The Ben Shapiro Show - BREAKING: CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSIN IN CUSTODY 2025-09-12 18:01

Sept. 12, 2025 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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BREAKING: CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSIN IN CUSTODY 2025-09-12 18:01

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	There is no question that that is the case.
	And all the people who've been playing FTSE with these folks, all the people who have been promoting it, in the name of just asking questions or or trying to unmask the great conspiracy that will suddenly change the world forever.
	All those people have elevated precisely the kinds of scavenger movements that I'm talking about that end with violence.
	Everyone knows where the violent death threats are coming from.
	Everyone knows it.
	It is a variety of movements.
	It is not just one, but it is also not a mystery.
	And it is worth calling all of that nonsense, disgusting, awful trash out.
	And by the way, I should mention that the number, the number of Jews who have who have expressed to me their absolute heartbreak at the murder of Charlie Kirk is extraordinary.
	extraordinary.
	It was the Prime Minister of Israel who put up a full statement lamenting the death of Charlie Cranston.
	Anything from Qatar or Saudi Arabia.
	Like this is Charlie.
	Charlie was an Israel supporter.
	Charlie supported a lot of things that a lot of people didn't like.
	The people who have created the permission structures for this sort of violence, those permission structures need to be called out wherever they are, right and left.
	I do not think that they are equally distributed right and left.
	I think they are significantly more common, significantly more deeply embedded on the left.
	They need to be called out.
	It is imperative to do that.
	It is imperative.
	Well, Charlie is a real human being with a real life.
	He was a married father of two.
	They had to ship his body.
	It's unthinkable.
	It's just inexpressible.
	Yesterday, his body was shipped back from Utah to Arizona, where he lived with his wife and his two children.
	He was escorted by the vice president of the United States on Air Force II, which of course is a tremendous posthumous honor.
	Here's the video of the Vice President escorting Charlie's casket.
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	Royal music Sigh The Plain D board in Arizona.
	Here's video of Usha Vance, the second lady of the United States.
	And Erica Kirk, Charlie's young wife, deboarding the plane, holding hands.
	And Erica Kirk, Charlie's young wife, of course, is a new man.
	I can't even imagine.
	The movements that make a woman like this the widow make children like Charlie's two little kids, orphans.
	They put them, there are no words.
	There are legitimately no words.
	It's a fairly moving picture of Charlie's wife, Erica, raising her rosary outside the window.
	One of the things that Charlie relied upon in his life, as we saw over and over, was faith.
	His wife Erica was Catholic, Charlie was Protestant.
	It's Charlie will leave an extraordinary legacy for all people of faith, for people who believe in a better country, of community and family, of traditional biblical values and free speech, and aggressive and interesting debate and discussion about the key issues that matter.
	Charlie's legacy will never die.
	The president of the United States yesterday talked about TP USA, of course, as turning point USA, Charlie's massive and powerful organization, and talked about keeping TP USA going, which we hope to help in any way that we can here at Daily Wire.
	I spoke to his wife yesterday.
	She's like devastated.
	Of course.
	But in between the devastation, they want to keep turning point going.
	Because so many people called in to me with donations.
	They went, I don't know who do we give donations to her.
	Do we give it to Turning Point?
	Do we give it to, you know, any one of the hundreds of colleges that he worked with or universities.
	And uh they want to keep turning point going.
	They think they can do it.
	He had a very good staff, I noticed.
	You know, Charlie would call me up.
	I'm president of the United States, and I get a call like a day before.
	I can't just come.
	He said, it's so important.
	Could you play and then usually try and get there right here?
	20,000.
	Yeah, he was he was such a great guy that he had to end this way.
	But you know, in many ways, uh he's bigger now because of what happened.
	He was he was really big, important, and I guess this doesn't help his family very much when I say this, but in terms of, you know, very, very important, getting that such a good word, such a solid word.
	You know, we have so many bad people, so many bad philosophies, ideologies, uh, politics.
	His was basically just good.
	Family, he talked about family, talked about get married, go get married, you know.
	Sounds old fashioned when you think about it, but he's right.
	He was just he was just on.
	And it's a shame that that voice has been stopped.
	Um I was going through my text with Charlie yesterday, and um he had sent me back in December a picture of his uh newborn son, because we were having some conversations about things we could do together.
	That's who Charlie was.
	And those values came out of him.
	When you when you look at even at pictures of Charlie or videos of Charlie, he's always smiling, right?
	He's always upbeat, he's always energetic, he's always optimistic.
	A light went out of the world, a true light went out of the world.
	And in order for that light to be rekindled in any shape, I mean, in order for that torch that he was carrying to generate the same amount of light, millions of people are gonna have to pick up a match and hold it up.
	And some of those matches will become torches themselves.
	But that's the only way to spread the light that Charlie Kirk really was.
	And the people who are who are smearing his memory, the people who are part of movements that make the world worse, those people do need to be defeated.
	They need to be defeated, and people need to speak out against that.
	They need to debate it, they need to discuss it, they need to point out that these people are wrong, and those movements are bad, and those movements are horrible for America.
	And what Charlie stood for more than anything else was a non-victim mentality.
	He stood for the prospect that any American, even one who never went to college, could start an organization that became the most important political organization in the country and become the the confidant of the president and vice president of the United States at the age of 31.
	And that's the thing that Charlie stood for.
	That if you make the right decisions, you get married, you have kids, you find religion, you find God, you spend time in your relationship with God, that your life will get better.
	That is the thing that Charlie stood for.
	President Trump talked yesterday about this morning rather, about attending Charlie's funeral.
	Again, the date has not yet been released for Charlie's funeral.
	I assume it will be sometime next week.
	Uh he suggests maybe next weekend.
	Um talking about Charlie's funeral is just I keep using the word unthinkable because it is.
	It does not compute.
	Does not compute.
	Here's the president.
	And I also go to a funeral for a great gentleman named Charlie Kirk, who should not be having a funeral right now.
	He should be out there in front of people.
	He loved doing it.
	He was so good at it.
	And I mean, he had a big impact on the election.
	You know, I won I got so many young voters that no Republicans ever gotten anything close.
	I I dominated with young people, and it's never happened before.
	And I give him so much credit.
	Yes.
	Well, that is for sure true.
	You know, we will we'll obviously keep tabs as more information emerges on the shooter and the ideology that drove that shooter for the moment.
	And for the rest of our lives, hug your family.
	Recognize that what makes this country great, what makes this country good is the stuff that Charlie was doing, and then pick up that match or pick up a torch and carry it on.

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