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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 2280 - Kirk’s Shooter Had TRANS Boyfriend, Far-Left Views

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

As a massive outpouring of support from around the globe floods into TPUSA and Charlie Kirk’s family, new details emerge about Charlie’s killer; the mainstream Left continues creating permission structures for violence; and we talk about the vagaries of “cancel culture.” Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/3WDjgHE Ep.2280 - - - Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings - - - DailyWire+: Order my new book, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America (and Her Critics) right now at https://bit.ly/4lVaMEA Watch The Isabel Brown Show now at https://dailywire.com Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw - - - Today's Sponsors: PureTalk - Switch to PureTalk and start saving today! Visit https://PureTalk.com/SHAPIRO Balance of Nature - Go to https://balanceofnature.com and use promo code SHAPIRO for 35% off your first order as a preferred customer, PLUS get a free bottle of Fiber and Spice ZipRecruiter - Go to this exclusive web address to try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE: https://ZipRecruiter.com/DAILYWIRE USAFacts.org - Go to https://bit.ly/4aLWkL7 and sign up for their free weekly email to get clear, contextualized facts on the issues that matter. Acorns - Join the over 14 million all-time customers who have already saved and invested over $25 billion dollars with Acorns. Sign up now and Acorns will boost your new account with a $5 bonus investment. Head to https://acorns.com/SHAPIRO or download the Acorns app to get started. - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53  Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ  Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd  Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Folks, I hope that you spent a meaningful weekend with friends and family. I hope that you went to church, your Jewish hope going to synagogue. Have you spent some time with God and with your family, with your community? Because that's what Charlie Kirk would have done had he not been assassinated last week. We're going to get to all the darkness in the world. There's a lot out there. We're going to analyze what led to the murder of Charlie Kirk. we have new evidence as to what the shooter was doing, what the shooter believed.

0:23.7

It is not particularly surprised. lot out there. We're going to analyze what led to the murder of Charlie Kirk. We have new evidence

0:21.1

as to what the shooter was doing, what the shooter believed. It is not particularly surprising. We're also going to get to the permission structures that have been created, and it is across the political spectrum. But in this case, and in large scale, we are talking about the political left that has created permission structures for violence. We're going to get to all of that. But I want to start with the actual uplifting reality that millions of people are coming together

0:41.7

in memory of Charlie Kirk. So over the weekend, over $5 million was raised for Charlie Kirk's

0:49.6

family. Turning Point USA, which is Charlie's organization, according to the New York Post,

0:54.0

received 18,000 new chapter requests in less than 24 hours after his widow Erica spoke out

0:59.5

about the assassination of her husband. And again, it's all heartbreaking and horrifying in every

1:07.5

way, except that Charlie's legacy is going to be that millions of people went to church

1:13.6

yesterday who wouldn't otherwise have gone to church. Tens of thousands of people are going to

1:18.1

get politically involved with T.P. USA. Millions more are going to take inspiration from Charlie.

1:26.9

There will be a funeral for Charlie scheduled for September 21st, which is next Sunday,

1:32.4

at State Farm Stadium, which is home of the Arizona Cardinals.

1:35.0

President Trump is promising to attend as well.

1:40.3

Again, all of this outpouring for Charlie is truly amazing.

1:46.5

It really, really is.

1:48.7

And I hope that it's some comfort to Charlie's family.

1:53.5

Morgan Wallen at his concert over in Canada paid tribute to Charlie Kirk.

1:57.9

Here's what that sounded like.

2:00.3

It's been hit me harder in the last couple days. I just wanted to let Eric Kirk know to me and my

2:04.9

family are sitting praise our way.

2:08.6

Go see it with me if you're doing.

2:13.2

Chris Martin did something similar. And again, I've been very critical of Chris

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