Charlie Kirk rejected an offer earlier this year from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to arrange a massive new infusion of Zionist money into his Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization, America's largest conservative youth association, according to a longtime friend of the slain commentator speaking on the condition of anonymity. The source told The Grayzone that the late pro-Trump influencer believed Netanyahu was trying to cow him into silence as he began to publicly question Israel's overwhelming influence in Washington and demanded more space to criticize it.
In the weeks leading up to his September 10 assassination, Kirk had come to loathe the Israeli leader, regarding him as a "bully," the source said. Kirk was disgusted by what he witnessed inside the Trump administration, where Netanyahu sought to personally dictate the president's personnel decisions, and weaponized Israeli assets like billionaire donor Miriam Adelson to keep the White House firmly under its thumb.
Comment: Kirk's assassination was probably not primarily motivated by a need to silence the man himself. He was a relatively 'mainstream' conservative figure. But it could certainly be the case that his brutal death is intended to silence others, notably Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, whose reach is arguably bigger and more potent. In the end though, the main intention is probably the one we're witnessing in the social media space: rage, division, and bitter civic disarray.