Donald Trump Is Exploiting Charlie Kirk’s Death - To Carry Out a Political Purge

Donald Trump Is Exploiting Charlie Kirk’s Death - To Carry Out a Political Purge

Sept. 18, 2025

The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel

Max Blumenthal, editor of The Grayzone, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to analyze the implications of the assassination. He also details his latest article, which reveals exclusive background information on Charlie Kirk’s flailing relationship with Israel and tensions within the Trump administration.

Kirk’s refusal to accept Zionist financial contributions as well as his deepening disconnection from Israel “left him feeling cold and anxious and even in the words of the friend, frightened,” Blumenthal tells Hedges.

And Netanyahu believes that he has this short window of time to basically carry out regime change in Iran. It would have been catastrophic. And I also learned from multiple sources that Charlie Kirk actually took it upon himself personally to go to the White House and personally lobby Trump against bombing Iran back in June and that he was shut down. Trump angrily rebuked him because Trump is simply afraid.

He’s completely controlled at this point by Netanyahu. So am I saying that Israel killed Charlie Kirk? How would I know that? There’s no evidence for that. But how am I going to not report this fascinating background about where the conservative movement and the Republican Party itself are going on the question of Israel when I’m learning all of this after his death.

And there are so many unusual aspects to the investigation, so many mishaps by the FBI and such strange behavior by the Israeli government and Netanyahu himself since Charlie Kirk’s killing that it has fueled speculation by millions of people online that there may have been an Israeli role.

I mean, why wouldn’t they speculate when Israel seems to assassinate everyone that defies it in its own region and has even dispatched thousands of pagers to low level Hezbollah members and their families to assassinate them?

https://www.unz.com/aanglin/israel-charlie-kirk-and-the-weaponization-of-murder-w-max-blumenthal/

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