Death Threats Against Conservatives SKYROCKET After Charlie Kirk Assassination ft. Steven Crowder
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So when people say that I'm being irresponsible, I am doing the most responsible thing I can think to do in trying to right maybe some errors, mistakes on my part.
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I told people was dangerous.
I didn't tell them the entire extent.
And I hope people know and take it seriously.
And the only thing that's going to curb it is for the left to be afraid to even think of it.
So to get a better sense of what's going on, we are being joined by the man himself, Steven Crowder, to give us an understanding of what his perspective is, what's been happening to him.
I've obviously talked a lot about what we are going through here: security assessments, increased security.
It's getting crazy.
How's it going, Steven Crowder?
How are you doing?
Well, I appreciate thanks for the intro.
Here's the thing: I wouldn't even necessarily say that it's different.
And that's what I think is so bothersome: we have lived under this cloud for very, very long.
Anytime we show up, anytime, you know, when I've talked about this and Charlie said it as an inspiration, he took it to a different level.
You know, changed my mind was an idea to challenge the left in 2016 on the idea of civil dialogue.
Like, we'll just, we'll do it.
It won't be cable news.
It won't be edited.
And it became increasingly violent.
I mean, I've had, so to give you an idea, and the left always says, oh, you're fine.
You're okay.
I had a trans, and if this is on YouTube, I had a trans individual scream at me and then steal a homeless man's lunchbox pencil case, whip it at me from a blind spot.
I've had someone try to bash me over the head with a rock.
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I've had attempts with concrete milkshakes, slash tires, calls to firebomb the car, attempts on my life, actually a terrorist.
And I haven't talked about this until now.
And you know this because the real threats, you don't want copycats.
Yep.
Terrorists from Yemen by way of Sweden posting the address, my family's work address, the route to between the addresses.
And I can only, my life is likely saved because a fan saw it posted on YouTube in a comment and cross-referenced the zip code with East Grand Rapids PD and they showed up at my house.
When I performed, when I did a change my mind at SMU, the man in charge of the police there asked my father, he said, why does he need this kind of security?
What I mean is, if you were in a restaurant, if you were at your school recital for your kids and someone came up and was throwing a milkshake at you, or you don't know if it's strawberry, chocolate, vanilla acid, or concrete, you'd beat their ass.
We haven't because we've been taking the high road.
One threat that we had that manifested in physical action when we tried to get it dealt with, the legal response threatened the life of a third party public personality.
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And so our lawyer is basically like, you can fight this and win, and then they will use that against you to target the third party.
Right.
Or you can choose to back off, stop the fight.
They were effectively, it was like blackmail.
And I, and I, and, and for security reasons, I can't even begin to describe what exactly was going on or how it would play out because that would open the door and create the threats.
The next day, one of the people who lived there, because again, we don't operate there anymore, was physically attacked by this man.
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And it became a huge issue.
The locals are all really pissed off because I'm not, you know, they were mad when I was there because of the threats, the swattings, the bomb threats.
And now I'm gone and it's still happening because these people have still published our old address acting like it's real.
If I list out all of the things that we had to deal with, one recent incident this past weekend, just days after Charlie Kirk's assassination, I think the unfortunate reality is we can't convey the true extent of how dangerous the left is because it increases the danger to us.
But as you've already pointed out, then people don't know just how serious it is.
Well, that's what, I mean, you know, there have been a lot of mixed emotions.
And I'm not talking about, no, I've been really clear too, because I feel like there's a lot of clout chasing out there, people saying, me and Charlie Kirk were best friends.
I said, Charlie Kirk and I were not close friends.
People need to know that there are still crosshairs on that microphone and people need to take it seriously.
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So when people say that I'm being irresponsible, I am doing the most responsible thing I can think to do in trying to right maybe some errors, mistakes on my part.
And I hope I see more guys out there willing to protect, not be violent offensively, protect our own because we haven't.
Lawful self-defense.
And this is a good point you bring up because there's a viral video.
I commented on it where it showed all these instances where people on the right had gone to rallies and got attacked and they never defend themselves.
It was very rare.
There was like based stick man back in, you know, what, 2018 or whatever.
The one time a right winger start after the left came and attacked a peaceful rally, they defended themselves.
So I, I, I, and agree, look at this.
It is still you and I talking about the restraint we need to have, how we don't want an escalation of violence, but we have to be prepared when they engage in violence against us for legal, lawful self-defense to stop that from happening.
A lot of the most serious threats that we get that we forward to the FBI and things like that are just lunatics saying things that make no sense, but are serious threats.
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This changes now.
And while I always consider the left to be a very serious threat, and we have security because of the left, Charlie Kirk didn't even believe that this was possible.
If Charlie Kirk thought by stepping out into that tent, he would take a bullet, he wouldn't have done it.
We thought security was good enough.
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It's not going to happen.
And it did.
And I'll tell you where the real fear comes now.
I have friends on Facebook that I have known for decades since I was a child.
I have gone to holiday dinners with them.
Let me guess.
Hold on before you tell me this, okay?
because I just had this conversation three times this week.
All right, let's see if I'm clairvoyant.
Let me guess.
Shocked at the gleeful celebration or condoning of the assassination and you're no longer friends.
Am I close?
You are.
You are.
You hit the nail on the head.
I have seen posts that have argued Trump killed Charlie Kirk to justify an expansion of the security state from people I know who know that Charlie and I were friends.
And I heard what you said about you're not close friends.
I would also like to.
make sure I clarify this too.
It's a weird thing, right?
I knew Charlie.
I had his phone number.
We texted.
We didn't go out for beers or go golfing or anything, but I didn't consider him just to be a work colleague because of the support that he had offered me.
I considered it to be a friend.
And there are many people that I don't hang out with I consider to be friends, but I don't want people to think that we were like, you know, bar buddies or anything like that.
You were closer with him than I was.
And I just want to be clear about that because I know that people go, do you think this is what Charlie would have wanted?
I mean, we had some, which I'll talk about probably more off-air, some serious close calls where every time I've been out in public, I've known that it's a very serious possibility.
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And I know that he knew risk.
So whether he thought he would pay with his life to a terrorist, I don't know, but I know he went out there and did it anyway, assuming some risk.
And what I mean to say is we all think it's possible.
But my point is, if Charlie Kirk knew at that moment walking out meant there was a guy waiting to kill him, he wouldn't have done it.
No one is going to walk into death intentionally for no reason.
We all assume the risk.
That's why Charlie had security, because of course it's a possibility.
What's scary now is when run of the mill default libs, we call them, are posting justification, lying about Charlie Kirk, or saying other people deserve it too.
I'm sitting here looking at these posts from people that I've known my whole life.
And I messaged one friend saying, you realize that the guy was a friend of mine that for three years, we would go out and visit.
We would do this show with him and he would sit with us.
And that to see other people, my whole feed is filled with every liberal being like, other people deserve what's coming.
And that's when I realized the fear we have now and the increase in death threats and the increase in security, a line has been crossed and it didn't, you know, I was asked the other night, one of our members in the calling show, do you think this will wake the left up and they'll calm down?
We presented every single view from those on the right as violence.
If they were pro-life, it was violence against women.
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If they were pro-Second Amendment, it was violence because how many lives do you want to save, right?
Gun violence.
If it was pro-First Amendment, they were inciting violence.
If they were anti-Black Lives Matter, they were pro-police killing black violence.
And at the end of this, if they're silent, it's also violence.
So when every single one of our positions has been presented as violence that cannot be dealt with democratically, it is a logical conclusion from the mentally ill that we are living.
And that is a useful tool to the left.
And I remember too, I mean, when you were coming in, I don't want to mislabel you, but more moderate than me.
I think that's fair to say.
We're having conversations saying, man, these guys will kill you.
That would have been the only acceptable response.
Instead, they said, hey, both sides, that's verifiably untrue.
They said, actually, this shooter is a Trump, is a Trump supporter.
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Remember, we had that DOJ leak.
People said I lied.
People said I was lying, right?
They said the same thing about the Nashville Manifesto, by the way.
It was a lie until it was a liability.
And then the mayor, the police, and the FBI said they would investigate and sue me.
By the way, that's one of the few instances of political violence on the left.
And Cato put a note saying, just note, we did include Covenant High School, even though it's considered borderline because the PD said it's not ideologically motivated.
When we released that, that, well, two points here.
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The reason we got that leak from an inside source, right, the, whenever it was, within 24 hours of the shooting, because someone at that department was concerned that it would be buried because he had seen things like this buried before.
Here's the most important part.
Bullet engravings, antifasings, transferry stuff.
The shooter's still out there.
And so's Charlie Kirk's family.
So's the Kirk family.
So are you.
So are my entire team.
And we're on the menu.
And the left was more concerned with tarring and feathering my name, your name, than keeping people safe.
And I'm going to say it like this, because everybody who watches me knows that we talk about civil war periodically, but more frequently than others.
I certainly get the memes, but we don't talk about it that much, but it does come up quite a bit.
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Yeah.
And I'm taking credit for my predictions being correct in many ways, though we haven't reached the full fruition.
And the example that I've given is in September of 2020, I said on this show and on Tim Kest IRL that if Trump loses in November, his supporters, they're going to go to D.C. They're going to storm into the White House.
They will not accept this defeat.
November came and went.
I was called paranoid, crazy, rage baiter, pessimist, blackpilled by some on the right, all of the left.
They mocked me.
January 6th happened, and all of a sudden the liberals' narrative changed.
It wasn't that I was crazy for suggesting it, even though it wasn't the White House and it wasn't November.
They said Tim Poole had foreknowledge of January 6th and that statement proved it.
And so what I have described last year, during the election, before the election, I said, I was debating San Cedar.
I said, do you think Trump's going to use the military for immigration enforcement?
And he goes, yes.
And I said, and are you going to let him?
And his response was wishy-washy, kind of like, well, liberals might actually do it, but maybe not.
And I said, my fear is that the president is going to call the National Guard as it pertains to immigration enforcement.
There will be a confrontation between state leadership as to who controls the National Guard.
It'll go to the courts and there will be a fight over who's actually in charge and this will create a rift.
So I am advocating right now the same reason that we advocate concealed carry.
The left needs to fear ramifications.
If they behave like us, the left, in other words, if you come to, well, there's a change of mind, a stand-up show, and you behave the way we behave, guess what?
Show me one instance where someone was assassinated as an act of terrorism in front of their family, merely for opinions, and then gleefully celebrated thereafter.
That was not registered as political violence according to the recent economist numbers, which by the way, also have no left-wing political violence the entire summer of 2020.
For example, pretty much any white on minority crime is considered to be violence labeled right.
Minority versus another minority or minority versus white is not.
Any crime against government officials or halls of government is considered right-wing violence, including in some instances where it's members of Antifa committing the crime.
But you don't need to know anything else.
Trump supporter here, bang, bang, not political violence.
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Those are the numbers being circulated.
Yeah, I made a graph earlier where I took the, it's like 13 major cities and then said break down all the violent crime incidents in 2023, which is usually the more accurate data by political party control and preference.
Not a single one of what the crimes committed in George Floyd's name, you know, where you had over 20 killed, over 2 billion in damages within the first few months.
Daryl Brooks, Waukesha, killed six, injured 70, not included.
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Again, that Portland shooting, none of these are, you have to throw all of it out.
For the past 10 years, we have seen, or longer, we've seen the far left.
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I mean, I could say since going back to Occupy, the far left has gone out and been violent and even they use, I would say for a while, low ground, I call it blunt terrorism.
And that is when an antifa guy shows up to a peaceful rally and punches someone in the face, it's not national news.
No one cares, but it is terror and it does make people think twice about doing these events.
They've now crossed the line into a direct assassination of a high-profile political figure and celebrated it.
I don't know what argument there is to be had when they're lying about Charlie Kirk, justifying his murder and defending those who would call for mine.
And they have the nerve to say, my God, the fascism, oh no, Jimmy Kimmel got fired while they previously celebrated Roseanne and Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk was just killed.
They are more upset that their comedian with some of the worst ratings in all of media, Jimmy Kimmel was getting 200,000 in the key demo.
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And they're saying, this is the worst thing's ever happened to us while Charlie Kirk, his family is still mourning his assassination.
I don't even know how to have a conversation with someone like that to explain to them, we may disagree, but let's live together.
They've said no.
And I don't know where this goes other than escalation, which worries me.
Yeah.
Well, it doesn't worry me because we're in it.
We're in it.
That's true.
And I'd rather know that we're in a fight.
And that's why I'm telling people, that's why I'm sounding the alarm because I know and you know because we've been in it and Charlie knew and a lot of the public doesn't.
They think, gee golly, it's trolling.
And they didn't just answer softly, the left, meaning like, yeah, they kind of tacitly, no, they answered forced.
Look, let me ask you this.
YouGov, bastion of conservatism?
Of course not, right?
I want you to close your eyes for a second and picture a fascist.
Picture a fascist party, a totalitarian, you know, Nazis or it could be under Stalin, whoever, Pinochet.
I am saying that lawful violence in response to what you've stated is completely acceptable.
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If that makes me an extremist, great.
They have argued they have the right to self-defense because your words are violence.
And I think it's fair to say we have a right to defend ourselves when you're assassinating our friends and political leaders or every degree of violence they've engaged in, from showing up and beating people to throwing firebombs to giving out Molotov cocktails.
Okay, we've always had the bounds of society where we deemed something unacceptable and you were not to live amongst us because it was such a violation of decorum.
Do you think if that day a professor showed the film to his students and said, yeah, I'm glad that the bits of his brain landed on his bitch's jacket, do you think he would be fired?
Of course.
Now, let me ask you, 63, same day, if he said to his classroom, men are biologically different from women, would he be fired?
I have to, what I had stated to Variety when they interviewed me on this one is it's not so much that it's an increase in the threats.
It is, it is.
It's just making more real what we already knew.
I was talking to a veteran who had him on the show on IRL.
And he said, you know, when we were in combat in say Afghanistan, you feel the threat when you go out there, but after a couple of weeks, you start to become complacent.
Maybe you don't look around the corners anymore.
And that's when the ID goes off or you get shot at.
And I feel like that's what this is really exposed.
I just said, I didn't want you to think I, I know, initially said 30 to an hour.
I told him to say, I'm good for now, but whatever you want.
Obviously, you can boot me.
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Yeah.
You know, here's the thing too.
I went through, you know, some very public legal battles and I had, I'll use the term, spineless conservatives dox the house where I and my children sleep to Antifa.
I think you kind of covered some of this without getting into detail.
You have to be perfect because what the left sees, what the world sees, I should say, is what gets through.
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Guarantee you for what you saw happen, the absolute atrocity, tragedy, the cold-blooded assassination as an act of terrorism against Charlie Kirk was one of dozens that got through.
And there's a difference between drama, oh, someone say they want to kill me.
I'm a homebody, but I was getting a lot of threats at one point.
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When she met me, I was largely kind of staying at home and being careful.
So I would just tell her I had some close calls.
On our show, she saw a highlight reel of everything from me getting punched in the face, horse collared, people attempting to firebomb, throwing all this stuff.
And she has been.
Now to the uninitiated, what someone would view as paranoid.
Or she said, I didn't know all.
I didn't know how I only see the positive interactions.
So I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to play the same game they do.
I'm going to make an institution, which is a meaningless term.
I'm going to create a nonprofit.
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I'm going to call it an institution.
And then I'm going to get some doctors who have like the stupidest doctorate degree so I can have doctor whoever.
Then we're going to take every gang shooting and say, because liberals released them from prison, this is leftist violence because it's in line with their worldview.
And then take a look at what those charts are going to show.
Let me give you, and I have this written down here.
Billy Davis, according to these charts that are circulating right now, this is a white woman who stabbed an Asian woman on a bus in 2024, Bloomington, Indiana.
Well, I mean, because look, the left talks about white supremacy and white privilege.
And so the data shows they have a white liberals have an out-group preference.
So if then the violence is targeting non-black people, then I think our institution can just refer to that as leftist and we'll make those charts, right?
Now, the reality is.
Good enough for me.
But we've been honest the whole time and this doesn't work on the right.
But liberals fall for it every time when the left does it.
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No, you're absolutely right.
Yeah.
And that's also why it's hard sometimes to get the right to sort of coalesce, you know, around each other because they just have a naturally rebellious streak.
Just understand the enemy that it is we're facing.
Because publicly, privately, overtly, he said gay people should be welcome in their movement.
And he's got viral videos where a young gay conservative is talking to him in the microphone and Charlie says, you don't need to describe yourself as gay.
Anyone who has a problem with it, I'll make the case.
And this reaction, this reaction saying actually more violence comes from the right, it tells you the left is incapable of taking accountability and they are going to continue down this path.
More people are going to die unless something changes from our side.
The worst thing I think about it is, you know, Mehdi Hassan is a good example.
He published a list of out-of-context quotes, as have many of these liberals, because this is the second degree of how they try to defend and justify the murder.
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What they're doing now is, here's what I think happened.
I think when Charlie first was assassinated, liberals were all cheering and dancing.
And she said, she was laughing and said, the best thing about it is that Charlie was not well known enough to be a martyr.
That's what they thought.
And then the Yankees, the Cowboys, all these football teams held a moment of silence for Charlie in Vegas on the marquee they were putting up in memory of Charlie Kirk.
Are people now going to be mad at us for cheering for this?
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Don't worry, says Mehdi Hassan and Occupy Democrats.
It was wrong to kill him, but look how evil he was.
And then the liberals get to go, well, he was evil, I guess.
But those quotes were all lies.
The most egregious of which is there's memes going on all over Facebook where it says black women in brackets, and then it says dot, dot, dot, don't have the brain processing power to be in these positions.
It's about Jackson Lee and Katanji Brown Jackson who said I'm a DEI hire.
He said, these women who have stated publicly they were hired under DEI didn't have the processing power, the brain processing power to hold these jobs.
He was referring to specific individuals, not whole groups of people, but they lie because they need you.
What they want is they want liberals to publicly say, sure, the assassination was wrong, but privately think it was okay.
Well, here, let me, let me, here's the thing.
They killed Charlie Kirk, who was talking specifically about those women who said they were DEI hires, right?
Black women.
How about now you deal with the people you've turned into this?
Those dumb bitches who happen to be black, Jackson Lee and Katanji Brown Jackson.
Hey, those dumb bitches who happen to be black and tell you they got their job because they're black.
They're saying they got their job because they're black.
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You draw your own conclusions.
I don't care anymore.
I don't.
And you know what else?
When I talk with actual, with black people, and I'm a guy, again, after, you know, we changed, one of the things we changed, changed my mind to talking with people because quite literally, it's harder to set up a shot.
So I can walk with people and just talk with people and tell, I had to do it out of necessity.
Then we did black and white in the gray issues where I go into a barbershop.
I talk.
I'm surrounded by black men.
They are not offended at all.
When I go, hey, you know what?
Do you understand why we get concerned when we find ourselves at the intersect of ML King Jr. Boulevard and Malcolm X?
They go, Yeah, we are too.
It's the left who wants to perpetuate this offense because that's their currency.
Did you evil?
Did you evil?
Yeah, he didn't say it, but they're still doing it, right?
Did you know, Stephen, that Charlie Kirk said, and I quote, black children are a gift from God.
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Now, that doesn't sound like a white supremacist to me, but let me caveat that.
What actually happened was that Charlie Kirk was at one of his events and a black woman walked up with her young child, who's about a year old, and she was asking Charlie a question about faith and made a mention of having a child.
I try to make sure the title is as accurate, conveying my opinion without distorting it as possible.
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And I still have people on the right saying, rage bait, you're, oh, this, you know, we put up a title and like yesterday with Jimmy Kimmel getting fired.
And as soon as it goes live, all the comments, you know, there's like three or four comments saying, this better not be clickbait.
This better be real.
As if I'm lying when I say Jimmy Kimmel was fired because they won't tolerate lies.
The left, they revel in it.
Yeah, well, that's the one thing they do agree upon.
Like they agree upon lying.
Like this is the method, this is the battle plan.
Whereas conservatives, we can disagree about a whole lot.
I went through this with X this week where it doesn't matter.
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Did you want to talk about our bingo card?
If a head of French state was going to be showing her snatch in court because of Candice Owens.
No, but it is ridiculous.
But what I did want to say is on the issue of lawful violence, the idea of self-defense, that we will not tolerate this anymore, there is a clear and a distinct bit of information the left needs to understand.
For the longest time, we did not think you were actually going to kill us.
We thought it was possible.
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And we thought that when you showed up with rocks or Molotovs, for the most part, the violence was bad, but we could try to avoid the fights, right?
They say in the fight, any fight you avoid is a fight you've won.
The problem now is they've actually killed Charlie Kirk.
And now I have extreme fear of death from the left, not just because of what I witnessed, but because they are posting online a list of names with you and me on them saying we should be next and saying go kill them.
My armed guards with AR-15s will do it for me who are around me and watching to make sure if you try to step forward and risk the life of me and my family, they will use all legal means to stop the threat before you can hurt other people.
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Yeah.
Well, I understand that, for example, when I did, because a lot of the changed my minds weren't even on campus, they were just in public spaces.
It's the one time I didn't carry.
My security guards were there for the left.
Because what do you think I do to you?
What do you think I do to these people if they're not there?
I've got advice for these leftists, for these liberals, and I hope they take it.
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Hear me.
I want you to go to Walmart, buy a nice little cheap folding table and some big white poster board and write on it, Trump is a fascist, change my mind and go sit down at a university and tape it there, have a peaceful conversation.
That'll show those conservatives, challenge them to abate and their ideas, change their minds, and you will win the political debate.
I told people that the left obviously is, they are uncaring.
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They're unempathetic.
I didn't shout it enough.
And I'm trying to make those wrongs right.
Everyone out there know what you are in for, understand the risks.
I don't want to see any more bodies stacked.
We didn't believe it.
Even if there will be.
We knew it was bad, but we didn't want to believe it would get to this point, even though we kind of knew.
But Stephen, it's been awesome having you.
I really do appreciate you joining me.
Where can people find you if they don't already know?
Well, again, because I'm Persona Non Grata at YouTube, but Rumble live stream every day, and you're on that lineup too, where each show rolls in the next 11 a.m. Eastern, every day of the week.
And, you know, we're still number one there in our time slot.
And it's going on a long time.
By the way, Rumble being more downloaded than YouTube in the app store now.
That's a real change.
Yeah, I really want to see YouTube.
I mean, figuratively, by the way, just to be clear because of all this talk of violence, I want to see YouTube die as a platform, but first I want to see it suffer.