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Glenn Beck and Megyn Kelly were holding on to hope that the shooting of Charlie Kirk was not fatal while in the middle of recording an episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show.”

But it was during that episode that they got the horrific news: Their friend was assassinated at just 31 years old.

Days later, the news is no less shocking.

“I still don’t feel like I have my arms around it,” Megyn tells Glenn. “I don’t feel like I’ve totally digested the fact that he’s gone and the way in which he was taken. You know, Charlie truly was such a larger-than-life figure.”

“We say that term, but it was true about him. At 6’5”, he truly seemed larger than most of us. And he was, in his gifts and his tirelessness and just knowing exactly where the seam in every story was. And his raw courage,” she continues.

“You’d look at Charlie and you’d think, ‘Now that’s true courage,’” she adds.

Charlie said what others were afraid to say, and he said it with a kindness that softened even some of the more radical leftists on college campuses.

However, he was also widely misunderstood.

“He took a lot of slings and arrows for it and was demonized for being all the terrible things as opposed to people taking him on and saying, ‘Does he have a point?’” Megyn says.

“Megyn, how do we process this? How do we surface from this?” Glenn interjects.

“I think, as with any loss, we all have to go through the denial and the bargaining, you know, like I’m still refreshing my X account like hoping somehow there’s a reversal, you know, like somehow it was all wrong. Somehow we got it all wrong,” she answers.

“That’s a natural reaction when you’ve had a sudden loss in particular. And anger’s completely appropriate now, too,” she says, adding, “It’s completely appropriate.”

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit gave President Donald Trump a big win on Thursday and abortion radicals something new to cry about.

As of last year, Planned Parenthood — the abortion and sex-change service provider founded by a eugenicist who stressed the need to “apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring” — was getting around $670 million in government funding annually.

‘Taxpayers should not be forced to spend a dime funding a brutal industry that ends at least 1.1 million lives a year.’

Trump, who said he would defund the organization during a 2016 debate, ratified the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 4, which contained a provision that would cut Planned Parenthood and its members off of Medicaid funding for fiscal year 2026.

The usual suspects complained, and Planned Parenthood sued to keep the cash flowing.

Attorneys for Planned Parenthood argued in the lawsuit against the Trump administration that the cuts could lead to the closing of 200 abortion clinics across the country.

Days after granting Planned Parenthood a preliminary injunction against the enactment, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama-nominated judge, gave the abortion giant what it wanted, ruling on July 28 that its clinics must continue to be reimbursed through Medicaid funding.

Talwani suggested that a cut in funding might cause women to “suffer adverse health consequences,” face more unplanned pregnancies, and go without treatment for venereal diseases.

RELATED: Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Roberts: Conservatives must get ‘uncomfortably honest about our present crisis’

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A panel of First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges, all of whom were appointed by President Joe Biden, noted in a Thursday 3-0 ruling that the Trump administration had met its burden to show entitlement to a stay of Talwani’s injunctions pending the outcome of its appeals of the same.

There was plenty of gnashing of teeth at Planned Parenthood in the wake of the ruling.

Dominique Lee, CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, stated, “This ruling is a direct assault on patients’ lives. Nearly 40% of PPLM’s patients rely on Medicaid, and without it, many are left with no care and no options.”

Alexis McGill Johnson, CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, melted down over the news, saying, “Patients who rely on the essential health care that Planned Parenthood health centers provide can’t plan for their futures, decide where they go for care, or control their lives, bodies, and futures — all because the Trump administration and its backers want to attack Planned Parenthood and shut down health centers.”

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America celebrated the ruling, writing, “We are pleased the First Circuit has shut down Big Abortion’s desperate money-grab.”

“Taxpayers should not be forced to spend a dime funding a brutal industry that ends at least 1.1 million lives a year, harms women while providing dwindling, substandard health care services, and engages in partisan political activism — especially when more accessible, more comprehensive options outnumber Planned Parenthoods 15 to 1. We are confident the Trump administration will prevail against the abortion industry’s lawfare.”

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Charlie Kirk’s horrific assassination on Wednesday has led many people to wonder about the future of the conservative movement. While Kirk will be sorely missed in the discourse, many political figures are stepping up to the podium with some choice words for their enemies.

On Thursday, the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro released a statement attempting both to dispel rumors and to encourage those who are mourning the loss of the late conservative giant.

‘We’re going to pick up that bloodstained microphone where Charlie left it.’

In the statement, Shapiro cut through earlier rumors that he would be canceling speaking events in the future. “Now, it’s still up to us. I saw a lot of rumors online today — I was made aware of this by my team — that I canceled some sort of college tour. That’s bulls**t. I saw those rumors. They are false. I will be coming to college campuses, many of them this year. So will we all, I am sure, because we’re Americans, and we’re not going to be deterred.”

The co-founder of the Daily Wire made clear that intimidation would not stifle free discussion of ideas. “Charlie’s voice is not silent. We’re going to pick up that bloodstained microphone where Charlie left it,” Shapiro said.

RELATED: Grieving Charlie Kirk: How to cling to God in the face of evil

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“And to those who would intimidate, who would seek to stop us, who would seek to end free discussion, who believe that they have ownership over public spaces and can violently threaten and kill people who speak freely: We are not going to stop, and I have two words: F**k you.”

Turning Point USA and the Daily Wire have had a strong partnership in shaping the contemporary conservative movement.

While the future may seem uncertain, Shapiro made one point very clear: “We will not stop telling the truth. We will never stop telling the truth. We will never stop debating and discussing. We will never stop standing up for what America is and for what she should be, and we will never let Charlie Kirk’s voice die.”

“Goodbye to my friend Charlie Kirk. May your memory be a blessing for your family and for your country and for all of us.”

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Joe Rogan and his recent guest, actor Charlie Sheen, had live reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk during the latest episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”

During the podcast interview with Sheen that was recorded on Wednesday afternoon, Rogan was notified in the middle of his broadcast that Kirk had been shot.

‘You’re allowed to disagree with people without celebrating the fact they got shot.’

A visibly distraught Rogan asked aloud near the end of this podcast, “Should we bring this up? I guess we have to. So this just happened. We just found out that Charlie Kirk got shot.”

Sheen replied, “It’s f**king awful.”

After it was confirmed that Kirk was assassinated, Sheen commented, “Murdered for having a different opinion from somebody else. A different ideology from somebody else. His beliefs didn’t align.”

“He doesn’t deserve that,” Sheen added. “Nobody deserves that.”

Upon hearing the news that Kirk had been killed, Rogan was visibly shaken over the assassination, exhaling loudly in a video clip.

Rogan then skewered MSNBC for commentary that suggested that the shooting of Kirk was possibly “a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration.” Rogan remarked, “Oh God. What a crazy take. Like it might not have been someone assassinating someone for the wrong opinion.”

Rogan noted that MSNBC had a narrative of attempting to “try to pin it on a crazy Trump supporter with a gun going wacky.” As Blaze News reported, MSNBC analyst Matthew Dowd was fired following “insensitive” comments he made during the live coverage of the shooting of Kirk.

Rogan made a correct prognostication when he uttered, “There’s gonna be a lot of people celebrating this.” Blaze News brought to light some of the more reprehensible reactions by left-wing supporters celebrating the murder of Kirk.

RELATED: Charlie Kirk assassination timeline: What we know so far

Rogan delivered a warning about the dangers of people celebrating the murder of Kirk.

“It’s so scary. It’s so dangerous to celebrate or to in any way encourage this kind of behavior from human beings,” Rogan explained. “It’s not a violent guy. He’s talking, he’s talking to people on college campuses. He wasn’t even particularly rude. He tried to be pretty reasonable with people.”

“He’s a very intelligent guy,” Rogan said of Kirk, then added, “Whether you agree with him or don’t – and there’s a lot of stuff that I didn’t agree with him on, and that’s fine – you’re allowed to disagree with people without celebrating the fact they got shot.”

Sheen chimed in, “You can’t disrespect his passion.”

Rogan encouraged people not to celebrate Kirk’s murder but to embrace more “discourse” to resolve differences. Rogan urged people who disagree with people like Kirk to engage in debate to prove who has the best ideology by compelling conversation.

Rogan proclaimed, “No one deserves this, folks. No one that has different opinions, no one deserves that. No, this is horrible, no.”

The prolific podcaster pointed out that people will celebrate Kirk’s assassination because we live in a “f**ked up time,” when “people have really fallen into this trap of us against them.” Rogan was concerned about the possible ramifications of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Rogan revealed that he met Kirk once at a gun range, and he was a “nice guy” when they met.

“This is a f**ked up time,” Rogan stated. “People are so divided in this country, so divided. And there’s so many people that love it. They love that we’re divided, and they profit off that division, and they stoke the fires, and they do it for their own profit. And it’s so f**king gross. It’s so gross.”

Rogan pleaded that this should be a “wake-up call” for everyone.

“This is a dark day,” Sheen said, to which Rogan immediately agreed.

Rogan recommended that Americans need to “have a conversation about being able to have conversations,” or “it’s going to get a lot worse.”

“That’s what’s scary,” the comedian continued. “Scary that this could spark off some kind of real violent conflict.”

“That guy had a lot of fans. A lot of people loved that guy,” Rogan said of Kirk. “And if they find out that he got killed for something they vehemently oppose in the first place, it could send people over the edge.”

Sheen warned that Kirk’s assassination could be a “flashpoint moment.”

You can watch the entire “Joe Rogan Experience” episode with Charlie Sheen here.

RELATED: New York Times continues SPLC demonization of Charlie Kirk, accuses him of provocation

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An employee at a special education school in Arizona is accused of having an illicit relationship with a student, according to authorities.

Charlotte Huesby, a 24-year-old therapeutic support staff member at the Austin Centers for Exceptional Students in Peoria, was arrested Sept. 3.

The father told investigators that the student spent ‘nearly every weekend with Charlotte’ beginning in 2024, and spent most of his 2025 summer break living with her, according to the documents.

The Peoria Police Department informed Blaze News that Huesby was charged with sexual conduct with a minor and sexual exploitation of a minor, both class 2 felonies.

KSAZ-TV said an investigation began Aug. 28 when officers were sent to Austin Centers for Exceptional Students where the school’s superintendent had discovered “inappropriate text messages” between a 17-year-old student and Huesby.

The station said a portion of the court documents read, “Earlier in the day, a school counselor conducted a regularly scheduled counseling session with a student, and the student wanted to talk about an incident involving the victim. The student said she and the victim were hanging out on [Aug. 27] and the victim told the student that [the victim] and a staff member had a sexual relationship.”

The victim had videos of the sex encounters with the school staffer, police said.

The teen told detectives that he and Huesby “began dating” weeks after meeting at school in 2024 and had sexual contact on a regular basis after meeting.

The student alleged that Huesby got a hotel for a night and invited him to stay over. The couple allegedly had sexual intercourse at the hotel, which was reportedly recorded on video. KSAZ reported that Huesby told the boy that she wanted him to impregnate her.

Authorities report that another student informed a guidance counselor about a video circulating in a social media group chat allegedly depicting the teen engaging in sexual activity with the staff member.

Once the alarming allegations surfaced, the school immediately placed Huesby on administrative leave.

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During a Sept. 3 interview with investigators, Huesby confessed to having sex with the boy between 10 and 15 times, according to court documents. Huesby was arrested after the interview.

Meanwhile, the father of the alleged victim reportedly told detectives that he believed his son was in a relationship with an 18-year-old high school senior named “Angie.” However, the son reportedly informed his father later on that “Angie” was actually the 24-year-old paraprofessional.

The father told investigators that the student spent “nearly every weekend with Charlotte” beginning in 2024 and spent most of his 2025 summer break living with her, according to the documents.

The dad “never knew Charlotte was 24 and worked at [his son’s] school,” police wrote in their report.

Huesby was terminated from the Austin Centers for Exceptional Students on Aug. 29, according to the school.

Huesby had worked at the school for six years, according to KSAZ.

The Austin Centers for Exceptional Students said in a statement provided to KSAV:

On August 28, 2025, The ACES learned of a potential case of misconduct involving a paraprofessional employee and a high school student which allegedly took place outside of school hours and off campus. The ACES promptly notified law enforcement officials. The individual in question was immediately suspended, and a complete investigation was initiated. The staff member’s employment was terminated from our Peoria location on August 29th. On Sept 3rd, we learned from the authorities that the former employee was taken into police custody. All individuals employed by The ACES are required to undergo comprehensive initial and ongoing federal, state, and local criminal background checks, routine drug testing, and maintain a current Arizona IVP fingerprint clearance card. As we have done over the last 30 years, The ACES will continue to place the welfare and safety of our students as our highest priority.

The Austin Centers for Exceptional Students offers a “multifaceted special education program, designed specifically for students with emotional disabilities, autism, intellectual disabilities, specific learning disabilities, or other educational challenges.”

The Peoria Police Department told Blaze News that this case “remains an active investigation.”

Huesby’s arraignment hearing is scheduled for Sept. 17.

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When Charlie Kirk was asked in an interview how he would want to be remembered, he answered without hesitation.

“I want to be remembered for courage for my faith. That would be the most important thing. The most important thing is my faith in my life,” he said.

In honor of Charlie’s wish, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says, “I think he will be,” before reading Matthew 25:23: “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness.”

“I think God is well pleased with Charlie Kirk and what he accomplished in his 31 years of life,” he says.

Kirk accomplished more in his 31 years than most people do in a lifetime — including becoming a major part of America’s strong faith-based conservative base.

“I really don’t like political partisanship, but there is a difference between the two political dynamics, the left and the right. And the difference is at their base, and I’m talking about the hardcore base of the conservative movement. It’s all based on biblical principles,” Whitlock explains.

“Charlie Kirk was a part of that base, that evangelical part of the conservative movement that really is trying to inflict, impose, influence government policies through a biblical lens,” he continues.

However, this is what angered leftists and the mainstream media the most, who labeled Kirk as polarizing.

“For the left, the most passionate people are the most secular people. … They stand shoulder to shoulder with the transgender crowd, the Alphabet Mafia, the pro-abortion crowd … and it’s because their worldview isn’t really biblical,” Whitlock says.

Rather, their worldview is “racial.”

And Charlie aimed to help the leftist youth see the world for more than the color of someone’s skin or a rainbow of genders.

“And that’s why I say hats off to Charlie Kirk. That in some ways, today is a celebration of a great young man, of someone that at an early age figured out how to match his talents with an activity and a passion and a life’s work that glorified and honored God,” Whitlock says.

“He recognized that this world has become so political, and that politics are driving so much of our worldview, that if he doesn’t inject Christianity and a biblical worldview into politics, we’re going to lose more and more people, and this world is going to become more and more worldly and secular, more and more hostile to God,” he continues.

“And Satan realized this man had to be stopped, because he was having too much impact on this world,” he says. “He was converting and opening the eyes of too many young people, and he had to be stopped.”

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Texas police are still investigating the gruesome alleged attack at a Dallas motel where a man was decapitated with a machete in front of his wife and child.

Court documents said that Yordanis Cobos-Martinez got into an argument with 50-year-old Chandra Mouli Nagamallaiah at the Downtown Suites motel off of Interstate 30 in Old East Dallas on Wednesday. A witness said the argument was over a broken washing machine.

After hacking the man’s head off, he kicked it twice and then picked it up and dropped it by a dumpster.

The witness, who worked with 37-year-old Cobos-Martinez, told police that the suspect was angry at Nagamallaiah for talking to the witness to translate during the argument instead of talking to Cobos-Martinez directly.

Cobos-Martinez then allegedly obtained a machete and began hacking at Nagamallaiah, who yelled and tried to run off through the parking lot toward the motel office. The victim’s wife and son came out and tried to stop the attack, but Cobos-Martinez allegedly pushed them off and continued.

Police say the attacker went through the victim’s pockets and took his cell phone and key card.

After hacking the man’s head off, he kicked it twice and then picked it up and dropped it by a dumpster.

Dallas Fire-Rescue followed the man, who was bloodied, until police were able to arrest him.

RELATED: Man admitted to killing his mother and then beheading her, South Dakota police say

(WARNING: Very graphic and disturbing video.) Gruesome video apparently showing some of the attack surfaced on social media.

Dallas County Jail records say that Cobos-Martinez is facing a capital murder charge and being held without bond.

KDFW-TV reported that he’s also being held on an immigration hold which may indicate that he’s in the country illegally.

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President Donald Trump revealed on Friday morning that the suspected assassin of Charlie Kirk is now in custody and was apparently turned in by a family member at the urging of a faith leader.

“I think with a high degree of certainty we have him in custody,” Trump told “Fox & Friends.” “Everyone did a great job. We worked with the local police, the governor — everybody did a great job.”

Just hours earlier, the FBI released additional photos of the suspected assassin as well as footage showing him bounding across the rooftop at Utah Valley University, then dropping down onto the grass below.

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The president indicated that based on what he was told just five minutes before the interview, a minister involved with law enforcement urged the suspect’s father to turn in his son and apparently collaborated with a U.S. marshal.

Blaze News has reached out to the FBI for comment

This is a developing story.

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President Donald Trump was in attendance at the New York Yankees baseball game to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Video from the event shows the president saluting as the national anthem was sung before the game against the Detroit Tigers. There were many chants of “USA!” before the start of the game.

‘You’re going to win, you’re going to go all the way, and you’ll get in the playoff.’

The president visited the locker room of the Yankees before the game and joked that they always won when he attended, so they were bound to win that day.

“You’re going to win, you’re going to go all the way, and you’ll get in the playoff,” Trump said to the players.

Panels of glass were installed as a security measure at the game.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone said he was excited that the president was attending the game.

“I’ve had the honor and fortune of some presidents over the years, first pitches, whatever it may be,” Boone said. “The fact that he is going to be here is something that I’m excited to be a part of, to see. I don’t know what it will be like. But to interact for a few minutes, it’s something I’m looking forward to.”

RELATED: MLB players appear to reference Trump assassination attempt during home run celebrations

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The president also honored the victims of 9/11 in a ceremony earlier in the day at the Pentagon.

The team urged fans to arrive early at the stadium due to enhanced security for the president in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, his ally and friend.

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Forget about the riots, censorship, and the gradual transition into full-blown anarcho-tyranny. If the pub dies, England will truly lose its soul.

Let me explain. We like to drink. A lot. English culture revolves around alcohol, like electrons around a nucleus. Drinking is in our blood. There’s nothing we won’t drink to, no place we won’t pop open a beer.

Elsewhere, an angry Muslim man is suing the Saracen’s Head in Buckinghamshire for its alleged ’Islamophobic’ name and sign.

When commercial air travel became affordable to the working class, the airplane evolved into a flying bar. I once boarded the same plane as a bunch of inebriated women on a hen party to Spain. A drunken woman punching a man on an economy flight to Ibiza is something of a British rite of passage.

Drinking it in

Ours is a country steeped in history, tradition, and strong drink. Like the Irish, we can boast of many an ale-quaffing literary heavyweight. It was Chaucer who made reference to the Tabard Inn almost 700 years ago in “The Canterbury Tales.” Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare drank in the George Inn just a few yards away.

The Tabard was demolished in 1873. The George still exists but only as a museum — an apt symbol for our current crisis.

A few days ago, I walked past a place I regularly used to drink. It was like seeing a ghost. A poster case housing thousands of papered-over concert flyers half an inch thick has been ripped down, leaving the exposed brickwork cracked, discolored, and casting an ominous shadow.

From a broken window, I saw that the chairs were stacked on tables, the oak bar counter was gone, and the copper foot rail had been removed from its bolts. The doors were locked, and the loud neon sign that had once welcomed me in like an old friend now sat silently on the ground, gathering dirt.

Poignant pints

Standing there, aghast, my heart sank, and I felt the pangs of nostalgia. You see, It was more than just a pub. It was a repository of memories. Imagine if bricks could tell stories: a place that my friend took me after my first break up. As a young man, it was where I came to know my father as he slipped a pint across the table without saying anything. On late nights, it was where co-workers danced while the jukebox played the Pogues and everyone sang along.

I remember the beer garden where I chatted up a future girlfriend, asking her for a light, and that dimly lit back room where I jumped off a speaker stack into the sticky, beer-soaked floor at my first ever live gig. It’s where my best friend shared his heart-wrenching news that he only had a few weeks left and the place where locals came together to raise a glass in his memory when he was gone.

What ales us

We are losing an average of one pub per day. Since 2020, more than 2,000 have shut their doors for good. Economic factors have played a big part in the decline of the industry. Escalating business rates, VAT, and alcohol duties are causing many pubs to close — one-third of the cost of a pint now goes toward taxes. Landlords have been forced to increase prices due to the escalating expenses. It’s predicted that the price of a pint could double in less than a decade. In some parts of London, it has reached 10 pounds. As a result, many people now buy alcohol from the off license (liquor store) and drink it at home.

The culture wars have also played a part. Pubs with names like the Black Bitch, the Black Boy, and the Blacks Head have all been changed due to racial identitarians spouting nonsense about systemic/structural/institutional racism.

Head case

Elsewhere, an angry Muslim man is suing the Saracen’s Head in Buckinghamshire for its alleged “Islamophobic” name and sign. Every time Khalid Baqa walks past the pub in Amersham, he is “shocked and deeply offended” seeing the name Saracen — the name for Arabs and Muslims in the Middle Ages. The 61-year-old Baqa claims that the pub sign “incites violence” and glorifies “decapitating/beheading Muslims.” He wants the landlord to pay him £1,800 for the offense. If successful, he plans to target the other 30 British pubs with the same name.

The plaintiff turns out to be a convicted terrorist. In 2018, he was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for creating and distributing jihadi propaganda. No need to worry; in an interview with the Sun newspaper, he claims to have “stopped all the terrorism stuff now.”

RELATED: Why the English flag now terrifies the regime

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Ours to save

Defending our culture goes far beyond stopping a mad Muslim pensioner from declaring jihad on a 500-year-old bar. We must fight a true culture war. In order to save pubs, taxes must be cut, grants and subsidies allocated to community-owned pubs, and new planning laws enacted to prevent developers from tearing down historic buildings such as pubs and churches, which serve as important social hubs.

Pubs are where the English laugh, cry, and argue. They bring people together. As a result, they act as an antidote to loneliness and isolation, two of the most insidious and pervasive threats in our time. As I sat in my new local pub, I noticed a young woman and her father befriending an elderly man. Three strangers, two generations bonded over fries and Guinness. That’s what community means. And we are losing it.

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Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota ridiculed admirers of Charlie Kirk while trying to express sadness at his assassination.

Omar was speaking with former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan on his show when she criticized Kirk and his allies for many of their politically incorrect positions and called them “full of s**t.”

‘It’s important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness and have, you know, empathy.’

Omar expressed sadness for Kirk’s wife and children before going through a litany of her objections to Kirk’s political positions. Among those positions were that guns save lives and that Juneteenth should not exist as a holiday.

She also claimed that he downplayed slavery and the controversy over George Floyd, as well as what black people have gone through in the U.S.

“I think, you know, there are a lot of people who are out there talking about him just wanting to have a civil debate,” she said.

“A complete rewriting of history!” Hasan interrupted.

She then grouped those people in with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and President Donald Trump before dismissing them all.

“You have people like Nancy Mace, who constantly harass, you know, people that she finds inferior and wants them not to exist in this country or ever,” she said. “You know, you have people like Trump, who has incited violence against people like me.

“These people are full of s**t, and it’s important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness and have, you know, empathy,” she added.

Omar went on to criticize Kirk for a common mischaracterization of his comments against empathy.

“My heart does break for those babies,” she said of Kirk’s children.

“I have empathy for his kids and his wife and what they’re going through because I do not want that.”

“No one should go through that, and we hold ourselves, I hope, to higher standards,” replied Hasan.

Hasan then said that their Islamic faith commands them to have empathy for others.

RELATED: ‘It’s the death of free speech!’ Jay Leno expresses his shock at killing of Charlie Kirk

Video of the entire interview with Omar can be viewed on YouTube.

Omar is not the only member of “the Squad” in Congress who has gone out of her way to criticize those aggrieved by the assassination of Kirk. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York excoriated Trump for blaming the left for the shooting before any suspect had been apprehended.

“When a politician tries to blame words for an action, they need to look at their action and their record. Enough of this! This is horrific,” Ocasio-Cortez said to CNN’s Manu Raju. “This is awful, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk risks an uncorking of political chaos and violence that we cannot risk in America.”

Law enforcement authorities are searching for a person of interest who has been captured on footage in security video related to the shooting.

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The family of stabbing victim Iryna Zarutska says she texted her boyfriend that she was on her way home on the night of her death.

Zarutska was stabbed to death on August 22 on a Lynx Blue Line train in the south end of Charlotte in a brutal murder that resulted in blame being levied at not only the accused, Decarlos Brown Jr., but also the judicial system.

Brown has a lengthy rap sheet, and a woman believed to be his sister has claimed he has never received proper help for his mental conditions.

‘This could have been anyone riding the light rail that night.’

Speaking through an attorney, Zarutska’s family decided to speak out on Tuesday about the awful incident.

“We are heartbroken beyond words. Iryna came here to find peace and safety, and instead her life was stolen from her in the most horrific way,” the family said, according to WSOC-TV‘s Hunter Saenz. “No family should have to go through this.”

“This could have been anyone riding the light rail that night,” Saenz said the family also expressed. “We are committed to making sure this never happens again.”

Adding to the tragic evening was the way the Zarutska family became aware of the victim’s death.

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The family stated that on the night in question, Zarutska texted her boyfriend that she was going to be home soon. Sadly, her family became worried when she did not get to her apartment at the “anticipated time.”

So the family checked Zarutska’s phone location, which showed her still at the train station. The family hurried to the station, but upon arrival, the attorney said, the family was “devastated to learn that Iryna had died at the scene.”

The family is also reportedly seeking changes to the way the Charlotte rail system is operated, pointing to what they believe to be failures that contributed to Zarutska’s death.

These included: “a lack of visible or effective security presence,” a failure in oversight in the contracts of professional security services, and an “absence of adequate safety measures that could have prevented this tragedy.”

RELATED: Charlotte stabbing suspect reportedly makes bizarre statements from jail: ‘The material used in my body stabbed the lady’

According to reporter Saenz, the family is also calling on Charlotte city officials to “publicly address their failures and enact reform.”

They are also asking for full investigations by the responsible security teams, while hoping the public and media can “show restraint and compassion” by not further spreading the footage of the tragic killing.

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The Carolina Panthers football team has fired a public relations employee over his comments about Charlie Kirk.

Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday during a campus tour stop in Utah. Videos showed Kirk was shot in the neck in front of a large crowd of college students and attendees.

Despite an outpouring of positive support after the horrific killing, many people have taken the opportunity to criticize or insult Kirk online, including a Panthers employee.

‘We do not condone violence of any kind.’

As reported by the Athletic, a communications coordinator named Charlie Rock was fired by the Panthers for his online commentary about the deceased conservative activist.

Rock apparently joined the organization as an intern in 2024 and was promoted to his now-former position.

Social media posts circulating online showed screenshots from Rock’s Instagram account (which is now inactive), on which he posted a video of Kirk at a speaking event with the caption, “Why are yall sad? Your man said it was worth it …” referring to Kirk’s death.

Rock’s next post was the song “Protect Ya Neck” by Wu-Tang Clan, which could easily be interpreted as referring to Kirk being shot in the neck.

RELATED: DC Comics immediately cancels new series after author mocks Charlie Kirk’s murder

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The Athletic was able to confirm that the employee is no longer with the Panthers, but Rock did not respond to the outlet’s request for comment.

The Panthers organization, on the other hand, released a general statement on Thursday morning without naming Rock.

“The views expressed by our employees are their own and do not represent those of the Carolina Panthers,” the team’s X post read. “We do not condone violence of any kind. We are taking this matter very seriously and have accordingly addressed it with the individual.”

RELATED: New York Yankees waste no time before honoring Charlie Kirk

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“Pro Football Talk’s” Mike Florio shared the story and wrote, “In a civil society, we have disagreements. Those disagreements, however sharp and strong they might be, should never devolve into violence.”

Florio added, “There is no room in the American experiment for political violence. For any type of violence. Violence should be condemned in all forms, by everyone.”

The Panthers’ next game is against the Arizona Cardinals. The teams play Sunday at 4:05 p.m. ET at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

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Yesterday, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was fatally shot while hosting a speaking event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Charlie, only 31 years old, leaves behind his devoted wife, two young children, a powerful organization that reshaped the conservative movement, and a grieving nation already feeling the profound void of his absence.

When she heard the horrible news of Charlie’s death, Allie Beth Stuckey, BlazeTV host of “Relatable,” canceled her regular programming to both honor and reflect on the time she shared with one of the most transformative torchbearers in conservative America.

In 2017, when Allie was just entering the world of politics, Charlie Kirk — a rising star in the conservative movement — invited her to speak at Turning Point USA’s second annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit.

Fast-forward two years later, and Allie was asked to help plan and host the event. Even though she was due with her baby around the same time the summit would take place, she agreed to help because it was Charlie who was asking.

“I knew that if Charlie was leading it, then no matter what, that it was worth doing,” she says with tears in her eyes.

“I am one of thousands of people who can say that Charlie believed in me. He platformed me. He helped shape me long before I had done anything impressive,” she says.

Unlike most people in politics, who are kind only if it gets them something in return, Charlie was genuinely kind — and not just to the people he liked and knew well. His graciousness extended to those who hated him and called him their enemy — and was perhaps even greater.

“I almost wrote that Charlie treated everyone the same … [but] I realized that is not true. He was loving toward his friends, but he went out of his way to show even more grace to the people that considered themselves his enemies,” says Allie.

In 2022, Allie recalls doing a joint speaking engagement with Charlie at Auburn University. One hostile student stormed up to the mic and accused Charlie of being racist for calling out crime and fatherlessness in the black community.

“And he responded to her — I remember I got to watch this up close in true Charlie fashion — with precision, with boldness, but most of all with gentleness,” says Allie.

“For 13 years, Charlie worked with all kinds of people — from high school students, college volunteers, thousands of employees to the most powerful people in media and government. And I have not met one person who has ever had anything negative to say about Charlie Kirk,” she continues.

The magic of Charlie lay not in his brilliance, his leadership qualities, or his visionary mindset — although these qualities were certainly profound in him — but “because very simply, he was a good friend.”

Charlie embodied what it means to “share the arrows,” says Allie.

“If someone said something true, and they were taking flak for it, no matter their political affiliation, Charlie was the first in their inbox cheering them on,” she says.

“If you are a college student who is getting bullied for saying something true in class, Charlie would find a way. He would exhaust his network to find a way to reach you and to encourage you. If you were a politician running for office and you were getting raked over the coals, Charlie would go to bat for you.”

As an example, Allie points to her joint segment with Charlie on Fox News last month. They talked about the rise in Christian music, highlighting the work of Forrest Frank, who’s become a transformative voice in contemporary Christian culture.

Frank reposted their segment to his social media page and was hit with furious backlash from people who maligned Allie and Charlie — “but especially Charlie.”

“So what did Charlie do? He reached out to Forrest, not to defend himself, but just to encourage him — to tell Forrest that he’s doing a great job and that he’s cheering him on,” says Allie.

She also recalls the memory of speaking with Charlie at a megachurch in Phoenix, Arizona.

“We got to do what Charlie really loved more than debates, more than campaigning, and that was [defending] the faith. His knowledge of the Bible, his relentless passion for truth just absolutely overflowed into everything,” says Allie.

“I know if I could have texted Charlie this morning and asked him, ‘Hey, Charlie, I’ve got this really tough subject to talk about today, what do you think about it?’ … I know exactly what he’d tell me,” she says. “He would just have said, ‘Jesus — that’s it. Just point them to Jesus.”

To hear Allie’s full tribute, watch the video above.

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I’ve only felt this weight once before. It was 2001, just as my radio show was about to begin. The World Trade Center fell, and I was called to speak immediately. I spent the day and night by my bedside, praying for words that could meet the moment.

Yesterday, I found myself in the same position. September 11, 2025. The assassination of Charlie Kirk. A friend. A warrior for truth.

Out of this tragedy, the tyrant dies, but the martyr’s influence begins.

Moments like this make words feel inadequate. Yet sometimes, words from another time speak directly to our own. In 1947, Dylan Thomas, watching his father slip toward death, penned lines that now resonate far beyond his own grief:

Do not go gentle into that good night. / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Thomas was pleading for his father to resist the impending darkness of death. But those words have become a mandate for all of us: Do not surrender. Do not bow to shadows. Even when the battle feels unwinnable.

Charlie Kirk lived that mandate. He knew the cost of speaking unpopular truths. He knew the fury of those who sought to silence him. And yet he pressed on. In his life, he embodied a defiance rooted not in anger, but in principle.

Picking up his torch

Washington, Jefferson, Adams — our history was started by men who raged against an empire, knowing the gallows might await. Lincoln raged against slavery. Martin Luther King Jr. raged against segregation. Every generation faces a call to resist surrender.

It is our turn. Charlie’s violent death feels like a knockout punch. Yet if his life meant anything, it means this: Silence in the face of darkness is not an option.

He did not go gently. He spoke. He challenged. He stood. And now, the mantle falls to us. To me. To you. To every American.

We cannot drift into the shadows. We cannot sit quietly while freedom fades. This is our moment to rage — not with hatred, not with vengeance, but with courage. Rage against lies, against apathy, against the despair that tells us to do nothing. Because there is always something you can do.

Even small acts — defiance, faith, kindness — are light in the darkness. Reaching out to those who mourn. Speaking truth in a world drowning in deceit. These are the flames that hold back the night. Charlie carried that torch. He laid it down yesterday. It is ours to pick up.

The light may dim, but it always does before dawn. Commit today: I will not sleep as freedom fades. I will not retreat as darkness encroaches. I will not be silent as evil forces claim dominion. I have no king but Christ. And I know whom I serve, as did Charlie.

Two turning points, decades apart

On Wednesday, the world changed again. Two tragedies, separated by decades, bound by the same question: Who are we? Is this worth saving? What kind of people will we choose to be?

Imagine a world where more of us choose to be peacemakers. Not passive, not silent, but builders of bridges where others erect walls. Respect and listening transform even the bitterest of foes. Charlie Kirk embodied this principle.

He did not strike the weak; he challenged the powerful. He reached across divides of politics, culture, and faith. He changed hearts. He sparked healing. And healing is what our nation needs.

At the center of all this is one truth: Every person is a child of God, deserving of dignity. Change will not happen in Washington or on social media. It begins at home, where loneliness and isolation threaten our souls. Family is the antidote. Imperfect, yes — but still the strongest source of stability and meaning.

RELATED: Trump to award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom: ‘A giant of his generation’

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Forgiveness, fidelity, faithfulness, and honor are not dusty words. They are the foundation of civilization. Strong families produce strong citizens. And today, Charlie’s family mourns. They must become our family too. We must stand as guardians of his legacy, shining examples of the courage he lived by.

A time for courage

I knew Charlie. I know how he would want us to respond: Multiply his courage. Out of this tragedy, the tyrant dies, but the martyr’s influence begins. Out of darkness, great and glorious things will sprout — but we must be worthy of them.

Charlie Kirk lived defiantly. He stood in truth. He changed the world. And now, his torch is in our hands. Rage, not in violence, but in unwavering pursuit of truth and goodness. Rage against the dying of the light.

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Republican Vice President JD Vance helped carry the casket of Charlie Kirk onto Air Force Two on Thursday evening as they made the trip from Utah to Arizona.

The vice president’s family is accompanying the friends and family of Kirk on the plane as it returns the remains to Phoenix. Kirk was the CEO and founder of Turning Point USA, which is headquartered in Phoenix.

‘He exemplified a foundational virtue of our Republic: the willingness to speak openly and debate ideas.’

Vance had previously posted about the death of his friend on social media.

“Someone else pointed out that Charlie died doing what he loved: discussing ideas. He would go into these hostile crowds and answer their questions,” he wrote.

“If it was a friendly crowd, and a progressive asked a question to jeers from the audience, he’d encourage his fans to calm down and let everyone speak,” he continued. “He exemplified a foundational virtue of our Republic: the willingness to speak openly and debate ideas.”

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is assisting local law enforcement in the massive manhunt for the shooter. They were able to recover a rifle believed to be the weapon used to kill Kirk.

RELATED: Charlie Kirk assassination timeline: What we know so far

Kirk was shot while debating with students at his national campus tour at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. He was later pronounced dead, and law enforcement authorities have been on the hunt for the shooter since then.

The Turning Point USA CEO and founder was only 31 years and is survived by a wife and two children.

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Charlie Kirk was only 31 years old when he was taken from this Earth, but his time here has undoubtedly left a lasting imprint on not just the nation’s youth — whom he was dedicated to reaching — but all Americans.

Blaze News editor in chief and BlazeTV host Matthew Peterson, BlazeTV host Jill Savage, and Blaze Media Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford are devastated by the tragic loss.

“Charlie Kirk built an organization and helped build a movement that ultimately propelled him to the very heights of American politics,” Peterson says on “Blaze News: The Mandate.”

“And what we saw today was unspeakable evil, really, a political assassination of someone who was a political leader. This was someone who is a bright light, who I first met at the Claremont Institute’s Lincoln Fellowships,” he continues.

But Charlie wasn’t your average leader.

“Famously, Charlie didn’t go to college. Incredibly smart guy. He sought out wisdom. He sought out knowledge. He was a very sharp student, and he constantly adjusted and changed when he learned new things or saw new things as he was building and helping to make America great,” Peterson says.

“He was an incredible, incredible human being who never stopped doing, who never stopped learning, and who never stopped building,” he says, adding, “And ultimately I think that what he wanted to be was a statesman. … This is what he wanted to become: an American statesman who changed things for the good. And that is what he did.”

Bedford agrees, though he notes that there was “a strange side” of Charlie that he “didn’t expect.”

“Sweetness. Humility, which really surprised me. Soft-spoken, kind. He had taken personal interests in people. You knew him through Claremont. I knew him through some hunting and fishing trips that our late friend Foster Friess put together and then later on through podcasts and events,” he explains.

While Bedford recalls that the events were “big, glitzy, glamorous, shiny, light-filled things with all kinds of celebrities,” he says Charlie “was not like that.”

“Not in person. Someone who’s married, someone with two children,” he says.

And Bedford has noticed that Charlie’s passing has stirred something in Americans, regardless of how political they are.

“One woman I know, who’s not — she just follows politics tangentially, one of my friends’ wives, she texted me and said, ‘I’m feeling really delicate right now. Not delicate like a flower, delicate like a bomb,’” he says.

“They’ve just killed a cultural figure,” he continues. “Not a politician, not a businessman, but a cultural figure who touched a lot of lives and was in a lot of living rooms with people and was on their personal devices and was on their Instagram feeds and TikToks and came into their classrooms and talked to them on campus and touched a lot of people.”

Peterson couldn’t agree more with Bedford’s friend’s wife, commenting, “Delicate like a bomb is right.”

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Several University of Texas at Austin students disgustingly celebrated the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

‘People were very confrontational, stating that he had gotten what he deserved.’

Voz Media interviewed roughly a dozen students at the university on Wednesday, moments after a shooter struck Kirk, and their responses to the atrocious event were shocking.

When asked to explain how they felt about the shooting, multiple students answered that they were pleased.

“Did you see that Charlie Kirk just got shot and killed?” the interviewer asked.

“That’s good,” one student responded.

“Girl, someone had to do it,” a second student replied. “That’s how I feel at this point in time.”

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A third called Kirk “a misogynist” and “a disgusting person with disgusting beliefs.”

When asked whether she would press a “magical button” that could undo his murder if she could, she responded, “No, I think things happen for a purpose. If that’s how his life was ended, then that’s how it was ended.”

Another student called Kirk “a f**king asshole.”

Only one student expressed sadness about Kirk’s assassination.

“I think the left has spewed so much hate and brainwashed so many people into doing stupid s**t like this,” he said. “But they’re going to flip it and say, ‘Oh, he was so hateful, and he spewed all this hatred.'”

“I’ve already seen people saying he deserved it,” he continued. “It’s a sign of, I think, what liberalism has done to U.S. society. It’s just led to a complete moral decay … and any semblance of humanity.”

RELATED: ‘You’re all guilty of this’: How media lies fueled the murder of Charlie Kirk

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Francesco Kappa with Voz Media told Blaze News, “It is with extreme discontent and sadness and disappointment that I tell you right here, right now, that most people were unbothered by [the fatal shooting].”

“Most people were happy that it took place. People were very confrontational, stating that he had gotten what he deserved. We were shocked by the overwhelming, joyful response to such a heinous act by the students at UT,” he continued, adding that some of their replies showed “true evil.”

Kappa noted that they interviewed between nine and 15 people, only one of whom expressed sadness for the tragic attack.

“It was very fresh, and they spoke their true feelings,” Kappa said.

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Ruth Marshall is an associate professor for the study of religion and political science at the University of Toronto. She was among the many leftists who evidently figured the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday was a good thing. Marshall actually went a step further than some radicals, suggesting the fatal shooting of the unarmed father of two was not brutal enough.

Marshall — a radical who has spent well over a decade yammering about post-colonialism, the limits of liberalism, and religious violence — wrote in an X post just hours after the Turning Point USA founder was fatally shot while attempting to engage in spirited debate on a university campus, “Shooting is honestly too good for so many of you fascist c**ts.”

RELATED: New York Times continues SPLC demonization of Charlie Kirk, accuses him of provocation

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford told the Toronto Sun on Thursday, “That is disgusting.”

“Sick people,” the premier added.

Hours after Blaze News pressed the university and its chancellor for comment on Marshall’s vile remarks, a spokesperson responded, stating, “The university took immediate action upon learning of the concerning social media posts of a University of Toronto professor. The faculty member is now on leave and not on campus.”

It should be noted that being put on leave is not the same as being terminated.

“The matter is being looked into, and the University will not be commenting further,” the spokesperson added.

The Toronto Sun’s Brian Lilley claimed that Marshall, whose banner image on X signals her support for so-called decolonization in both Canada and the Middle East, recently called his publication a fascist organization and implored other radicals to shut it down.

Marshall did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment by deadline.

Other callous academics came out of the woodwork in the immediate aftermath of Kirk’s death, signaling their tolerance for slaughtering people who hold differing viewpoints.

Joseph Derosier, a professor of international studies at Beloit College in Wisconsin who writes about queer theory, appears to be among them. Derosier allegedly shared a video to social media of an atheist gleefully suggesting that the fatal wounding of Kirk in the neck brought him 1% closer to believing in God.

Blaze News has reached out both to Derosier and Beloit College for comment.

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The 71-year-old Utah man detained immediately after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is a well-known local gadfly who has “no current ties to the shooting,” according to the Utah Department of Public Safety.

Video of George Hodgson Zinn surrounded by police went viral on social media, with active speculation that the septuagenarian was the gunman who shot Kirk, but that story wilted fast once police identified and interviewed Zinn.

‘Who needs guns when robbery is occurring with a sweet smile on the faces of the employees?’

“We initially took in George Zinn as a suspect. He was later released and charged with obstruction by UVU police,” the UDPS said in a statement. “A second suspect, Zachariah Qureshi, was taken into custody and released after interrogation with law enforcement. There are no current ties to the shooting with either of these individuals.”

Zinn was filmed being dragged away by police as members of the crowd screamed, “How dare you!” and called him a “f**king monster.” He looked at protesters screaming at him and shouted back, “Shoot me! Shoot me!”

Zinn’s pants fell around his ankles, and police then had to carry him away from the scene. A police officer can be heard on the video saying, “He said he shot him, but I don’t know.”

RELATED: Charlie Kirk assassination timeline: What we know so far

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Zinn is well known to police and many in the Salt Lake City area for being an often-unwanted presence at entertainment and political events. Online records indicate that he has nearly two dozen arrests dating back at least 25 years for criminal trespass, obstruction, disturbing the peace, and other charges.

His most serious offense came in 2013, when he was charged with sending an email bomb threat to the Salt Lake City Marathon.

Zinn pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for making a bomb threat. He was originally charged with a second-degree felony. He was sentenced to probation but violated probation terms. As a result he spent some time in jail, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

The Salt Lake Tribune described Zinn as an “occasionally ubiquitous activist,” noting that he is a regular figure at political rallies, ribbon-cutting ceremonies, and even the Sundance Film Festival.

A Florida newspaper spotted him at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, peddling what the paper considered “baseless” 2020 presidential election-fraud claims.

Zinn is a regular contributor to newspaper opinion pages. In August 2000, he complained to the Daily Utah Chronicle about price-gouging on food items sold on campus. “Who needs guns when robbery is occurring with a sweet smile on the faces of the employees as they empty our wallets for a few cheap items and rotten service?” he wrote.

In July 2019, Zinn joined protesters half his age at the Utah Inland Port Authority. The protesters were forced from the building, leading to “violent confrontations that included punches being thrown during clashes with police,” a newspaper report stated.

Zinn joined a crowd of 1,000 at the University of Utah in January 2009 to welcome newly inaugurated President Barack Obama.

“Why not? He’s our new president, and I’m glad he’s coming in with that level of support,” the Republican Zinn told the Daily Herald.

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