How Charlie Kirk's murder is being weaponised by his own side
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Last night, JD Vance appeared as guest host on Charlie Kirk's podcast. He took the opportunity to use the platform and vow to "dismantle institutions on the left that promote violence and terrorism." He used the death of his good friend, Charlie Kirk, to warn that “an incredibly destructive movement of left wing extremism“ contributed to his killing. Is the Trump administration genuinely blind to the violence also coming from the right? Or are they using this high profile tragedy as a way to justify a crack down that was always part of their plan?
Later, what did the Prime Minister know about the Mandelson-Epstein friendship before he was appointed? As an emergency debate takes place in the commons today, what does this all spell for Starmer?
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| 0:12.1 | And while our side of the aisle certainly has its crazies, it is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics in American politics today are proud members of the far left. |
| 0:23.5 | That was J.D. Vance, America's vice president. He's now presenting as a podcast host, |
| 0:29.7 | and he is claiming without any evidence that statistics show America's violence comes from the left. |
| 0:37.3 | Nearly a week on from Charlie Kirk's |
| 0:39.5 | death, we're starting to see a pattern that MAGA, President Trump, Vice President Vance |
| 0:45.4 | are using his death, capitalizing his death to go after their political opponents. Welcome to the |
| 0:53.6 | newsagents. The Newsagents. It's Emily. It's Lewis. |
| 1:01.0 | And that was J.D. Vance, who has taken the place of a man he calls his good friend, Charlie Kirk, |
| 1:07.9 | on what would have been Charlie Kirk's own podcast this week. And I think the kindest |
| 1:13.3 | way to see some of the comments that we're going to hear is through the lens of grief, perhaps. |
| 1:19.4 | There is no question that J.D. Vance was close to Charlie Kirk. There is every understanding |
| 1:25.3 | that it was Charlie Kirk who petitioned Trump as a candidate for president to put J.D. Vance in that role. |
| 1:33.9 | And so I suppose the way this makes the most sense is if you think that J.D. Vance is in a deep state of grief and wants to take whatever feels like the revenge for his |
| 1:48.1 | dear friend would be. The trouble is, when you're the vice president, it's not just like you're |
| 1:55.9 | screaming into the void. Your words have actions. And he essentially said in this podcast, it was a vow that he would |
| 2:06.2 | dismantle institutions on the left that he claims promote violence and terrorism. He's already |
| 2:13.2 | denounced two of the country's most prominent liberal foundations. He is going after whatever he |
| 2:20.2 | decrees to be a radical left group. This does not come in isolation. We saw in the immediate |
| 2:27.2 | wake of Charlie Kirk's appalling murder, President Trump himself, take to the airwaves, |
| 2:33.2 | obviously in perhaps himself in a state of some grief, but to the airwaves, obviously in perhaps himself, in a state of |
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