | ||
| I mean, the bullets are only flying one way. | ||
| And yet I get to hear the nonsense and I get to watch all these networks every night, you know, post tweets from Nancy Pelosi about, you know, how deeply sorry she is. | ||
| Yet, you know, when Laura Brubet, you know, proposed the prayer on the floor of the house, they laughed. | ||
| And yet we get to see these nonsense tweets get posted by every network. | ||
| I'm sick and tired of it. | ||
| You know, we're all pissed. | ||
| You're pissed. | ||
| Everybody's pissed. | ||
| We're sad. | ||
| You know, we're angry. | ||
| You know, but what is it? | ||
| I mean, how is it that the decorum is only going one way in this country? | ||
| And yet we're the ones that are labeled as the fascists. | ||
| Isn't that kind of ironic? | ||
| You know, hey, the Republicans in this country are generally the ones that have the guns. | ||
| We're the ones that believed in the Second Amendment. | ||
| You know, they're not doing the shooting. | ||
| You know? | ||
| There was a data that, ALX, will you please grab it? | ||
| I saw it. | ||
| Yes, it's on my timeline right now. | ||
| Remarkable data that said something like 80% of Republicans say that there is no circumstance upon which you should celebrate somebody's death. | ||
| And only 30% of Democrats had the same take. | ||
| This is like the clearest data I've seen yet, Eric, to the radicalization and dehumanization that has happened. | ||
| And this is going to be my charge, is going to be going directly at that. | ||
| Because there were people celebrating your father getting shot. | ||
| I mean, some of the biggest celebrities in the world, some of the biggest music acts in the world were saying we need better shooters when your dad got hit in the head with a bullet. | ||
| And this data proves perfectly exactly what we're facing here. | ||
| There is an inhumanity and a darkness on the left that celebrates the death of people on the right. | ||
| It does not go the other way. | ||
| Benny, I couldn't come to grips with it. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| If you saw the purple-haired, you know, 16-year-old girl who is confused in life and threw up some stupid comment on Facebook, I could maybe kind of somewhat compartmentalize that the person was young and naive and didn't understand the world and misguided and probably had terrible parents and a lot of other things. | ||
| I can maybe get there. | ||
| When I watch TMZ and they're reportedly all laughing in the middle of a section after Charlie got killed, educated people with careers in the mainstream media who are grownups, who function in everyday society, who have real jobs. | ||
| Honestly, I cower. | ||
| I just can't believe that's the United States of America. | ||
| I mean, the only thing that matters in the world is preserving life and preserving happiness and preserving family. | ||
| And, you know, as I watch blood shoot out of the front of my friend's neck, you have grown-ups. | ||
| You know, they came out and said that that's not what they were like, but it was clearly, I mean, timing-wise, I think was clear as day based on watching that video. | ||
| And you have grown-ups and major networks cheering it. | ||
| I mean, hey, I'm a God-fearing person, as was Charlie, more so than maybe any of us, as are you. | ||
| Hey, these people are not going to the promised land. | ||
| That much I can tell you. | ||
| Like, they are not going to the promised land if that's how they act when a beautiful, innocent, nonviolent person who loved God, loved this nation, loved family, loved his wife, loved his children, takes a bullet to the neck from some sociopath. | ||
| Those people are not going to a good place, that much I can tell you. | ||
| The sociopath who was clearly radicalized from what looked like a very normy upbringing, hunting, fishing, and so on, and then took a very dark and radical turn, also posed in a very peculiar Halloween costume. | ||
| I don't know what to make of it. | ||
| I wanted to just toss it up on screen. | ||
| He dressed as President Trump not too long ago. | ||
| I think this is just a few short years ago, in an inflatable Halloween costume of your father carrying him on his shoulders. | ||
| What happened here, Eric? | ||
| What do you've seen so much of it and you've seen so much radicalization against your family? | ||
| What do you think happened here? | ||
| Well, I'm kind of curious what she has on her back. | ||
| I don't know what that is. | ||
| Is that a rifle? | ||
| Because it certainly looks like a slung rifle to me. | ||
| And I'm a sword or something. | ||
| They have a come from a hunting family. | ||
| The family hunts and does outdoor activities together. | ||
| And so, yeah, this is a toy long gun. | ||
| Isn't the irony, Benny, like, isn't the irony of all of this? | ||
| It's like, you know, like he won this whole movement. | ||
| He converted the minds and hearts and souls of all these people. | ||
| And yet, maybe the last to not convert were the ones who had to inflict pain on him because he realized he was winning. | ||
| Like, like they had lost the argument. | ||
| And so, you know, which he had said so often, you know, when somebody loses the argument, they resort to violence. | ||
| Like they had lost the argument. | ||
| And by the way, so had academia in the United States of America. | ||
| Like academia and these teachers and the wokeness, they had lost the argument. | ||
| They had lost it with students. | ||
| They had lost it with parents. | ||
| You know, the only people that were holding on were, you know, a small group of tenured faculty. | ||
| But other than that, they had lost the argument. | ||
| You know, and yet the last to convert realized having lost the argument that they would just do what Charlie always said that they did when they lost an argument, which was resort to violence, which was one thing that Charlie never did. | ||
| He just won the argument based on the merits of just being on the right side of the argument, which is first and foremost, but also then just being smarter and better read and everything else. | ||
| And it's just unthinkable to me. | ||
| It's maddening. | ||
| There are too many similarities to ignore between Thomas Matthew Crooks and now the shooter, Tyler Robinson in Utah. | ||
| And it's just very, it's just very strange. | ||
| I don't know if there's any update. | ||
| We still know maddeningly little about the man who shot your father in the head and killed a member of the MAGA movement. | ||
| Maybe you could just explain, is there anything further that your family has been briefed on? | ||
| Do we know anything more? | ||
| Do you see any eerie connections? | ||
| How would you engage in stopping this? | ||
| Eric. | ||
| You know, Benny, I write about this a lot in Under Siege because I am not satisfied. | ||
| And, you know, I write about it a lot, how my father is actually one of the most patient people you've ever met. | ||
| And, you know, for a whole host of reasons, you know, he said that he's been satisfied by the explanations. | ||
| And it's probably the first time in my adult life where I just respectfully disagree. | ||
| And he's got a different set of calculus clearly than I do as a son. | ||
| National security concerns, a whole lot of other things that all play into understanding the intel behind the scenes, but yet being able to compartmentalize somebody who tried to extinguish your life. | ||
| I'm not satisfied, Benny. | ||
| And I'm not satisfied because honestly, the FBI was able to get into the phones of every single, you know, 70-year-old lady who walked through the Capitol and took a selfie and destroyed their lives. | ||
| Yet we have one picture of the Butler shooter. | ||
| We have one, right? | ||
| I mean, he was cremated, what, five days later, seven days later? | ||
| You know, most family pets aren't cremated in that period of time. | ||
| Yet the guy who tried to extinguish the 45th and very soon to be 47th president, you know, were what, cremated within days? | ||
| You know, never able to get into his multiple phones. | ||
| No other picture of the guy was ever reported. | ||
| We know more about the guy from Guatemala who got deported last week than we know about the guy who tried to take out my father. | ||
| Now, does anybody actually believe if that was the opposite way around? | ||
| Let's put any other Democrat in there. | ||
| Do you really believe that the lack of transparency would have been as great as it was here? | ||
| I'm not freaking satisfied. | ||
| And I talk about that a lot in Under Siege. | ||
| We deserve answers. | ||
| We deserve to know who these people are. | ||
| We deserve to know what's on their phone. | ||
| And yet, everybody lawyered up. | ||
| There was a big clash between all the law enforcement agencies. | ||
| I know this because the Palm Beach County Sheriff down here is a good friend of mine, you know, in terms of crooks. | ||
| And obviously, it was partially their jurisdiction. | ||
| And he tried to get everything and they wouldn't give him anything. | ||
| And everybody lawyered up and everybody got subpoena and nothing was said. | ||
| And they let time, you know, fade this into oblivion, including by a mainstream media who didn't want to talk about it because it didn't work for their narrative. | ||
| I'm not satisfied with who the Butler shooter was. | ||
| I'm not satisfied by anything that we yet know about this Florida shooter, albeit at least he's on trial. | ||
| So we'll start to piece it together based on the fact that there actually is real journalism in this country. | ||
| And that is you, right? | ||
| That is independent voice like Benny Johnson and other podcasts, which are the only ones who will actually pick this part, you know, and actually talk about the messages that were written on these shell casings because you better believe ABC and CNN and NBC, it won't make a minute of their time because they're dishonest and it doesn't fit their political narrative. | ||
| But no, Benny, I'm not satisfied at all. | ||
| I think there's been a huge injustice that's been done. | ||
| We know so little about these people. | ||
| And I can tell you as a son and as a guy who stood on that stage every day and as a guy who's fought the very siege that I write about in this book, you better believe I want answers more than anybody. | ||
| What accountability does the media have who constantly call you and your family fascists, dictators, Hitler? | ||
| And then they know that they're messaging to mentally unstable people and weak people and people who are not of right mind. | ||
| They're lunatics. | ||
| And they know that what that messaging is saying is you could be a hero. | ||
| You have nothing else going on in your life. | ||
| You have no children. | ||
| You have no chance of happiness. | ||
| You could be a hero if you just killed Hitler. | ||
| And as the little we know about Thomas Matthew Crooks, that was where he went. | ||
| You can read some of his messages on other Discord and other servers. | ||
| And that style of language radicalized him. | ||
| Same thing here. | ||
| Catch fascist. | ||
| This individual was radicalized against Charlie Kirk by all the slanders and libels that they used against Charlie. | ||
| That messaging is distinct and it is, in fact, a call to violence. | ||
| I think they know what they're doing and they do it to your family every single day. | ||
| Just thoughts on that. | ||
| Well, I mean, it's ironic that he used a German rifle called a Mauser K-98, right? | ||
| You know, to extinguish Charlie's life, yet he's the one calling us fascist. | ||
| I mean, it's just like the great irony that he uses a German military rifle, right? | ||
| And yet he's the one that's calling us Nazis and fascists. | ||
| I mean, I'm having a really tough time with this one. | ||
| I mean, but yeah, I mean, they used to call us Nazis. | ||
| They used to say that, you know, our family hated Jewish people. | ||
| It's kind of ironic considering how hard I fight for Israel and how, you know, the fact that 80% of the employees in my organization are Jewish and, you know, probably 50% of my best friends are Jewish and my sister's an Orthodox Jew. | ||
| And yet, you know, I mean, they'd say this about my father. | ||
| They'd say this, you know, they used to say that my father was a sexist. | ||
| Well, I mean, that's kind of interesting considering his first campaign manager. | ||
| I believe the first female campaign manager ever for presidential, a winning presidential campaign. | ||
| You know who that was? | ||
| That was Kellyanne Conway. | ||
| I mean, so, so he's so sexist that his campaign manager, the first term, happens to be a female. | ||
| And then, wait a second, Susie Wiles, his second campaign manager. | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| You know who she happens to be? | ||
| A female. | ||
| But yet, Donald Trump is so, I mean, it's infuriating when they throw these, you know, these talking points out. | ||
| There's nothing to substantiate them. | ||
| It's how they label you. | ||
| But Ben, you know this. | ||
| I mean, long before any of this stuff, this was one of the first talking points. | ||
| I mean, they always played identity politics. | ||
| They always did this crap. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| This whole country caught on to it. | ||
| Like the identity politics actually doesn't work anymore. | ||
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| You know why? | ||
| Because in 2024, not only did we win the popular vote, but we won every single swing state. | ||
| We won Miami-Dade, a county that literally hasn't been won in 37 years, never been won by a Republican. | ||
| We won Miami-Dade by 11 points. | ||
| So we won the Hispanics. | ||
| We won the Venezuelans. | ||
| We won the Cubans. | ||
| We won the African Americans. | ||
| I mean, we won the youth vote. | ||
| We won the female. | ||
| I mean, we won everything across the country. | ||
| And by the way, one other really cool statistic. | ||
| There wasn't a single state in the country that tacked more blue. | ||
| They all tacked red, right? | ||
| And so clearly, the identity politics isn't working because it's the only thing that they ever ran on. | ||
| And it's failed horribly. | ||
| I mean, it's failed absolutely horribly. | ||
| So when I see these guys engraving, you know, 30 out 6 rounds, you know, taking a knife and trying to inscribe, I mean, you know, fascist remarks, I just find it so holy ironic. | ||
| Again, given this is the guy who's sitting on the roof of a building with a German rifle, you know, taking shots at people who, you know, what, love our nation and our flag and our constitution and our way of life. | ||
| I mean, I just very tough for me to get there, Benny. | ||
| And I'm, you know, and I'm an open mind. | ||
| It's unspeakably evil. | ||
| And I know that you've decried it. | ||
| And I want to just ask, you know, you have the year of some very, very powerful people. | ||
| You have some very powerful friends. | ||
| Kash Patel, one of our mutual friends, was up on screen. | ||
| What do you want to see happen here, Eric? | ||
| I mean, it can't continue spiraling like this. | ||
| It spirals like this into like secretarian violence into his failed state, into a zero trust society. | ||
| Like it can't continue. | ||
| Something, some hammer must be dropped. | ||
| What would you like to see happen? | ||
| Well, we can't allow it to spiral. | ||
| I mean, we can't allow it to spiral. | ||
| And by the way, and that's how we win. | ||
| And that's how we honor Charlie's life by not allowing it to spiral. | ||
| I don't think you would ever want to see this side spiral. | ||
| It would be the worst thing that could ever potentially happen for this country. | ||
| And we need to be the people who put our faith in God, who put our faith in the Constitution, who put our faith in the United States of America and fight for a society that we love. | ||
| We need to bring the family unit back. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I really, anything's possible in life, but I really question how many of these problems could be solved if you had greater faith in life and you had greater parents in life who were more engaged with their children and had more direction. | ||
| I don't believe that the first sign that this guy could do something as horrible as what happened two days ago was two days ago. | ||
| There were probably warning signs, right? | ||
| I mean, I could say that with almost perfect confidence that there are warning signs. | ||
| And you would hope society would wrap these people, hold these people, hug these people, support these people, and make sure that they aren't a danger to others and put up the red flag if they were ever going down that road or they ever saw the signs that somebody was going down that road. | ||
| And so, listen, I think we need God. | ||
| I think we need church. | ||
| I think we need family. | ||
| I think we need community. | ||
| But that's getting broken apart every single day. | ||
| I mean, you know, you have more and more. | ||
| You've got so many families that are, you know, females that are encouraged not to have children. | ||
| Society is almost doing that indirectly. | ||
| You have more single people than ever before. | ||
| You have more social pressures than ever before. | ||
| Traditional norms are being broken down in so many devastating ways. | ||
| Clearly, faith in this country is being broken down. | ||
| You saw that during COVID as they were keeping people out of, you know, you could go to your local pot store, you know, in Colorado, but you know what? | ||
| You couldn't go to the gym. | ||
| Like, I mean, isn't that ironic? | ||
| You know, you could go to the liquor store, but you couldn't go to church. | ||
| You know, Benny, I call bullshit, right? | ||
| And that's what's happening. | ||
| But, you know, the media allowed that to exist. | ||
| The media allowed that to happen. | ||
| In fact, they were complicit in this whole thing. | ||
| And so we need to rewrite the ship. | ||
| And I think we've already done so much of that. | ||
| Let me give the positive side of this. | ||
| The mainstream media is dead. | ||
| Laura Trump goes on Fox News on a Saturday night, which is normally known as like Death Valley, right? | ||
| And she has 2.6, 2.7 million people watching her, right? | ||
| If CNN in the middle of the week on a Thursday at nine o'clock, it's like 500,000 people, they're doing great. | ||
| What does that tell you? | ||
| Why does your show do as well as it does? | ||
| Why did Charlie Kirk's show do as well as it does? | ||
| Why did Dan Bongino, why were all these guys? | ||
| Why is Joe Rogan winning? | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because it's independent voice and people are sick and tired of being spoon-fed. | ||
| And so the power of the media has faded. | ||
| The power of, you know, the editorials has faded. | ||
| Common sense, you know, the pendulum has swung. | ||
| If you went back two years, the pendulum was all the way to the left. | ||
| And now the pendulum has swung so dramatically, right? | ||
| DEI is dead. | ||
| Woke is dead. | ||
| Transgender swimming, you know, in, you know, men swimming in women's sports in college, it's dead, right? | ||
| Having no physical fitness standard in the United States military, it's dead, right? | ||
| The pendulum is swinging back, and that's beautiful. | ||
| And with that pendulum, I think we're going to get more faith. | ||
| I think we're going to get more family. | ||
| And I think we're going to get more humanity. | ||
| Well, I want to end on a bright note, and I want to thank you for taking us there, Eric. | ||
| And the bright note is this: a story about you and Charlie. | ||
| And then, of course, I want to toss to you for something personal. | ||
| We've done this with every guest. | ||
| We've been bringing on Charlie's closest friends, business partners, the people who knew him the best, many times working behind the scenes. | ||
| Charlie Kirk went sprinting to me one day in what we called his home, which was the Trump Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., where Charlie was ubiquitous. | ||
| And he was like his living room. | ||
| He just lived there. | ||
| And he goes sprinting up to me and he shows me this photo on his phone. | ||
| This one, but then it's a sequence where the two of you stand back to back. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| And this is about who's taller. | ||
| And I guess it's a Rorschach block test because it's like, I don't actually know here, but he was so proud. | ||
| And you're a really tall dude, Eric. | ||
| He was so proud that he was, well, fighting you as to who's the tallest here. | ||
| And he was so full of life. | ||
| This was such an interesting battle for him. | ||
| This was something that was so unique for him. | ||
| And just the way that Charlie approached everything, which was full of vitality and energy and love and good humor. | ||
| And watching his life, of course, was kind of like watching a miracle. | ||
| It was almost like watching prophetic, something, the hand of God in the real world. | ||
| It was prophetic what he was able to accomplish in 31 years. | ||
| Many, many men 100 years old won't come close to what Charlie was able to accomplish in 31. | ||
| And so that's my humanizing Charlie Kirk story. | ||
| And I want to give you the floor to just recall something about Charlie, his life, a message, and what he would want, how he would want us to carry forward now. | ||
| It's the first time we ever did this. | ||
| Charlie and I always did this. | ||
| You know, who's taller? | ||
| Who's taller? | ||
| And I don't know. | ||
| Charlie, I love you to death. | ||
| I know you're looking down on Benny and I right now and everybody listening, but I think I got you in this picture, honestly. | ||
| Like, I'm going to go back to my desk. | ||
| I'm going to draw a little. | ||
| So, buddy, I love you, but I think I have you in this one. | ||
| But you're taller now, my friend. | ||
| You know, that was, I'll never forget. | ||
| He calls me up and my alma mater is Georgetown. | ||
| You know, it's one of the best schools anywhere in the world. | ||
| It's also probably one of the most woke. | ||
| It probably fell. | ||
| Washington, D.C., you know, obviously fell to the mob over the period of time. | ||
| And it's a wonderful school. | ||
| It's a wonderful place. | ||
| I loved it. | ||
| But Charlie goes, let's go back to Georgetown. | ||
| I'm like, listen, there's a lot of places we can fight, but like, do we really want to fight in Washington, D.C.? | ||
| He guessed us nothing from a vote standpoint. | ||
| It gets us. | ||
| He goes, no, no, let's go back. | ||
| We'll just have the greatest time. | ||
| So I'm like, I'm in. | ||
| I'm in. | ||
| So Charlie and I go back. | ||
| It was set up by the Young Republicans Club. | ||
| There was like 14 of them. | ||
| We show up in this auditorium. | ||
| The auditorium is packed. | ||
| And within, I mean, I think the second I open my mouth, all these shirts come off. | ||
| They're all wearing these like, you know, orange resist shirts or something. | ||
| And they go walking out of this auditorium, but they didn't make any noise. | ||
| It was so funny. | ||
| And like, they did it like silently. | ||
| And Charlie literally stands up and I stand up and we both look at each other and we start laughing and we go, in the history of protests, that was single-handedly like the least energetic, you know, least impressive protest ever. | ||
| And the rest of the audience goes absolutely crazy. | ||
| And so here we are in the middle of Georgetown's campus, Washington, D.C. | ||
| It kind of proves my point that Charlie would fight anywhere, anytime, anyhow, at any school, right? | ||
| I mean, you would think it would be better to go to Penn State and fight on those campuses, right? | ||
| Because the state that you're actually trying to win, right? | ||
| I mean, you're not winning Washington, D.C. | ||
| And you're not winning against this liberal academia at the time, but he didn't give a damn, Benny. | ||
| He just, everywhere he'd go, he wanted to change one mind at a time. | ||
| He always went into the kind of the lion's den. | ||
| And I took that first picture at Georgetown. | ||
| I'll never forget that in the back of my former, obviously my alma mater. | ||
| And we probably did that 20 times since. | ||
| And he's a wonderful guy. | ||
| He's a wonderful friend. | ||
| And I bet he's looking down laughing right now. | ||
| I truly, I truly do. | ||
| What a beautiful tribute. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I know that we'll have many over the next week or so as we remember Charlie Kirk. | ||
| I just want to remember Charlie Kirk and maybe give you the last word here, Eric, given how you know him so well. | ||
| What does Charlie want us to do moving forward? | ||
| What is his charge to us? | ||
| What would be his message today, Eric? | ||
| In closing. | ||
| Continue fighting for this country. | ||
| Continue fighting for family and continue fighting for God. | ||
| Very simple. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, a family that fights harder than any that has ever lived in America, the Trump family. | ||
| Under Siege is the book by Eric Trump, who broke the news today that he will be donating a considerable portion of the proceeds of this book to Turning Point USA in honor and memory of Charlie Kirk and being there for his family, his beautiful Erica and their two beautiful children. | ||
| We are going to gather around Charlie and his family. | ||
| We're going to protect them. | ||
| We're going to make sure they want for absolutely nothing. | ||
| And we're going to make sure that they are protected by prayers, most especially. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Eric Trump right here on social media on X. You can follow him at 6 million subscribers. | ||
| Of course, you know Eric Trump. | ||
| His book is available live now. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Live now on Amazon. | ||
| From Amazon. | ||
| Everywhere else. | ||
| Here's the link. | ||
| And here's the link, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Thank you, Eric. | ||
| That was poignant and beautiful. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Guy speed, friend. | ||
| You too. | ||
| We're putting the link in the chat. | ||
| We saw the comments. | ||
| We're putting the link to Eric's book in the chat. | ||
| You'll be able to see it in the chat. | ||
| Also, you'll be able to see it in the description. | ||
| If it's not already there, it will be appearing in seconds from now. | ||
| I believe that I believe that we have now covered most of the news. | ||
| This is the headline, ladies and gentlemen, from the New York Post. | ||
| Evil Within, Charlie Kirk's alleged killer, full of hate before shooting, says, family friend, hey, fascist, catch, found written on a bullet, full of hate. | ||
| How does it happen? | ||
| How does it happen? | ||
| How do you defeat evil? | ||
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You defeat evil with good. | |
| So this is what we're going to do. | ||
| We have two videos to share with you that we made. | ||
| Nay, Alex, I'm just going to check with you. | ||
| Make sure that we have all of the breaking news, that everything has been covered and everyone is up to date in the chat and in the audience. | ||
| I think that we've got everything. | ||
| Nothing else has occurred since we've been chatting with Eric. | ||
| I know we had a 30-minute interview there. | ||
| Okay, good. | ||
| All right, ladies and gentlemen, you are up to date on what we now know about the Charlie Kirk assassination. | ||
| Save one critical piece of information, which is that the family is Democrat. | ||
| I think. | ||
| Let's go ahead and put it up. | ||
| There was a Act Blue donation from the address under the same name. | ||
| So that also matches under the same name the Make America Great Again Committee, which would be the Trump Super PAC. | ||
| These are from the year 2020, so they're old. | ||
| The family is, are they registered Democrats? | ||
| Nearly every member of Tyler Robinson's family are registered Republicans. | ||
| Tyler is not. | ||
| He does not have a voting record. | ||
| So I want to just establish this is a breaking news environment. | ||
| So we're moving along at the speed of breaking news here. | ||
| He does not have a voting record from what is publicly available. | ||
| The families are registered Republicans, however. | ||
| Again, his father was a sheriff. | ||
| So, or his father worked 27 years for the police department. | ||
| It's a very strange donation. | ||
| The donation seems to split. | ||
| This is the FEC report. | ||
| This donation is tied to the donation is tied to the address that matches his address, his name that matches, of course. | ||
| And the donations go two separate ways. | ||
| One to Democrat fraudulent donation superstructure called Act Blue, and then one to President Trump Super PAC. | ||
| Again, these donations were in the last presidential cycle, 2020, two cycles ago. | ||
| So much has changed since. | ||
| When did he get accepted to university? | ||
| Did he get accepted to university and get radicalized? | ||
| That's my suspicion. | ||
| So he's very proud that he gets accepted to a university. | ||
| He gets radicalized by a Discord group, young left-wing women, left-wing teachers, who knows. | ||
| But it does seem that even five years ago in 2020, he was already donating to Democrats, although that donation also matched with a donation to President Trump's super PAC. | ||
| So very strange, very peculiar. | ||
| Again, not an enormous amount of sense to be made about it, but it is what it is. | ||
| All right, ladies and gentlemen, enough. | ||
| Enough of that. | ||
| I've spent the week staring into darkness. | ||
| Now let us see the light. | ||
| Charlie Kirk was my friend and my ally, someone whom we built with, somebody who was regularly on our program and someone who I was regularly on stage with all across America. | ||
| He's the single most noble and honorable and upright man I've ever met in my life and had the pleasure to meet and ever will meet. | ||
| Charlie Kirk is now legend. | ||
| I still haven't processed that. | ||
| He's gone, but Charlie Kirk processed it, which is something remarkable that we began to notice as we were putting together a tribute video for him. | ||
| That Charlie talked often about death and about legacy. | ||
| And we put this video together because this man who was so wise beyond his years and a man who I believe had the hand of God on his life in a prophetic way talked regularly about his connection to the divine and his connection to life after death. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we put together. | ||
| There's a short version of what we put together, and then we'll end the show with a longer version of a memory of Charlie's life. | ||
| We worked very hard on this in order to capture to our best abilities, poor abilities and inadequate abilities, the man who Charlie was and more importantly, what he said to us, what he wanted us to know about his death, because he did speak about death with regularity, Charlie did, and about how there is no death for a Christian. | ||
| You're simply changing our address. | ||
| You kill us. | ||
| You just change our address. | ||
| There is no death for a Christian. | ||
| Here is Charlie Kirk, in his own words, telling us what we should know right now about his killing and about where he is and what he believes. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| How do you want to be remembered? | ||
| If I die, everything just goes away. | ||
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How would you, if you could be associated with one thing, how would you want to be remembered? | |
| I want to be remembered for courage for my faith. | ||
| That would be the most important. | ||
| Most important thing is my faith in my life. | ||
| I don't know if you know this, but everyone dies. | ||
| It's important to remind yourself of that. | ||
| That you face God, the judge, and he's going to list everything you did wrong in your life. | ||
| It's going to be a long sentencing hearing for me. | ||
| Well, you get justice, which is hell, because that's what we deserve. | ||
| Mercy, which is less of that, which I'll allow the theologians to figure out what that is, or grace. | ||
| What is grace? | ||
| Grace is something so unique, so different, so profound. | ||
| Which is as soon as the sentencing is about to be ushered in, someone comes in and says, No, I will serve that prison sentence for him. | ||
| I will go into the prison cell for him or her so that they can live forever. | ||
| That's grace. | ||
| You didn't earn it. | ||
| You didn't check boxes for it. | ||
| You didn't go park cars for a ministry and that gets you extra points to go to heaven. | ||
| None of that's true. | ||
| It's that it's equally accepted for all people that allow Jesus Christ to be your Savior, the Savior of the world, to be born new and to be completely and totally renewed. | ||
| That's a gift that we must try to give all people in the world. | ||
| I mean, I've had an unbelievably blessed life been doing this now. | ||
| It'll be 12 years on June 5th. | ||
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You're such a young man to do it. | |
| Yeah, so praise God. | ||
| I mean, I've been all across the world. | ||
| I've met with world leaders. | ||
| I've flown in Air Force One, got to know a president. | ||
| I have an amazing family, the podcast, turning point USA, all that stuff. | ||
| And so you experience that, and you're like, what actually matters? | ||
| What matters is your relationship with the divine, your relationship with your family, your kids, and maybe a close collection of friends, and your relationship with the truth. | ||
| And you could decide to lie all the time, then you become a tortured individual, and you know those people. | ||
| You just turn on television. | ||
| They're constantly lying and they just become like disfigured either emotionally, spiritually, or physically. | ||
| Because when you lie, I believe you're actually committing suicide of the soul. | ||
| I really believe that. | ||
| Are you a Christian? | ||
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| Very, very much so. | ||
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Like, why is that? | |
| Exactly. | ||
| Oh, Jesus saved my life. | ||
| I'm a sinner, gave my life to Christ. | ||
| Most important decision I ever made. | ||
| So you believe the Bible is real? | ||
| Yes, I believe the Bible is true and real. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| Well, I could give you the technical answer. | ||
| There's never been an archaeological discovery that has contradicted the truth of the Bible. | ||
| And then, of course, the wisdom. | ||
| There is not a truth of the Bible that if you apply to your life, your life does not improve dramatically. | ||
| And then finally, we have the most accurate and transparent, historically robust account that one can have of the most important figure ever to live in the history of the world, Jesus of Nazareth. | ||
| And the resurrection is the pinpoint of my belief that Jesus did rise from the grave so that we may live. | ||
| And for those of you that have not given your life to Christ, I could tell you it is the most freeing, liberating thing that a human being can possibly do. | ||
| The most important thing that you can do, which is to be born new into the kingdom of God. | ||
| Charlie told us what was going to happen. | ||
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And he told us that we all die. | |
| And he told us that through our faith in Christ and through our life in Christ, that we should have no fear of death. | ||
| And Charlie had no fear of death. | ||
| We've said all that can be said. | ||
| I haven't slept. | ||
| We put together a Charlie Kirk mural here in Tampa. | ||
| You can see it here. | ||
| We put together a 20-foot mural. | ||
| We'll be working over the next week to build an infrastructure to make sure that we can put up Charlie Kirk murals, perhaps a lasting forever memorial to Charlie. | ||
| Physical and digital. | ||
| Boys, drop the verse of the day, please, in the chat. | ||
| You can't replace Charlie Kirk. | ||
| You can't. | ||
| You can't. | ||
| The best that you can do is in our own poor and inadequate ways to carry forward the mission of his life, which was spreading truth and light into the darkness. | ||
| Revelations 2.10. | ||
| Before we get to the Charlie Kirk video, memorial video that we have compiled of Charlie Kirk's finest moments. | ||
| I'm sure you will enjoy it as much as we do to end our program. | ||
| Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life. | ||
| From Revelations 2.10. | ||
| I just can't believe he's gone. | ||
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It's been a tough week. | |
| I love you. | ||
| I thank you for supporting us, for carrying us through. | ||
| I beg of you, be on your knees in prayer for Charlie, his beautiful wife, Erica, and their two beautiful children. | ||
| Three-year-old and a 16-month-old. | ||
| Those kids are going to know what a legend their father was. | ||
| We'll see to it that we defend Charlie's legacy with everything that we have in us. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, that starts with remembering what he did here on this earth. | ||
| And so here is the memorial video that we've put together. | ||
| This is the first time that we've played it. | ||
| We've put together that details some of the more profound and beautiful things that Charlie Kirk did and said in his life. | ||
| I judge a man by his actions and his words. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, in memory of Charlie Kirk. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| I want to be remembered for courage for my faith. | ||
| That would be the most important thing. | ||
| Most important thing is my faith money. | ||
| And for those of you that have not given your life to Christ, I can tell you it is the most freeing, liberating thing that a human being can possibly do. | ||
| The most important thing that you can do, which is to be born new into the kingdom of God. | ||
| And there's a lot of diff, there's a competition right now, and Satan is trying to tell people this doesn't matter. | ||
| It isn't true. | ||
| But there is a God who loves you. | ||
| He loves you enough to give you an opportunity and a chance to be able to live forever in eternal communion with him. | ||
| I mean, I've had an unbelievably blessed life in doing this. | ||
| Now it'll be 12 years on June 5th. | ||
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You're such a young man to do it. | |
| Yeah, so praise God. | ||
| I mean, I've been all across the world. | ||
| I've met with world leaders. | ||
| I've flown in Air Force One, got to know a president. | ||
| Hopefully he becomes president again. | ||
| You know, I have an amazing family, the podcast, turning point USA, all that stuff. | ||
| And so you experience that, and you're like, what actually matters? | ||
| What matters is your relationship with the divine, your relationship with your family, your kids, and maybe a close collection of friends, and your relationship with the truth. | ||
| Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Samuel, Isaiah, Ananias, the here I am is when legendary things happen in the Bible. | ||
| Six people that are some of the most important instruments for God's will here on earth. | ||
| And I'm just going to close with this. | ||
| That is my phrase going into 2024 I'm going to use. | ||
| I hope it is for you as well. | ||
| Because every single one of you needs to say, God, I am willing. | ||
| Use me. | ||
| Use me for your purposes. | ||
| Liberty is God's idea, not man's. | ||
| When we graduate from high school this coming June, we're handed a diploma that's also an invoice for hundreds of thousands of dollars that my generation is going to have to pay off through interest, high taxes, and a stagnant economy. | ||
| We here at SOS Liberty believe that if we do not change the conversation back to us, the kids that are going to have to inherit this debt, that our economy will be stagnant for years to come. | ||
| And our website, we have really interesting things. | ||
| We have videos, pictures, trying to inspire the youth, SOSLiberty.com, that has a wide variety of youth from all across the country jumping onto our cause. | ||
| Well, I'm having trouble finding a summer job, as is Mike, in a lot of different regards. | ||
| A lot of kids are feeling the effects of what we like to call, you know, with the Washington economy with a lot of debt, plummeting small business, with higher regulation and high taxes. | ||
| We're just trying to reinstitute the founding principles: free market, fiscal responsibility. | ||
| SOS Liberty is a nonpartisan. | ||
| We don't consider this a Republican versus Democrat issue, but rather a generational one. | ||
| I'm Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action. | ||
| Together, the largest conservative grassroots organizations in the country. | ||
| Thanks to our work, I talk to a lot of young people on campuses, at our events, on my radio show, podcast, and social media. | ||
| Said differently, I visit college campuses, so you don't have to. | ||
| I hear a lot from young people about their hopes, their dreams, and their fears. | ||
| You see, young people are idealists. | ||
| They respond to vision. | ||
| For the past four years, they've seen the vision of the Biden-Harris regime. | ||
| That vision is: you'll own nothing and be happy. | ||
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Is censorship blocking free speech on campus today? | |
| Without a doubt, and it's disproportionately targeted at conservatives, libertarians, Trump supporters, and you name it. | ||
| There is a disproportionate amount of people at the top that are targeting conservatives, blocking speakers that they disagree with, and they are advancing an agenda that, quite frankly, is very far to the left. | ||
| See, look how popular Trump is on your campus. | ||
| How does that make you feel? | ||
| That's not comedy. | ||
| That is a five-alarm fire for Kamala Harris because she's probably going to lose Pennsylvania. | ||
| I founded Turning Point USA to tell young people in America that there is a better way than big government and old school corruption. | ||
| Who is the party of youth and diversity? | ||
| We are the party of youth and diversity, not the Democrats. | ||
| Our whole philosophy at Turning Point USA is that the left has been winning far too much for the last 40 years. | ||
| And we're going to go where conservatives have really been losing the last couple decades and making sizable gains. | ||
| And you see that with what we've been able to do on campuses. | ||
| And I think long term, that's going to be one of the most important legacies of Turning Point USA is when you start to see real sizable change in the next generation. | ||
| come up to the mic, come up to the mic, come up to the mic, since you're so smart, show the world how smart you are. | ||
| We'll give you our mic, not your bullhorn. | ||
| So come on up. | ||
| They are not going to let this guy get re-elected without the most brutal, drawn-out fight. | ||
| We're going to have the tech companies getting involved. | ||
| The media is going to get worse than ever. | ||
| They're going to be taking down Twitter accounts left and right, videos on YouTube. | ||
| They are going to be coming after us. | ||
| They are going to be following us in the middle of the night. | ||
| They're going to be breaking into our houses. | ||
| You think I'm joking? | ||
| They are going to have violent. | ||
| That you will not be able to walk the streets of the MAGA hat without your physical health be put in jeopardy. | ||
| Show me you're losing without telling me you're losing. | ||
| I do not believe that we should be teaching children that white people are bad because of the color of their skin. | ||
| I think that's repulsive. | ||
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That's fine. | |
| That is fine. | ||
| And it's wrong. | ||
| That is fine as a belief. | ||
| No, that's what CRT is. | ||
| Last question. | ||
| Does it bother you that there was no primary? | ||
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No, it doesn't. | |
| I. I. | ||
| No, and it's for a practical reason. | ||
| Like, I would have preferred there have been a primary, but primaries are very expensive. | ||
| I would have preferred. | ||
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I'm not saying that I wouldn't have liked it. | |
| I'm just saying that I'm not making a huge issue about it. | ||
| So explain to me how the party of democracy can have a candidate that no one voted for. | ||
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Because it's within the rules. | |
| It's literally within the rules. | ||
| It's within the rules. | ||
| Like, we can change the rule later for the moment. | ||
| Of course, it's within the rules, but like no one voted for her. | ||
| So how's that democracy? | ||
| And this is why we are seeing Bobby Kennedy, Elon Moss, Tulsi gathered. | ||
| People that are card-carrying Democrats vote for Trump and voice support for Trump. | ||
| Because what's happening at the Democratic Party is this very sinister combination. | ||
| It's a party of censorship. | ||
| It's a party of war. | ||
| A party of open borders that is against actual traditional liberal values. | ||
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I agree. | |
| Donald Trump loved his nation so much so that he put all of his business empire on the line so that he would go and take a bullet for you to save America for your kids and grandkids. | ||
| Well, I would say you need to understand the biblical role of the father. | ||
| When it comes to your child, you are tasked to protect them both physically, spiritually, and emotionally. | ||
| Really outside the house and obviously in other ways as well. | ||
| Quality time is everything. | ||
| You're not above any of the duties or the tasks or the roles. | ||
| And it comes with a lot of responsibilities. | ||
| And so, again, I speak very directly to young men. | ||
| Erica is the young woman outreach part of this. | ||
| But young men need to be talked this way, actually, because they say, oh, I want to be a dad. | ||
| Like, really, are you earning enough money? | ||
| Have you done the right work? | ||
| Have you asked for a raise, asked for promotion, got up earlier, stayed up later to make sure your family does not have any financial pressures or issues? | ||
| Because here's the one thing I have found. | ||
| Once you have kids, there is this primal thing that comes into you where if you think you have worked hard before, when you have to go feed a child and provide for a family, you are willing to go to the ends of the earth and push yourself in ways that you never thought possible. | ||
| And I can tell you, I'm super blessed. | ||
| I have the best wife in the world. | ||
| We have an amazing life. | ||
| Building a family is the coolest thing ever. | ||
| And my prayer for all of you is that you one day can do that. | ||
| That's it's it's honestly the most joyful thing. | ||
| And I've, you know, I've had some pretty amazing experiences. | ||
| I've been very, very blessed. | ||
| Very lucky, you could say, but very blessed is the word I would use. | ||
| And the greatest joy I've ever had is coming home to my little daughter running up to my leg. | ||
| There's nothing that even comes close to it. | ||
| Not flying on Air Force One, not meeting with presidents. | ||
| That's all that pales in comparison to your little girl coming up and squeezing your leg. | ||
| Your marriage is a covenant. | ||
| Your relations with your kids is an outgrowth of a covenant. | ||
| They're under your stewardship. | ||
| But covenantal relationships are ones that we saw with Abraham and David and Israel and of course Jesus. | ||
| We need to celebrate, embrace, platform, and sometimes, if necessary, subsidize getting married and having children. | ||
| We are not having enough children in this country. | ||
| We should tell our young ladies that if you want to go be the CEO of a shoe company, that's fine. | ||
| But do you know what's really going to matter 30 years from now? | ||
| What's going to matter is whether or not you have the love of your life and you have decided to raise children. | ||
| Benny, I want to start with you. | ||
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I know Charlie respected you so much and loved you so much. | |
| Your thoughts tonight. | ||
| The Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, took home his servant, Charlie Kirk, to be with him right now in paradise. | ||
| I don't know why. | ||
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It is hard to bear and it is hard to overcome. | |
| But this I do know, Laura: Charlie Kirk is a martyr. | ||
| Charlie Kirk is an American martyr. | ||
| Charlie Kirk is a Christian martyr. | ||
| Charlie Kirk gave his life for this country and for his faith. | ||
| He died as he lived, spreading salt and light to some of the darkest corners of our nation and culture and living with a full heart. | ||
| And we must rise up with that same full heart and venerate him and remember him by continuing his work. | ||
| And that work would be this. | ||
| To defeat the blackened evil that is overcoming our culture right now and fight it back with truth and good and light. | ||
| Charlie always had a hopeful heart and he always had a positive outlook. | ||
| He is the single most honorable and noble, passionate visionary I have ever known or will ever know. | ||
| There will never be another one like him. | ||
| God called home his servant today and we must all set about the work and the business of honoring Charlie by defeating that evil. | ||
| God help us. |
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