Judging Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano - Max Blumenthal : Charlie Kirk & The MAGA Civil War! The Deep State in Control

Oct. 31, 2025 - Judging Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano

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Max Blumenthal : Charlie Kirk & The MAGA Civil War! The Deep State in Control

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	Let's get to the issue at hand.
	Who is Joe Kent and why is the FBI afraid of him?
	Well, Joe Kent was a CIA field operative who was active in Syria.
	His wife was killed in Syria by ISIS suicide bomber after Trump's attempt to remove U.S. forces from northeastern Syria was sabotaged by U.S. military leadership.
	He's someone who has some anti-war tendencies, particularly in the Middle East, ran for Congress in an area outside of Portland and was defeated by a kind of neoconservative Democrat.
	It really felt like a kind of U.S. intelligence-oriented Democrat who was liberal on social issues and pro-war where it counted, had a massive infusion of money, Marie Glussenkamp.
	And she's voting for like every war now and every aid package to Israel.
	Joe Kent was brought into the U.S. counterterrorism center under the watch of Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence against the objections of many neoconservative Democrats.
	And he has been pretty much kept out in the wilderness, as far as I understand, along with Tulsi Gabbard by these figures in Trump's inner circle, especially Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles.
	And now Joe Kent has fallen under attack from the FBI director, Cash Patel, someone who has pledged total fealty to Israel during his nomination as FBI director and in a series of interviews,
	because Joe Kent was seeking more transparency on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, specifically on whether there could have been other accomplices, other shooters, and the involvement of foreign governments.
	And we can imagine which foreign governments might frighten FBI leadership and the Trump administration itself, which a particular foreign government that Donald Trump himself appears frightened of.
	That foreign government would be the one whose head twice publicly denied that his government had anything to do with the murder of Charlie Kirk.
	Do we know exactly what trail Kent's investigators are on and what evidence they have and why the FBI is so animated about this that somebody with intel experience would be looking at their records?
	What are they afraid he's going to find?
	Well, first, it's a turf battle.
	Patel is trying to discredit Joe Kent, painting him as a conspiracy theorist, painting the forces around Joe Kent that do not trust the official story or the way that the FBI has handled this investigation.
	They're trying to discredit them before they can obtain anything that might undercut the official theory.
	The official theory is unproven, but the official theory has enormous political gravity because if Tyler Robinson can be found guilty as the lone shooter who shot Charlie Kirk to impress his furry friends because Charlie Kirk made anti-trans comments, then it justifies a massive security state crackdown on the left.
	It was sort of the GOP playbook and Netanyahu's playbook, by the way, to paint Tyler Robinson as an Antifa leftist who might even be somehow connected to Muslims in Palestine to just use him as the justification for a new COINTELPR.
	And as soon as Joe Kent starts moving in and questioning that, it undercuts the momentum to crush.
	the left, to crush protest, to crush dissent.
	And that's why the, I assume it's Cash Patel himself, but also forces around him told the New York Times when they reported this that they believe that Joe Kent's attempt for greater transparency is complicating the prosecution of Tyler Robinson.
	In other words, it's complicating their attempt to achieve a desired political result by pinning the blame entirely on him when I guarantee you, if you put a poll to the majority of Republican voters, but especially younger supporters of Donald Trump, they will not believe the official story at all.
	And so I think if you want to make that prosecution legitimate and credible among your base, then you want more transparency, but they're freezing Joe Kent out because they seem to be afraid of something.
	Now, he has a team of investigators, some of whom are ex-FBI agents, others ex-other agents in the federal government.
	Has his investigation been shut down or is he still pursuing it?
	I don't know.
	Another reason they would want to shut it down, though, is Miriam Adelson, Ike Perlmutter, all these pro-Israel Zionist warlord donors.
	They don't want anyone poking around for some kind of Israeli tie there.
	They want to shut this down before it even starts.
	And so you want them to fund your successor, J.D. Vance, his campaign.
	J.D. Vance just described Miriam Adelson as a friend at a TPUSA event.
	Then you got to just cut this off.
	You can't have them not even whether or not Joe Kent actually obtains anything usable or actionable.
	You can't have figures in your administration looking for a potential Israeli angle.
	The Daily Beast headline, you've probably seen this.
	Keystone Cash, that's Cash Patel, starts MAGA civil war over wild conspiracy claims.
	That's a classic Daily Beast headline.
	The MA civil war has been raging for months and months.
	I think October 7th ignited the MAGA civil war because there was always going to be an element that existed in the shadows of Pat Buchanan within MAGA that was suspicious of Israel's role and actually disgusted with its role in U.S. politics.
	And they're now stronger than ever, as you can see from J.D. Vance at his latest event in Mississippi on the TPUSA tour, getting asked about Miriam Adelson's influence, getting asked about Trump's conflicts of interest.
	As you see from Marjorie Taylor Green's comments about Israel shattering the ceasefire and slaughtering over 100 civilians in a day, Israel just attacked Khan Yunus today twice.
	J.D. Vance said, well, Trump is applying leverage.
	Where's the leverage?
	He's getting criticized from within MAGA on these very core issues.
	So the fight over who killed Charlie Kirk is really a proxy for these deeper issues.
	And it's astonishing that what we keep learning about the comments Charlie Kirk made in his final days, including text messages, which Candace Owens surfaced to his colleagues about how disgusted he was being bossed around by Zionist billionaire donors like Robert Shillman and how he was ready to, as he said, leave the pro-Israel cause after this is all over.
	That's unacceptable.
	to his donors.
	That's unacceptable to the people around him at TPUSA running this gigantic $80 million a year money-making operation.
	Some could even call it a money laundering operation.
	The money is going to stop coming in from all these billionaires because you're going to leave the cause.
	You can't do that.
	Why did Netanyahu twice deny that Israeli agents were in any way responsible for Kirk's murder?
	Because so many people believe they were.
	And I never said there was evidence for it.
	I never said it.
	I just reported on the reality of Charlie Kirk's final days and his misgivings about having been so supportive of Israel as he came under what he called explicitly moral blackmail from big Zionist donors to TPUSA.
	So everybody began to believe it.
	And why wouldn't they believe it, considering that Israel runs a global assassination machine that kills anyone perceived as a threat?
	Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen said in a recent interview in English that Israel has infiltrated cell phone devices and other communication devices in every country in the world.
	They've not only infiltrated them, they've tampered with them as they did with the pagers that were turned into exploding terror devices in Lebanon.
	I mean, they're openly boasting about it.
	So why wouldn't people have these suspicions?
	Let me get this straight.
	The FBI is afraid to have a team of professional investigators conduct a companion investigation to theirs to see if Robinson was a Patsy for or otherwise influenced by a foreign government.
	They're not interested in the American public.
	The FBI is not interested in the American public knowing an answer to that.
	Yes, and this is the deep state that Donald Trump's claimed to campaign against.
	The deep states in control.
	The civilian authorities who are U.S. intelligence veterans, FBI veterans who are in a civilian, acting in a civilian capacity are not allowed in the room.
	They're being frozen out.
	As they were, by the way, during the run-up to the U.S. bombing of Iran on Israel's behalf.
	It's like the same thing.

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