Inside the MAGA Reaction to Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

Offline with Jon Favreau

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Charlie Kirk’s assassination has rattled people on both sides of the aisle and terrified those whose jobs, like Charlie’s, involve talking about politics on the public stage. Jon reflects on the aftermath of the killing, what he finds most alarming, and his disappointment with leaders on the right and followers on the left. Then, the Bulwark’s Will Sommer joins the show to break down how important Charlie Kirk was to the MAGA movement, how the right is reacting to new information about his killer, and how Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Megyn Kelly are all scrambling for control of his legacy and Turning Point USA. Jon closes out the show by answering Offline producer Austin Fisher’s questions on the ripple effects of the assassination.

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1:17.4	We saw Pam Bondi saying, we're going to have hate crimes.
1:20.2	We're going to pursue these hate crimes.
1:21.7	I think Bondi's mistake was phrasing it in a way that Republicans have been taught to fear hate crime laws or hate speech laws.
1:30.1	And so they said, whoa, wait, you know, that's about us, maybe.
1:33.5	Whereas one Maha guy I follow, I thought it was funny, he was saying, you know, whoa, well, hate speech, let's not talk, that's not American.
1:41.7	We want purges.
1:42.8	We want roundups.
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1:53.4	I'm John Favro, and you just heard from the bulwarks Will Summer, who I talked to earlier today about Charlie Kirk, the Wright's reaction to the assassination,
2:02.2	and some of the theories that have been racing around the internet.
2:06.4	But I want to start today's show with a longer open about how I've been processing the
2:10.9	aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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