Once more, the American public finds itself bewildered, reminiscent of the confusion that followed the JFK assassination and the 9/11 attacks.
As a small but vocal group of Kirk supporters question the official account surrounding Charlie Kirk’s assassination, newly leaked documents reveal the MAGA leader’s mindset just days before his sudden death.
Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the conservative organization founded by the late Charlie Kirk, teeters on the edge of turmoil amid ongoing controversies over provocative statements Kirk made shortly before he was killed.
Several of Kirk’s close associates, including the well-known podcaster Candace Owens—who recently gained attention for asserting that Brigitte Macron was born male—believe that Kirk became a target because of anti-Israeli remarks he made just two days prior to his assassination.
According to Owens reported, Kirk vented in a private nine-person group chat—including Josh Hammer, a Jewish-American contributor and editor at large for Newsweek—that a Jewish benefactor had pulled a $2 million annual donation after Kirk refused to disinvite Carlson from the upcoming AmericaFest event.
“Just lost another huge Jewish donor,” Kirk lamented. “$2 million a year because we won’t cancel Tucker. I’m thinking of inviting Candace.”
He added, “Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes. I cannot and will not be bullied like this.”
Kirk concluded: ‘Leaving me no choice but to leave the pro Israel cause.’
Following the right-wing activist’s assassination during a public speaking engagement at Utah Valley University on September 10, Owens pointed out the suspicious silence from Hammer regarding Kirk’s anti-Israeli comments, while also highlighting a seemingly unrelated tweet from Hammer referencing public executions just one day before Kirk was killed.
“I knew nothing about Josh Hammer’s random tweet about public executions the night before Charlie was publicly executed. In what context does that tweet make sense? Literally WTF,” Owens tweeted on X.
When independent journalist Yashar Ali suggested Hammer’s tweet was about the brutal subway murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zartutska in North Carolina, Owens dismissed the claim.
“There is not a single shred of proof that you can produce that Josh Hammer was referring to Iryna. Not one. Not even his own public statements about Iryna’s murder. There was no new information about her murder that day so it wasn’t even trending,” Owens declared. “You are just covering for him and it won’t work.”
In essence, Owens implied that Hammer and others likely had prior knowledge of Kirk’s impending death.
Hammer responded with a lengthy statement denouncing Owens and shared the final messages exchanged with Kirk.
“I have been extremely reluctant to post screenshots from a murdered friend. It feels icky. I don’t like. But while I was offline this week for a holiday, a high-profile, deeply unwell lunatic [here Hammer is speaking about Owens] used screenshots of an intimate group chat I was in with Charlie Kirk and some others to impugn my character in the worst way and allege I somehow had foreknowledge (or worse) of my own friend’s horrific assassination,” he began.
Hammer insisted Kirk was merely “sarcastically blowing off steam” about Jewish donors withdrawing their funds and called the accusation that Kirk was “turning” against the Jewish community “an egregious lie.”
“Charlie was passionate about fighting the mind virus of conspiratorial Jew-hatred—something he made clear over and over and over again… Emotions can run high at times, but Charlie Kirk remained a true friend of the Jewish people and the Jewish state to the very end.”
Meanwhile, conspiracy theories persist regarding Charlie Kirk’s death, a figure who many believe was destined to become a prominent American politician, possibly even president. Would the powerful Israeli Lobby tolerate such a man reaching a position of major influence?
Regardless, a growing faction argues that Tyler Robinson, 22, the accused assassin, was a scapegoat similar to Lee Harvey Oswald in the JFK case. Several analysts have pointed out, based on video and photographic proof, that Robinson was never seen holding the four-foot-long Mauser 98 bolt action rifle. Furthermore, the time reported to disassemble the bulky weapon post-shooting seems impossible.
Additionally, an elderly man present during the shooting created a distraction that hindered police efforts to locate the true perpetrator.
As Veterans Today has reported: “In the shocking first moments of the gunshot that ended Charlie’s young life, a man, George Zinn, suddenly and strangely stepped forward and began screaming like a maniac, ‘Shoot me, shoot me,’ so much so that many immediately assumed he was the assassin of the activist close to Donald Trump.
“Zinn, however, had a different role, he was almost certainly a diversion, a smokescreen.”
Once again, the American public is left puzzled, as they were after the JFK assassination and 9/11. Few major tragedies in contemporary America go without some measure of justified doubt and speculation. It is certain that questions will endure regarding the death of Charlie Kirk for many years ahead.