Interview · moment 15 of 15
The Hypothetical: How Dangerous Was Kirk's Turn Against Israel?
from The Silencing Of Charlie Kirk | The Tim Dillon Show #461 · #461
5 min
Guest
Tim poses a hypothetical about how far Israel-aligned figures would go to stop Kirk's drift toward criticizing Israel; Blumenthal points to Ben Shapiro's public attacks on Kirk just before the shooting and closes by teasing more reporting to come.
- Tim introduces the story about Charlie Kirk's background and the pressure he was under as revealing Israeli influence in the United States.
- In a hypothetical scenario, Tim asks how dangerous a campus organization leader like Kirk would be if he turned against Israel.
- Guest responds that Kirk would have been eliminated politically, not physically, if he had continued giving voice to grassroots critics of Israel.
- Ben Shapiro called for removing Kirk from leadership days before Kirk was killed, then pivoted to leading campus tours himself.
- Guest characterizes Kirk as a gigantic threat to Israeli control over the Republican Party, possibly the biggest since Trump proved easy to manipulate.
Charlie KirkBen ShapiroDonald TrumpIsraelMax BlumenthalBenjamin Netanyahu