Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke to the massive crowd at a prayer vigil for assassinated conservative commentator Charlie Kirk on Sunday, telling them, among other things, that Kirk had been the reason that he and President Donald Trump had joined forces in the summer of 2024.
Many noted that Kennedy himself already had far too much personal experience with political assassinations. Both his father, Robert F. Kennedy, and his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, were shot while holding or seeking public office. Kennedy said his voice was especially important because of that experience.
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RFK Jr. is a little too familiar with assassinations, which makes him the perfect person to speak to the nation at this critical time.
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Kennedy started with a story about his 17-year-old niece, who was preparing to leave for Europe for college when her mother noticed that she’d packed a Bible in her suitcase. When asked about it, Kennedy said his teenage niece’s response was simple: “I want to live like Charlie Kirk.”
The HHS Secretary went on to tell the crowd that Kirk, whom he’d met more than a decade earlier, had been the driving force behind his joining the Trump campaign.
“I went on his podcast, and I think we approached each other with a lot of trepidation at that time, but, by the end of the podcast, we were soul mates, we were spiritual brothers, and we were friends,” Kennedy said of his first meeting with Kirk before adding, “And over the next couple of years, our friendship blossomed … He ended up being a primary architect of my unification with President Trump.”
Kennedy and the crowd laughed together as he recalled that the sparklers at the TPUSA rally — where Kennedy endorsed Trump — had been Charlie’s idea as well.
“I had a conversation once with Charlie,” Kennedy added. “We were talking about the danger that we were both challenging entrenched interests, and he asked if I was scared of dying. And I said, ‘There [are] a lot worse things than dying.&#8217;”
He noted that Kirk had voiced a desire to “die fighting with our boots on,” Kennedy concluded, “Charlie gave his life so that the rest of us would not have to suffer those fates worse than death. Now it’s our job — he’s no longer there to lead us — to rush in and fill the breach and win the battle for our country, for God, and for our families.”

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RFK: Charlie Kirk Was The ‘Architect’ Of My 2024 Team-Up With Donald Trump

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Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher, a professed atheist, tried to claim that his sense of morality was not in any way based on the Bible — but Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro had other ideas.
Maher sparred with The Daily Wire co-founder and author during a recent broadcast of his show, where the comedian kicked off the conversation by claiming that because the Bible contained &#8220;nonsense and wickedness,&#8221; it must have been written by men rather than written or inspired by God as Jews and Christians believe.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/billmaher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@billmaher</a>: The Bible is full of nonsense and wickedness.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>: But you and I agree a lot on morality, right? Because we were born in a society built by the Bible. You can think you formed your own morality, but you were born morally on third base.
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&#8220;It&#8217;s always such a silly argument, because if God wrote the book, how could there be &#8216;things we don&#8217;t agree with&#8217;?&#8221; Maher asked in mocking tones. &#8220;It&#8217;s either got to be perfect because it&#8217;s written by &#8216;you know who,&#8217; or it&#8217;s just not perfect and it&#8217;s written by people, which it was, obviously, and it&#8217;s full of nonsense and wickedness and things that are everything but virtuous.&#8221;
&#8220;So, Bill, you and I agree on morality, I&#8217;d say like 87%,&#8221; Shapiro said in response.
&#8220;Morality, but not from the Bible,&#8221; Maher protested.
&#8220;I have a question: Why?&#8221; Shapiro challenged Maher.
&#8220;Because it&#8217;s for slavery!&#8221; Maher exclaimed, claiming the Bible advocated slavery. &#8220;Because it&#8217;s okay with slavery —&#8221;
&#8220;No, no, no, no, why do you and I agree on morality like 87.5%?&#8221; Shapiro clarified the question. &#8220;I&#8217;m a religious Jew, you&#8217;re an atheist. Why do we agree on these things?&#8221;
Maher appeared to be still processing the question when Shapiro offered to give his answer to the question, and Maher invited him to go ahead.
&#8220;We probably grew up a few miles from each other in a western society that has several thousand years of Biblical history behind it,&#8221; Shapiro explained. &#8220;And so you can think that you hit that triple and you formed your own morality, but the reality is you were born, morally, on third base.&#8221;
&#8220;No, we —&#8221; Maher attempted to push back, but stalled out as the audience laughed.
Shapiro gave a longer explanation of the origins of morality during a debate with Sam Harris several years earlier, which can be viewed below:
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Bill Maher Says His ‘Morality’ Isn’t Bible-Based. Ben Shapiro Sets Him Straight.

The assassination of conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk prompted at least one major network television host to do what they all should have been doing from the start: follow Kirk&#8217;s example and listen to the people with whom you disagree.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Just four days after Kirk&#8217;s murder — which took place while he was speaking at a Utah Valley University campus event in Orem, Utah — much of the conversation was about him and how everyone would move on in the wake of such a horrific act of political violence. And after four days of comments — on social media and on the air — that essentially blamed Kirk for supporting policies that facilitated his assassination, an unexpected and unlikely respite came from ABC News host Martha Raddatz.
After speaking with Governors Spencer Cox (R-UT) and Jared Polis (D-CO) about the shooting, Raddatz brought in a panel of three young conservatives who had been a part of Kirk&#8217;s campus organization, TPUSA.
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“Charlie Kirk was one of these towering figures of my youth.” <a href="https://twitter.com/MarthaRaddatz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarthaRaddatz</a> sat down with a group of college students to discuss Kirk’s legacy, the shock of his assassination, and the future of conservative youth activism. <a href="https://t.co/2kfzutVElM">https://t.co/2kfzutVElM</a> <a href="https://t.co/fcwrk8W8wA">pic.twitter.com/fcwrk8W8wA</a>
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&#8220;Charlie Kirk&#8217;s influence with young conservatives was far-reaching, galvanizing supporters in person and online like few others,&#8221; Raddatz began. &#8220;But he had plenty of critics who viewed him as using hateful and inflammatory language. In the wake of Kirk&#8217;s death, I sat down with three politically active, conservative college students to understand more about Kirk&#8217;s impact and his complicated legacy.&#8221;
Philip Vayntrub, a student at the College of William &amp; Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, recounted the moment he saw the horrific video of Kirk being shot, calling it absolutely &#8220;sickening.&#8221;
&#8220;Just to hear that something terrible had happened to him was just like, honestly, tragic,&#8221; added Katie Caldwell, a student at James Madison University in Virginia.
Kieran Laffey, a George Washington University student, said that he&#8217;d first learned of Kirk&#8217;s assassination while he was in a history class — and that for the first time in his college career, he&#8217;d had to step out of the classroom to process what he&#8217;d just learned.
&#8220;Charlie Kirk was one of these towering figures of my youth,&#8221; Vayntrub said, recalling videos of Kirk that he&#8217;d watched long before he ever went to college. &#8220;I&#8217;d watch these videos as a kid of him standing up, and being so articulate, but him being also so kind to everyone around him and I said I wanted to emulate that.&#8221;
Caldwell said that she&#8217;d grown up in a conservative home, and saw in Kirk a representation of the family ideals she&#8217;d known as a child. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s kind of why it hurt more,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;As a conservative on campus who&#8217;s outspoken, who like Charlie Kirk likes to speak his mind and stand up for what I think is right, I have to tell you, Martha, I&#8217;m frightened,&#8221; Laffey added, his voice breaking a bit as he added, &#8220;Because people think he deserved to die because he just voiced his opinion.&#8221;
Raddatz referenced remarks from Governor Cox, who said that the younger generation had an &#8220;opportunity&#8221; to come together instead of driving each other further apart, and asked the students to weigh in on that.
Laffey voiced concern, given the current climate: &#8220;I think unity is very imperative, and, look, I want to see people come together. I want to see the First Amendment thrive. I want to see conversations, I think most Americans do. And look, the reality is, I think it&#8217;s going to be hard to come together. Martha, I just don&#8217;t understand how a large population in this country could celebrate something like this.&#8221;
Vayntrub noted the corrosive nature of political violence, declaring, &#8220;The reason I&#8217;m here today is to reject that.&#8221;
He noted that there had been students on his campus cheering and celebrating, and vowed to take a different approach. &#8220;That should be totally condemned. But if we become as bad as them, if we act with just as much hate, then Charlie Kirk died for nothing,&#8221; he said.
When asked who might pick up the mantle and carry on Kirk&#8217;s mission, Laffey said it was incumbent on everyone to &#8220;continue the conversation and stand up for what&#8217;s right.&#8221;
&#8220;What&#8217;s &#8216;right&#8217;?&#8221; Raddatz asked, and Laffey said that continuing to champion free speech — and encourage honest and rational debate &#8220;without violence, without being shut down, without being censored&#8221; — was of the utmost importance.
&#8220;If we as Americans can&#8217;t come together and assemble and have debates on what we believe is right or wrong, we&#8217;re never going to get anywhere, we&#8217;re never going to be able to see the other side, and we&#8217;re going to live in this polarized country and that needs to stop,&#8221; Caldwell said.
Those on the political left routinely call for Americans to have a &#8220;national conversation&#8221; about some topic or another, whether it be gun violence or education reform, and what&#8217;s abundantly clear is that Charlie Kirk was having that conversation – and doing it to great effect. What Raddatz&#8217;s guests made equally clear is that they intend to keep having that conversation.

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Spin Cycle: Charlie Kirk Breaks The Cycle

A man wearing a t-shirt much like the one that was seen in surveillance photos of suspected shooter Tyler Robinson was caught on camera attempting to destroy a memorial for murdered conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
Video circulated on Sunday of the man, identified by authorities as 19-year-old Ryder Corral, as he marched through the makeshift memorial outside the campus organization&#8217;s headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday morning.
Fox News reporter Matt Finn shared some of the details and a short video via X, saying, &#8220;Man tramples on Charlie Kirk memorial at TP USA. He is taken to the ground by onlookers and then arrested. He traveled about 15 yards through the memorial, kicked over flowers, vases and flags and balloons, according to our photog.&#8221;
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Finn followed with an update from the Phoenix Police Department, which identified the suspected vandal as Corral and said that he had been &#8220;detained by witnesses&#8221; on the scene until law enforcement officers arrived and took him into custody.
Police also reported that neither Corral nor any of the witnesses who held him on the scene had sustained any injuries — and that the 19-year-old would face multiple charges, including &#8220;criminal damage and disorderly conduct.&#8221;
Sharing side-by-side photos, Finn later added, &#8220;Looks like the man who was just arrested after trampling Charlie Kirk’s memorial at Turning Point in Phoenix (R) might have been wearing the same type of patriotic shirt that Kirk’s alleged assassin wore on the day of the shooting. (L)&#8221;
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Looks like the man who was just arrested after trampling Charlie Kirk’s memorial at Turning Point in Phoenix (R) might have been wearing the same type of patriotic shirt that Kirk’s alleged assassin wore on the day of the shooting. (L) <a href="https://t.co/TX5QGBjPSR">pic.twitter.com/TX5QGBjPSR</a>
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattFinnFNC/status/1967338142513729709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Vandal Dressed As Suspected Assassin Tramples Charlie Kirk Memorial

New York Times White House Correspondent Peter Baker said that the late conservative commentator Charlie Kirk has become &#8220;a symbol of the toxic culture we&#8217;re in.&#8221;
Baker joined a panel discussion moderated by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, and while he did concede that Kirk was often willing to walk into places where conservatives were not often welcomed, he also suggested that riling people up was a part of Kirk’s “style.”
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NYT&#8217;s Peter Baker: Charlie Kirk Said A Lot Of Things That Riled People Up, &#8220;A Symbol Of The Toxic Culture We&#8217;re In&#8221;
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Goldberg began the discussion by introducing Baker and the rest of his panel, and then jumped right into the conversation.
”Let&#8217;s start at the beginning. Peter, and I want everybody to jump in this, let&#8217;s talk a little bit about Charlie Kirk, who he was and what role he played in the broader Republican ecosystem and the broader political ecosystem.”
”So, Charlie Kirk was a 31-year-old we call an influencer, I guess, these days, provocateur would be another word, he — out there galvanizing young voters, particularly on the right, to support Trump,” Baker began. “He actually was not originally a Trump supporter, but became one of his most —“
“That&#8217;s not unusual,” Goldberg interrupted.
“That&#8217;s not unusual in modern conservative politics,” Baker agreed. “But at age 31, he had become, you know, a pretty significant force in young people&#8217;s politics. And he became a friend not only of Trump, but Donald Trump Jr., J.D. Vance, in particular. J.D. Vance was so moved by this event that he ripped up his schedule, flew out to Utah to personally have the casket brought home on Air Force Two to Arizona.”
Baker went on to note the scope of Kirk’s influence — saying that despite never having run for or held any elected office, the TPUSA founder had certainly made his mark among young voters and Republicans.
“Now, he said a lot of things that got a lot of people riled up, right? And that was part of his style about race, about gender, about affirmative action and Islam and things like that,” Baker continued. “But he also enjoyed going to college campuses like the one he was at. Even though he knew an audience there might include people who didn&#8217;t agree with him, and he liked to mix it up. And he&#8217;s, you know, become in this last few days, I think, a symbol of the of the toxic culture that we&#8217;re in right now, [in] politics.”

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NYT Reporter: Charlie Kirk Became ‘A Symbol Of The Toxic Culture We’re In’

Performer Bob Vylan celebrated the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk during a performance, shouting vile insults from the stage as he referred to the Turning Point USA founder as a &#8220;piece of s***&#8221; and worse.
Vylan — who recently made headlines for chanting &#8220;Death to the IDF&#8221; from the stage at Glastonbury&#8217;s famed music festival — trashed Kirk from a stage adorned with a Palestinian flag, saying he&#8217;d deserved to get shot.
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BOB VYLAN CELEBRATES DEATH OF CHARLIE KIRK
Calls Charlie &#8220;An absolute piece of sh!t&#8221;
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“Coz if you chat sh!t, you get banged.” Followed by a gun gesture. 
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&#8220;I want to dedicate this next one to an absolute piece of s*** of a human being,&#8221; he began, pacing back and forth across the stage.
&#8220;The pronouns: Was/Were,&#8221; he said, prompting cheers from the audience. &#8220;&#8216;Cos if you talk s***, you will get banged. Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk, you piece of s***.&#8221;
He made a shooting gesture with his hand and then proceeded to dance around the stage as the crowd cheered some more.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-consider-criminal-charges-after-rapper-leads-death-to-the-idf-chant-at-festival">Vylan</a> prompted backlash after his Glastonbury performance when he led chants of &#8220;Free, free Palestine&#8221; and &#8220;Death to the IDF&#8221; during the show in June. Police in the United Kingdom even considered formal charges against him at the time.
&#8220;We are aware of the comments made by acts on the West Holts Stage at Glastonbury Festival this afternoon,” Avon and Somerset Police <a href="https://x.com/ASPolice/status/1939025011844485405" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X. “Video evidence will be assessed by officers to determine whether any offences may have been committed that would require a criminal investigation.&#8221;
Festival officials rebuked Vylan in a statement, saying, &#8220;We are appalled by the statements made from the West Holts stage by Bob Vylan yesterday. Their chants very much crossed a line and we are urgently reminding everyone involved in the production of the festival that there is no place at Glastonbury for antisemitism, hate speech or incitement to violence.&#8221;

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Left is simultaneously celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk and also claiming that he was murdered by a right winger. That is a lie. There is now no question that this was leftist LGBT extremist violence. Not the first case. And it’s not going to be the last. Also, in the wake of her husband's death, Erika Kirk delivers one of the most inspiring and beautiful speeches you'll ever hear. Some Republicans call for “unity,” but is that really what we need right now? Is it possible? And as leftists celebrate Charlie's assassination, conservatives are giving them a dose of their own medicine by contacting their employers and getting them fired. Does this make us cancel culture hypocrites? I don't really care if it does, honestly, but it doesn't. I’ll explain why.


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If you’ve heard outrageous claims about Charlie Kirk the mean and hateful bigot, you need to be armed with the truth…right from his own mouth. Today we show how sincerely, and masterfully, Charlie showed love and tolerance as he fought for the soul of the nation through reasoned debate.  When you go to the primary sources–actual video of him speaking–you won’t see the Charlie Kirk that far too many people are posting about on social media.

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