Charlie Kirk feared pro-Israeli forces before assassination: Report

Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), had been frightened by the pro-Israeli forces before his assassination.

Kirk, 31, a staunch supporter of US President Donald Trump, was shot and killed on Wednesday at Utah Valley University during an outdoor “Prove Me Wrong” debate attended by roughly 3,000 people.

The Grayzone reported on Friday that Kirk had refused to accept money from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was frightened of reprisal by pro-Israel forces before his assassination.

The media outlet cited a Trump insider and longtime friend of Kirk who told The Grayzone how the late conservative leader’s turning point on Israeli influence in the US government had triggered a private backlash from Netanyahu’s allies against him.

Kirk’s longtime friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity also over fear of reprisal, said the backlash had left the avid pro-Trump loyalist both angry and fearful, adding that the fear had spread within the Trump administration after an apparent Israeli spying operation was uncovered by intelligence sources.

According to Kirk’s longtime friend, earlier this year the late influencer had not accepted a massive new infusion of money by Netanyahu into his TPUSA organization.

Kirk believed Netanyahu was trying to scare him into silence as he began to publicly question Israel’s overwhelming power inside the US government.

The source told The Grayzone that Kirk had come to hate the “bully” Netanyahu in the past weeks.

Kirk was disgusted by the amount of influence wielded by the Israeli regime’s leader inside the Trump administration.

Netanyahu sought to personally dictate the president’s decisions and weaponized Israeli assets like billionaire donor Miriam Adelson to keep the White House firmly under the Zionists’ thumb, it said, citing Kirk’s friend, who also enjoyed access to Trump and his inner circle.

Kirk had even warned Trump of the Israeli influence last June when he advised the president against bombing Iran for Tel Aviv’s sake. “Charlie was the only person who did that,” the source said, recalling how Trump “barked at him” in response, and angrily ended the discussion.

The unnamed source who talked to The Grayzone pointed out that Kirk had reached the conclusion that Trump had fallen under the control of the Israeli regime and was being led by Tel Aviv into a series of disastrous conflicts that would be bad for America.

Before his death, because his defiance of the Zionists, Kirk had become the target of a sustained private campaign of intimidation and free-floating fury by wealthy and powerful allies of Netanyahu – figures he described in an interview as Jewish “leaders” and “stakeholders.”

“He was afraid of them,” the source emphasized. “He was being told what you’re not allowed to do, and it was driving him crazy.”

Kirk’s friend recalled that the late youth leader was not only alienated by the hostile nature of their interactions, but “frightened” by the backlash of his defying Netanyahu.

According to his longtime friend, Kirk’s resentment of Netanyahu and the Israel lobby was spreading within Trump’s inner circle. In fact, they said, the president himself was terrified of Netanyahu’s wrath and feared the consequences of defying him.

During the past year, the Trump insider was told by contacts in the White House that the Secret Service had caught the Israeli regime personnel placing electronic devices on its emergency response vehicles on two separate occasions.

While The Grayzone was unable to confirm the story with the Secret Service or the White House, such an incident would not have been unprecedented. Indeed, according to a report in Politico citing three former senior US officials, a cellphone spying device was placed by Israeli agents “near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington” toward the end of Trump’s first term in 2019.

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson recounted a similar incident in his memoir, writing that his security team found a listening device in his bathroom soon after Netanyahu used his personal toilet.

The reports that the Israeli leader ordered the assassination of Kirk is so strong that Netanyahu was compelled to explicitly deny that the Tel Aviv regime was behind the killing.

Four days before the assassination, frustration among pro-Israel commentators bubbled over in public during a Fox News interview in which the Israelis’ premier influencer in the United States, Ben Shapiro, launched a chilling attack on Kirk without naming him.

“The problem with a ‘big tent’ is that you may end up with many clowns inside,” Shapiro told Fox host and fellow Zionist gatekeeper Mark Levin in an apparent critique of TPUSA.

“Just because you’re saying somebody votes Republican—that doesn’t mean that they ought to be the preacher at the front of the church, they’re not the person that ought to be leading the movement, if they are spending all day criticizing the president of the United States as ‘covering up a Mossad rape ring’ or ‘being a tool of the Israelis for hitting an Iranian nuclear facility.’”

When Kirk took his usual place at the “front of the church” four days later, he was cut down by a sniper’s bullet. Within 24 hours of Kirk’s death, Shapiro announced that he would be launching his own campus speaking tour, vowing to take Kirk’s place.

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