Nick Sortor examines the 8/24/25 assassination of Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA’s 31-year-old founder, killed by a sniper using a Mauser rifle engraved with "transgender" and "anti-fascist"—a weapon found wrapped in a towel with three unspent rounds. Sortor dismisses claims the shooter was a MAGA Republican, instead citing FBI investigations linking him to radical leftist ties, a furry fetish, and a "transitioning" partner, while questioning whether online grooming or school indoctrination fueled the attack. German state media falsely labeled Kirk as "far-right extremism" and justified his murder, prompting Sortor to demand State Department accountability for foreign figures inciting hatred against America. Kirk’s death left a leadership void, with no clear successor able to replicate his influence on youth, while East Palestine residents—once championed by him—now face abandoned struggles after media attention faded. [Automatically generated summary]
America's heart was ripped open at Utah Valley University, where Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old firebrand of Turning Point USA, was gunned down in a cold-blooded sniper attack at 1220 p.m.
Political violence, unfortunately, has been ratcheting up in this country, and I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country.
I think the president's rhetoric often foments it.
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The chair would ask that all members president in the chamber and those in the gallery please rise for a moment of prayer for Charlie Kirk and his family.
While many Americans immediately confronted the elephant in the room and pointed a finger at cowardly color revolution radicalization mind control operations like MSNBC, who before we even knew if Charlie had survived, painted Charlie as an existential threat, gaslighting the country into believing Kirk's rhetoric was responsible for his own death, when in fact it was their own rhetoric that got us here.
A clear display of broadcasted domestic terrorism, which is defined as violent criminal acts committed by individuals and or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.
He's been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups.
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And I always go back to hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.
And I know it's hard to predict the future, Mark, but you can imagine the administration using this as a justification for something.
Obviously, there's a lot of rhetoric that is problematic.
A lot of it is coming from one particular side and from one particular building.
But what can be done?
I fear when this is an escalation already in less than 24 hours of this shooting.
Speaking of this tragedy, is this a moment for your party to reflect on political violence?
Is it a moment for us to think about the responsibility of our political leaders and their voices and what it does to the masses as they get lost in misinformation, disinformation that turns in and spills into political violence?
Only people inclined to consume conservative media.
Are now, I think, upward of 50% say that if necessary, violence is okay.
You've only got the conduct on one of the two sides.
The solution, Mr. President, reinstate the Smith-Munn Act and enforce it.
Obama's army of propagandists will fall.
The shooter still remains at large after the initial suspect who bizarrely declared, shoot me, was released.
Although authorities claim to have held another suspect, were they just decoys to allow the real shooter to flee?
And who is this person being arrested wearing black pants while a rifle is clearly confiscated?
Stephen Crowder received an email from an ATF officer detailing a recovered older imported Mauser 30 Otta 6 bolt action rifle wrapped in a towel in a nearby wooded area along the suspect's escape route containing a spent cartridge and three unspent rounds engraved with transgender and anti-fascist messages.
I have heard from so many people from all walks of life these past several days, people that had never heard of Charlie before.
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Even my mother, my own mother texting me, a lifelong Democrat growing up, telling me how Charlie had touched her, her life over just the past few days of listening to his teachings, making her want to go back to church and reconnect with God.
And, you know, the videos that we've seen circulating, absolutely brutal.
You know, we see this fearless voice of conservatism, the guy that built Turning Point USA from the ground up, taken out in cold blood in front of 3,000 college students, 3,000 college students that'll be scarred for life over this, overseeing this in person.
But, you know, it's a tragedy, yes, but it's also, it's a wake-up call for every patriot out there.
And for those thinking that everyone's just going to move on from this in a few days, think again.
This ain't business as usual.
You have so many people that looked up to this guy.
You had the president of the United States getting emotional over losing Charlie Kirk.
Absolutely incredible impact that this guy had at 31 years old.
Our country is genuinely at a crossroads, guys.
And Charlie's death is just a flashpoint that's igniting a fire that we haven't seen in generations.
I don't know if you've seen these videos and the pictures coming out already from this weekend.
Because he dared to speak against the BS globalist narrative that we've been fighting for so many years, and he was effective at it.
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He called out the woke agenda, open borders, the attacks on the Second Amendment, all the illegals pouring into the country that are replacing Americans and that Joe Biden was trying to use to replace you guys as voters, all of us as voters.
There was a professor down at Florida Atlantic University.
Her name, Karen Leader, which is such a perfect fitting name.
Aaron Leader, placed on administrative leave for celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.
The leftists think that they've gotten their power back now, but we ain't going to let it happen.
And I'll dive deeper into that as the show goes on here.
And we'll also talk about his killer, this guy who I really hesitate to name that everybody, all the leftists tried to say, oh, he's just a, he's a MAGA Republican.
He's a MAGA conservative.
I'm sorry, but I don't know any MAGA conservatives that are banging trans dudes.
His boyfriend is a guy that pretending to be a woman and is also a furry.
There have been reports of people with license points from out of state that was weirding out neighbors because they kept coming in and out of the shooter's house over the past two weeks.
We got to dig into that, not let the feds cover it up as they typically would.
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Luckily, we know a hell of a lot more about this guy in the first two days than we know about the guy that shot Trump and Butler.
Are we ever going to find out what happened in Butler?
I don't know.
We'll try.
But I feel like there's a lot of things they don't want us to know.
And we're all on the same page about that.
And then, of course, Jasmine Crockett back on Fox News this morning, or not on Fox, of course, of course not on Fox.
On CNN, I believe.
Amping up the violent rhetoric again, comparing government officials to slave patrols, and Democrats were saying that the rhetoric isn't violent.
But we're going to get much deeper into these stories as the show goes on.
We'll talk about the killer, whether or not there was more than one person involved, the possibilities there.
We'll talk about the rhetoric that led to this.
And, you know, we're going to talk about some of the beautiful things as well that have come out of this, the positive things, such as thousands and tens of thousands of people across the world coming together to honor Charlie Kirk, coming out of the woodwork to do so.
And our first guest that we're going to have on right after the break here, Kevin Smith, hosted one of these vigils yesterday in Long Island.
Thousands of people showed up.
I've never seen anything like it, especially in New York.
But what was different about this, there were so many young people at this thing, man.
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Like, and I'm not talking like turning point age, you know, 19, 20, 20, 21.
People brought their 12-year-olds and their 13-year-olds, and they came up to me afterwards crying because of how much they loved Charlie Kirk and how much it meant to them.
And they would watch him on TikTok and they'd watch him on all their, all the, all the new apps all the kids are using.
But, you know, it was, it was just so much love.
And this, you know, obviously was put together in about 40 hours.
I mean, I think that there is going to be a groundswell of people wanting to come out, wanting to start turning point chapters, wanting to get involved, wanting to know as much as Charlie knew.
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You know, what was so great about him was that he knew his stuff and he was well versed in everything.
And when I spoke to the kids last night, I told them, if you want to honor Charlie, then do the hard work that he did.
Know your facts, get involved and whatnot.
And to those kids who had to witness it, you know, I feel for them.
And, you know, unfortunately, we all saw the images on social media.
We all saw the videos that it's going to live on forever.
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You know, I imagine it's much the same way as, you know, the Kennedy kids have to, you know, they can Google the moment that their father was killed or their uncle was killed.
Not many people get, have to live through that.
So I don't know what's going to happen with them.
I hope that they find grace and I hope that they find closure.
But more than that, I hope they find motivation.
I hope seeing this happen lets them know that, you know, as they say, you know, next man up, you know, we're ready to take the mantle that Charlie left behind.
And I hope the kids there do the same.
Yeah.
And Kevin, there have been some names floated as to who could possibly take the mantle.
And someone who has volunteered themselves was none other than Ben Shapiro.
And I mean, look, in terms of popularity, you know, Ben has been probably as famous as Charlie, but I think that he's severely missing his, well, he severely missed his moment.
If this was 2015, 2016, 2017, you know, with the Ben Shapiro destroys videos and took over the internet, I think he might have had a shot.
But I think the only people that are, I think the only person that can fill Charlie's shoes is all of us, all of us doing our part collectively.
You know, I can't go to UCLA campus, but I can go to St. John's and Queens.
I can go to Hofshra on Long Island.
But if you're in LA, go to UCLA.
Go to USC.
Go to your local colleges and just put up a table, just like Charlie would have done.
Yeah.
And that's one of the things that I have thought about the most this week has been who?
Who do we replace?
There's nobody that comes to mind.
And I know it's like cliche.
You know, everybody says this like every time.
I genuinely don't know who can be Charlie Kirk because it was the delivery, his ability to have a conversation with somebody without, you know, being whatever you want to say, nasty to them or something.
He could actually have that dialogue and actually convince people on the spot that they were wrong.
You'd see these people buckle in real time and Charlie would just let them down easy and the entire audience would see that.
And I think that's why he was so effective doing so.
And genuinely, I guess that's going to be the big thing to point out.
Nobody knows who played shooting guard on the Bulls after Jordan.
Nobody knows who played shortstaff for the Yankees after being here.
You know, whoever is going to fill those shoes next, it's going to be difficult, no matter how good, no matter how good you may be or how good you think you are.
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So it's going to be on all Kevin Smith, host of Loud Majority Live, really appreciate you coming on, sir.
And great job with that vigil yesterday.
Anytime, buddy.
Thank you so much.
We'll be right back talking about the State Department revoking visas for people celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.
We're back.
All right, guys.
Look, one of the biggest things that we've focused on over the past week are the people that have been the U.S. politicians, the Democrats, and their, you know, their legacy media partners having like some of the worst takes we have ever heard on TV.
You'd think that this came off of like a like Saturday Night Live or something, but it didn't.
Roll clip one for me and then I'll see you on the other side.
But following up what was just said, he's been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups.
And I always go back to hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.
This guy had, I mean, the king of bad take, same guy that said, oh, well, maybe he wasn't assassinated.
Maybe it was somebody in the audience celebrating and their gun went off.
But it's one thing when it's an American saying that kind of thing.
It's another thing when you have foreigners coming into our country saying really even worse things, justifying the murder of Charlie Kirk, an American hero.
So I wanted to bring in somebody that brought this to my attention, Naomi Zeit, a German political commentator.
Naomi, well, first off, I want to thank you for coming on, but I also want to roll this clip of the man who you guys, who your state media, German state media, sent to the United States to cover our politics.
And basically, you grow up in Germany knowing that if you want to be somewhat educated, then you have to watch the state legacy media.
There's a specific channel for it.
There is no competition for it.
You don't have Fox News, CNN, MSNBC.
You just have this stuff.
And then this guy in particular, he has so much power because he is the US correspondent for the German legacy media.
And this means that even before the Trump administration, he has been there from the very beginning and he brainwashes millions of Germans all the time about what's going on in America.
And I'm glad that this is being brought to your attention now because this has been going on for such a long time.
During the Biden administration, he said that Biden was mentally, quote, top fit.
And then since President Trump came into office, he announced from the very beginning that now we will see America turning into the most authoritarian country that it's ever been in 250 years.
He even compared Trump to literally Hitler.
There are clips of this.
And then now finally, Americans are waking up to this reality of who's actually in their country because he's sitting in Washington, D.C. with his probably journalism visa, completely carefree and so disrespectful towards the American government.
He even wrote an entire book about just Donald Trump called Deadline.
And the subtitle of it is Why Donald Trump is a threat to the democracy and how he endangers all of us.
And we are paying taxes for this.
This is not possible to imagine for Americans how terrible the tyranny on free speech is in Germany.
And then the clip that you just showed, the worst part about this is that this is the second clip of him saying this.
He originally said it on a massive German TV show, political show, Marcus Lund's, where he said these exact statements about Charlie Kirk.
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And then he doubled down in the second clip that you just showed.
So if he comes back now and apologizes and said that he was taken out of context, that's clearly not true because he fully agrees with what he said in the initial clip.
And now already we have seen in German news, they have reported this, that this legacy media outlet, ZDF is what it's called.
They already made a statement saying that he didn't quite mean it like that.
And he should have clarified that this is not exactly what Charlie Kirk said.
No, we don't accept your apology because you have been spewing this exact stuff for many, many months, even years.
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And it's very clear that you have negative intentions towards the American government.
And they want to brainwash our people so that we feel some sort of enemy territory over there in the United States.
And just to provide a counterexample for you, under the Biden administration, our former interior minister, Nancy Faser, actually went to the Department of Homeland Security in America and told them that the chief editor of a German alternative media outlet, Deutsche Prue, that he is allegedly a threat to democracy.
And so he was prevented from traveling to the United States of America.
Because he publicly criticized the tyranny against free speech heroes in Germany.
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And he was sentenced to seven months' probation because he posted a meme saying that the former interior minister who went to the Department of Homeland Security, that she hates free speech.
So if that's not tyranny, then I don't know what is.
And then you know, it seems like this guy, if this guy were to be in Germany, he were to say something similar against a German politician, left-wing German politician, he'd probably be thrown in jail.
Yeah, and he comes over here and thinks that he can just, you know, talk a bunch of smack about and why.
I mean, straight up lie about American patriots like Charlie Kirk over here.
And so Christopher Landau, the deputy secretary of state, I don't know if you guys have that tweet, if you can put it up on the screen, but I'll read it regardless.
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That in light of yesterday's horrific assassination of a leading political figure, I want to underscore that foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country.
I've been disgusted to see some on social media praising, rationalizing, or making light of the event and have directed our consular officials to undertake appropriate action.
And he asked people to tag him and the State Department in these posts.
And this is how he's been responding.
I mean, I got a kick out of this this morning, seeing the way that he's been replying to some of these tweets, like the tweet that you made about your German friend that needs to be sent back home.
I don't know if we have that tweet or not, the reply, regardless, putting up a State Department bat signal.
And I actually was able to get a comment from them that they are reviewing these cases and they are serious about removing these people from our country.
I mean, these are people that fundamentally hate the United States of America.
For some reason, we let them in here and influence people worldwide from the White House.
I mean, I believe he does he have White House access?
Does this guy spend time in the White House?
I'm sure he does.
It would be very easy for him, for sure, because he is responsible for the entire legacy media in Germany and German's views on American politics specifically.
And I think we need to remember that those are the people who actually instigate these kinds of attacks.
I mean, of course, there are the radical leftists, but they would probably not have the kind of courage and the kind of organized movement if it wasn't for the legacy media who tell them that this is justified, that these views that they have are totally fine, not only fine, but they are the mainstream.
And right after this, we're going to get deeper into the trans lover that shot Charlie Kirk.
All right.
You know, after the vigils are over and the memorials, you know, start winding down and people go about their ways.
We're still going to have to keep on top of this story about who the killer was, who they knew, who they could have potentially been working with.
Because at this point, we know, I mean, we haven't seen the proof yet.
And we don't know, we haven't been told everything that the FBI knows, especially.
But it's pretty obvious that this guy didn't just go and do this alone with nobody knowing about it and then not having anybody giving them aid and comfort after the job was done.
We've seen Discord logs now from his friends, his degenerate friends.
And we know that the FBI, I confirmed personally with FBI officials yesterday that they are looking into the possibility of co-conspirators here.
And we can't forget about the fact that you had people like John Solomon, who has like really high-level contacts at the White House.
They pretty much use him to put stories out.
And he even mentioned it.
He mentioned the fact that there could be a foreign intelligence connection here based on his sources.
So we've definitely got to keep digging on this, not let it go away, not stop talking about the shooter, not let it go to the wayside like the guy that shot Trump and Butler.
But one of the things that we have confirmed at this point is that A, he was a LGBT barbecue, whatever it is, and had a trans lover, a guy that was quote unquote transitioning into a woman.
And it's not just us saying that.
It's not just the government saying that.
It's not the FBI saying that.
It's also his neighbors.
Roll that clip.
There's some published reports out there that this individual, the roommate, may have been transitioned in.
Did that correlate with what you saw?
Yeah, definitely.
Okay.
So he was going to have a permission to be determined for.
Yeah, yeah.
And I think we've getting ready for that.
What way do you think he's?
I remember them talking about a doctor's appointment.
It was about Two weeks ago, I would say.
And they were kissing.
Yeah.
Where did you see them kissing?
Just coming out.
I was riding with my bike, so I didn't see the whole thing, but yeah.
I saw them.
And when did you hear them talking about display?
I would say about the same time that they came out.
So that one time, yeah.
Where were you standing?
I was just riding by here.
And you're able to hear snippets of their conversation.
Yeah.
Yep.
But you were sure that they were a couple, but you only seen them together once.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, the way, I mean, random guys don't go fans and definitely don't kiss.
So I would have tried to stop him if I knew it with him like before.
I definitely, I definitely do not like the fact that he was living close to me.
It was covered with police tape.
A ton of police cars.
We had a guy sitting with the sniper.
The left when they tried to spin this as, oh, well, this guy was actually a MAGA Republican.
Again, I don't know any MAGA Republicans that are banging dudes that think they're women, especially ones that dress up like animals as some sort of fetish.
If you guys know what that story is, Brian Laundry, the killer's parents, like literally let him commit suicide to get away from police.
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You know, so that the father brought him, turned him in, and got the minister involved to make sure that his son didn't kill himself and actually made it to authorities and face accountability.
So the question is: when did the radicalization start?
We need to know all this stuff because it takes a lot to get an individual that is seemingly intelligent, had good grades, just to actually was on a full ride scholarship, I believe, to Utah State University.
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Dropped out for whatever reason after the first year and moved to a community college.
That's, or that they were, that it was a good thing that we went over and killed the Nazis and such and exterminated them all.
So if you are convincing people and indoctrinating them to believe that conservative media figures here like Charlie Kirk are Nazis and fascists, you're justifying to yourself, oh, yeah, well, they should be dead.
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And I'll go ahead and do it and I'll be a hero for it.
I don't know where, like, how the leap gets to that point, though, where you genuinely start believing that they are Nazis and fascists.
So something else happened.
I don't fully believe that it was just rhetoric alone that made this guy go out and kill Charlie Kirk.
There had to be something else.
Was he groomed to do it?
So many unanswered questions.
We need transparency from years and years ago to see the changes in this kid's life, to figure out how he got to this point.
You see lots and lots of kids now celebrating it on TikTok, kids, grown adults even, celebrating it on TikTok.
Honestly, I think every sort of case of that should be investigated at this point.
If that's what it's going to take.
And we'll be following this up with a lot more next week.
And so I'm going to leave that be for a little bit and not lead you guys astray down some path.
So what I want to do here is go back a little bit to East Palestine, Ohio.
The first time I ever talked to Charlie Kirk to finish out the show here, he brought me on the show, brought light to the story, and helped the people of East Palestine.
I'm going to, I want to roll this clip and just let you guys hear how concerned he was for everyday Americans, unlike practically every other person on TV or on the radio with a large audience.
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There just weren't many of them that genuinely cared and wanted to bring light to this story, like Charlie Kirk.
Violent or anything like that.
And Norfolk Southern knows this.
So they don't want to talk.
They're trying to be as opaque as possible.
And some people here, when it comes to that $1,000, this is not a tremendously wealthy town.
They lost one of their largest employers.
They were a big ceramics manufacturer here.
And once they lost that, a lot of people dropped down into poverty.
And so $1,000, Norfolk Southern is expecting them to take something like that just so they can actually survive because these people can't leave.
They can't leave.
And so they're forced to stay here.
They can't go get a hotel by themselves.
If they're going to run out of money, then they got to take that $1,000.
They're forced to.
So since people are now being asked to sign these waivers, and I know that there are class action lawsuits that are starting to pile up, no one should sign anything without a lawyer present.
But these people are now basically going to have to live in a rather risky containment zone.
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And so, I mean, look, without getting too deep into the speculation of the specifics of what this could mean, I mean, are you feeling on the ground that there has been a mass government mobilization to look after the welfare of the people of East Palestine?
Not in the slightest, Charlie.
The only time I ever saw anybody from the EPA here was yesterday.
And I think that had to do with the fact that there were a lot of cameras here yesterday.
There were a lot of local news outlets that came here just to follow the EPA administrator and the two senators.
But as soon as they were gone, all the media left.
I have not seen a single camera here today, right?
And so that's part of what I was saying earlier: that once these guys leave, once the media is out, then everybody else is out.
And I definitely don't expect the federal government to step in after all the media leaves.
What incentive do they have at this point?
So, you know, they're going to leave it to Norfolk Southern.