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The Philip DeFranco Show

Charlie Kirk Meme Scandal is Insane, Zohran Mamdani's Fake News Problem, & Donald Trump Goes Nuclear

The Philip DeFranco Show

philip defranco

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4.81000 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:30.1

Trump's fun, new nuclear threats and what it means for you, the man jailed over Charlie

0:34.4

Kirk memes was just freed after a month in jail.

0:36.9

The Zoran Mamdani Bill de Blasio scandal shows why healthy skepticism is healthy and then I got a final awesome thing for you today. But we're talking about all of that and even more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news starting with this. A guy who got arrested over social media post that he made following Charlie Kirk's death was just released from jail.

0:55.3

Because we're talking about Larry Busshart in Tennessee who got taken into custody on September 22nd with him just getting released today. So he was in there for over a month. Right, and Larry, he's a retired police officer. He's known to talk politics online and post liberal memes. Right according to reports in the days after Charlie was killed, Larry was doing just that, posting a ton on Facebook, including in the comment section of a post in a group called What's Happening in Perry County. And that post was about a vigil to be taking place to honor Charlie in a town called Lyndon, and Larry posted a slew of memes asking who gives a shit that Charlie died, mocking Cash Patel's Valhalla comment and more. But also, the one that got him in the most trouble was where he referenced Donald Trump's own words. Or with there being a photo at Trump's face, alongside the quote, we have to get over it. With a meme noting that Trump did in fact say that one day after a shooting at Perry High School in Iowa. And above that, the meme said, this seems relevant today. Where to most people, it would seem like the meme is suggesting that if Trump is telling people to get over school shootings, then the public should also get over Charlie Kirk. But also a thing here is that the local high school in the town there, it was called Perry County High School. And there had also recently been an alleged threat against it. And so the Perry County Sheriff claimed that this caused panic. Saying that parents and students and teachers were concerned that he was talking about a hypothetical school shooting at the local Perry County High School in Tennessee. And so Larry, he ends up getting charged with threatening mass violence at a school and he gets held on $2 million bail. With that, truly shocking Larry, according to body cam footage published by The Intercept. This is what they sorted to do. Okay. Threatening mass violence at a school. At a school school it's referring to a school

2:18.6

I have no idea

2:19.4

that's what they've called us for

2:21.0

and I ain't get a clue

2:22.5

I played on Facebook

2:24.0

I'm not saying

2:27.9

you did it didn't do anything

2:29.2

no I did do but I didn't

2:30.6

that's what I'm saying I'm not saying

2:33.2

you did not commit a crime I may have been a ass saying. I'm not saying you did. I did not commit a crime.

2:35.0

I may have been a asshole, but I'm... That's not illegal. Right, and with this, you've had many questioning if this post even caused the mass panic the way the sheriff claimed that it did. With the senior attorney for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression telling USA Today that he filed open records request with Perry County Schools, asking for communications laying out the so-called hysteria that Larry allegedly caused.

2:52.4

But they apparently had none with him explaining. I never heard any He filed open records requests with Perry County Schools asking for communications laying out the so-called hysteria that Larry allegedly caused.

2:52.6

But they apparently had none with him explaining.

2:54.6

I never heard anything back at all from the county and all the school said was that the sheriff handled the case and there are no records.

2:59.6

And on top of that, well, some of Larry's other comments actually got traction and responses, that mean one was apparently ignored on Facebook.

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