The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Debunking the Left’s Series of Lies Following Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

Episode Date: September 16, 2025

Less than a week after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Left has incessantly pushed several falsehoods about the horrific death of this young conservative leader and Turning Point USA co-founder. Charlie Kirk’s assassination is NOT conservatives’ "George Floyd moment." Not only does Kirk himself, a devout Christian, husband, and father of two, have nothing in common with Floyd but after his death, his followers channeled their anger toward fostering greater community and spirituality, not burning down historic churches, police precincts, and federal courthouses. Kirk’s death is not the result of “Right on Right” violence. Bullet casings from the scene of the crime had anti-fascist phrases like “Hey fascist! CATCH!” and “Bella Ciao” written on them. The suspect in Kirk’s assassination, Tyler Robinson, was in a romantic relationship with his roommate, a biological male who identifies as a girl, according to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox.  “So, the Left seized that moment and tried to push through agendas—and were successful—that otherwise would not have happened. Nobody's trying to do that now. "They're trying to commemorate Charlie Kirk by one positive way, and that is everybody go out and register to vote. Register as many people as you have. Register more people that are young and conservative than has ever been registered before. And then turn out in the November midterms in one year. And then do the impossible. Overturn historical precedent and elect a conservative House and Senate to empower a conservative Charlie Kirk agenda.” 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1  👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273  👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com  The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk, business. We're now approaching the first week of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and the left has put out, I would call them, a series of lies or untruths that are trying to confuse the American people about what happened on that Utah campus. Number one, they say this is the Conservatives' George Floyd moment. And they say this was a right-on-right violence because Mr. Robinson, the assassin, came from a Mormon family and even his trans boyfriend, girlfriend that he lived with. He too, she's. was a Mormon. That's about as close as you can get to that on truth. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. We're now approaching the first week

of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and the left has put out, I would call them a series of lies or untruths that are trying to confuse the American people about what happened on that Utah campus. Let's do number one. They say, This is the conservative George Floyd moment. It is not a George Floyd moment. In 2020, after the death of George Floyd, Antifa and BLM led five months of violent protest. 35 people killed, 1,500 police officers injured, historic church torch, police precinct torch, federal courthouse torched. In addition to that, we had 1,500 officers injured.

$2 billion of property damage, arson, looting violence, tried to rush Donald Trump in the White House and tried to get him on the grounds and send him to the White House bunker. That didn't happen after the death of Charlie Kirk. All people did was try to double down on his efforts. They tried to subscribe in great numbers to Turning Point USA. They talked about registering to vote,

but it was all peaceful and calm. It was not anything like George Floyd. Number two, George Floyd should not have died in police custody. I'm not going to assess that blame one way or the other, and that was a tragedy that he died. But Charlie Kirk was not anything like George Floyd. George Floyd was an eight-time career criminal, eight times he had been convicted of crimes. He was a prison convict. He staged a home invasion robbery and put a knife at the abdomen of the eye.

occupant, a young woman. George Floyd would have been fine if he had not been trying to pass counterfeit currency. That's the only reason he had the encounter with the police. The store owner was scared that this stranger came in was passing fake bills. They called the police. He had a second chance. All he had to do is obey the police and get in the car and go to the police station. There would have been no problem. He was on amphetamines. He was on fentanyl. He had a COVID disease. He had not been a good father. You had not been a good family. Charlie Kirk had never been involved with law enforcement in a negative fashion.

He had two kids. He had a wonderful wife. He had a stable family. He was just the antithesis of George Floyd. There was nothing at all similar. A third lie about the passing of Charlie Kirk as well, this was a right-on-right violence because Mr. Robinson, the assassin, from a Mormon family and even his trans transitioning boyfriend, girlfriend that he lived with,

he too, she too, was from a Mormon. That's about as close as you can get to that on truth. In fact, he took the effort to scrawl on the cartridges of the shells that he intended to kill Charlie Kirk. And one did, he had, what did he have on it? He had Antifa Lago. both in Italian and English. He had trans messaging. He was on record on a trans chat site, a group of radical people talking about, people were talking about, joking about killing Charlie Kirk.

People who knew him said that he was obsessed with the upcoming arrival of Charlie Kirk, that he damned him at a family dimmer. People who knew him said that he was bragging what a great shot he was and how far left he was. That was a proven fact that the person who killed Charlie Kirk was a member of the left, just exactly like Luigi Mangione or the Sarnah brothers and a whole list of people who've tried to take out people as varied as the two people, the Jewish couple that were killed and butchered at the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. or the Bernie Sanders, former Bernie Sanders,

activists who tried to kill some of the Republican leadership and almost killed Steve Scalise. So that was on truth. And finally, it's very important to see that as a reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk, there's nobody going out and threatening everybody. There's nobody saying that we have to go after this particular person on the left. We have to do this particular person. We have to have vast new laws to protect Charlie Kirk. There's anger that the left has been promiscuous in the use of Nazi and fascism,

and that lowered the bar of the acceptable. But it's not like George Floyd where all of a sudden people on the left, remember they were kneeling in the rotunda, Nancy Pelosi, And immediately, immediately the bureaucracy, Mark Millie, Lloyd Austin, they used that occasion to mandate radical DEI transformations in our society. The University of Chicago, to take one example, announced that their English department would take no applicants and less they were black studies concentrators. So the left seized that moment and tried to push through agendas and were,

successful that otherwise would not have happened. Nobody's trying to do that now. They're trying to commemorate Charlie Kirk by one positive way, and that is everybody go out and register to vote. Register as many people as you have. Registered more people that are young and conservative that has ever been registered before, and then turn out in the November midterms in one year, and then do the impossible, overturn historical precedent and elect a conservative. And elect a conservative House and Senate to empower a conservative Charlie Kirk agenda. Thank you very much, is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal. Thank you for tuning in to The Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my

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