Critical Information We Know So Far…

  • Trump states on Truth Social that Charlie Kirk has died. 
  • A suspect in the case was detained and released following an interrogation
  • Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck earlier this afternoon at a Turning Point event at Utah Valley University.
  • He was shot from about 200 yards away, according to a Spokeswoman for Utah Valley University
  • Someone was seen on the roof of building
  • Trump addresses the nation, calls Kirk assassination “dark moment,” promises to dismantle radical leftist groups. 

President Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office on the senseless political assassination of Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point event at Utah Valley University, calling it a “dark moment for America.”

Trump called Kirk a “martyr for truth” and vowed to crack down on the radical left…

The president continued:

My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country.

I am filled with grief and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah. Charlie inspired millions, tonight all who knew him and loved him are united in shock and horror.

From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a healthcare executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and three others. Radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives.

Tonight, I ask all Americans to commit themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived and died, the values of free speech, citizenship, the rule of law.

His legacy will live on for countless generations to come. Today, because of this heinous act, Charlie’s voice has become bigger and grander than ever before, and it’s not even close. May God bless his memory. May God watch over his family.

Our takeaway is that the radical left, which has been funding chaos through dark-money NGOs and other groups, is about to get a major wake-up call from the Trump administration. A move to counter these rogue NGOs could be just one executive order away. Stay tuned.

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Update (2015ET): 90 minutes after FBI Director Kash Patel announced that a suspect in the Charlie Kirk assassination was in custody, the suspect was released and the shooter remains at large. 

Update (1830ET): FBI Director Kash Patel announced moments ago that “The subject for the horrific shooting today that took the life of Charlie Kirk is now in custody” (we assume he means ‘suspect’). 

Meanwhile, someone can be seen running along a rooftop across from where Kirk was shot. 

Comments from Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R):

Update (1640ET): President Trump writes on Truth Social that Charlie Kirk has died. 

Kirk made a name for himself about winning debates in “proper democratic fashion” … 

Civil terrorism expert Jason Curtis Anderson of One City Rising states: 

The assassination of Charlie Kirk marks a dangerous escalation in America’s culture war—where the battle of ideas is now escalating into political violence against those who run organizations devoted to debate and civil discourse. Very few people grasp the gravity of this moment . Incidents like this don’t exist in isolation; they risk triggering a chain of events that can further destabilize the country.

Whether it’s the anti-ICE movement, pro-Palestinian agitators, anarchist networks, or NGO-backed permanent protest groups like Indivisible, we are watching the rise of something new and deeply alarming. As Tal Fortgang wrote in City Journal, America is entering a new era of civil terrorism—where the goal is no longer peaceful protest, but intimidation, silencing, and destabilization of our democratic order. 

Like us, many are struggling to find the words to discuss this but @Merovingianus offered some useful insight:

Among all the justifiable outrage over the years, Charlie Kirk has consistently been one the calmest and most polite among us.

Someone shot him and the entire scope of the Left is celebrating.

If we do not act accordingly we might as well surrender now.

I’ve seen several people saying something along the lines of “I don’t know why this is affecting me so personally.” 

Its because in Charlie you see yourself, the most polite version of yourself, the most articulate, the most charitable to your enemies. And even that wouldn’t be enough to save you from them.

It is because you are seeing that the marketplace of ideas you grew up believing as sacred is now a war zone that will get you killed and you’re struggling to reconcile the world you live in with the world you grew up in.

You are struggling to comprehend and incorporate the irrefutable evidence that this political divide isn’t one solved by polite exchange of ideas and that we are in a nation at war with itself.

RIP Charlie. 

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