What We Know About The Charlie Kirk Assassination And The Free Speech Fallout
The shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk has left the conservative movement grieving—and asking deeper questions about the hatred that fuels political violence. In this episode, Todd walks through what is known about the alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, and the disturbing details uncovered about his life, ideology, and online radicalization. From antifascist anthems scrawled on bullets to nihilistic memes, the picture reveals more than one unstable young man—it reflects decades of cultural dehumanization, from abortion to COVID-era isolation.
Todd also tackles the online fallout: some social media users are digging up accounts that celebrated Kirk’s murder and alerting their employers. Is that justice—or a right-wing version of cancel culture? Todd weighs both sides, asking whether accountability can coexist with free speech without sliding into hypocrisy.
At its core, this tragedy reminds us why Charlie Kirk’s message mattered: he boldly proclaimed the hope of Jesus Christ. And that truth, Todd argues, is the only lasting antidote to nihilism, rage, and despair.
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“Hey, fascist. Catch!”: Messages written on bullet casings in Charlie Kirk shooting — NBC Chicago
Pilots, Teachers, Professors Face Losing Jobs Over Posts After Charlie Kirk’s Death — Newsweek
Charlie Kirk shooting suspect: details of messages and gun casings emerge — The Guardian
Charlie Kirk critics are losing their jobs for online comments made after his death — France24
Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting — The Guardian
📝 Transcript: What We Know About The Charlie Kirk Assassination And The Free Speech Fallout
Todd Huff Show – September 15, 2025
Todd: Well, that is right, my friends. You have successfully and very wisely, I might add, tuned into America's home for conservative, not bitter, talk. I'm your host. The one. The only, the ever so beloved. Benevolent dictator here behind the microphone. Todd Huff.
It is good to be here today. I hope you had a great weekend as well. We had a nice weekend, my friends, I'll tell you. Here off the top. We will be out Friday and next week. I think I'll be returning late next Friday or, excuse me, late next week. Probably the following Friday, but I will be out for about a week.
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All right, today, what do I want to get to? I want to talk about what we know about the alleged shooter, assassin of Charlie Kirk. I want to talk about some of the information we have found out. Just about him. Some of the evidence that exists. Some of the narratives, the storylines and so forth.
I also want to talk a little bit as the program unfolds about something that's happening on social media, you might have seen this, and I want your thoughts on this. I want your opinions on this.
There's several people who are going online who are looking for people who cheered the murder, the assassination of Charlie Kirk. And they are finding out who these people are. They're not doxxing them in the sense that they're providing their personal information. In fact, they're making it abundantly clear they don't want to see any harm before these individuals.
Instead, what they're doing is they're tracking down where these people are working and they're sharing these videos, these posts with the employers. These individuals. A lot of these folks have been fired, or some of them are, in the case of being a public teacher, for example, some of them have been put on administrative leave, paid leave, that sort of thing.
So I've got that to talk about. Free speech. Listen, there's a lot to get to with this issue. And I want to make sure that we don't forget what's initiated this entire discussion here because at its core we have the heinous, vile, wicked, evil assassination of a young man who was sharing his viewpoints, his opinion, sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ as well.
He's being maligned. He, of course, was murdered, and there's been a lot of disrespect and just reprehensible things said about his wife and his children. That's what started all of this. And of course, this goes back. This goes back. This didn't start last week. That heinous event happened last week.
But what fuels this? The hatred that has been spewed. The things that people have been taught and believed—that goes way, way back into our culture here. This has been going on for decades. This, again, just didn't happen last week.
So I want to talk about this, provide a little perspective here. And before I do that, my friends, you know, one of the biggest challenges that we as conservative have is finding ways to ensure our values are aligned with the things that we do, and that includes how we invest our money.
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All right, let's talk a little bit here. Let's talk a little bit here about what we have learned. Excuse me. About the assassination, about the shooter.
The shooter's name again. I don't like to do this. In fact, if you've listened to this program for any length of time, you will know when there are these heinous acts of violence, school shootings, mass murders, things like that, and people have manifestos and that sort of thing, you'll find that I don't like to say the names of these folks because as part of what they like is the attention of the limelight.
That being said, I'm going to say the name once here. If I say it again, it will just be in passing. I don't want to give this lunatic, alleged lunatic, an idiot here, perpetrator of evil, any more attention and glory than he's already gotten here, even. Of course, it's completely again. It's been completely turned upon its head. What is good here? But he's getting attention, which, of course, has to be part of this.
But Tyler Robinson is his name. He's 22 years old, from Utah. He was arrested after a 33-hour manhunt, and according to reports, he's currently not cooperating, I should say, with investigators. His dad turned him in after recognizing the photos. Family and friends are cooperating. In fact, some media reports have some information from family and friends.
This individual, this alleged gunman, was apparently, according to reports, once a top student, had a high GPA, did well in school. Dropped out of Utah State and is now an apprentice, an electrical apprentice, again, according to reports.
He personally has no party affiliation, political party affiliation. He's an inactive voter, according again to reports. His parents, as you may have heard, are Republicans, are conservative Republicans. But it appears that there is a major divergence in ideology between the shooter and his family.
So. It's also been reported that this alleged gunman, this alleged assassin, has been living with a transgender partner, a trans woman.
Listen, this will upset some people, but it's the easiest way. I did this with a relative of mine. You have older relatives who grew up in a world where there were boys and girls as there are. And they start hearing transist and cis that they don't know anything.
I didn't know any of this. I had to learn just to discuss it with people who have this warped worldview. But anytime I think the simple explanation or the simple way of remembering this transgender culture, the nomenclature and the terms and so forth, anytime you hear the word trans, just put—and this is going to upset some people, I'm not trying to be provocative.
I'm trying to provide something that is absolutely true and easy to remember. When you hear the word trans, just think fake. Just think fake. Fictitious. Think make believe. So when you hear a trans woman, it's a fake woman, which means he's biologically a man.
So this alleged gunman's partner is a trans woman. Meaning he's a biological male who is trying to become a female, which, of course, is genetically impossible. It contradicts nature and nature's God. The way that creation and the order of creation was made.
Again, just for the record. I don't have hard feelings. I don't want to heap insult or injury upon people who struggle with these things. But I also don't want to normalize them. I also don't want to have a world where I have to explain to my children things that are incredibly simple to understand. Until the world gets them and twists them and then demands that if you don't view them the way that the world views them in this very twisted and distorted way, that you're the problem.
Truth actually matters. Science actually matters. God's design actually matters. And so that's the world that this alleged shooter was living in.
Which is evidence that he's rebelling or has an opposite worldview of his parents. And then it's clear to say at this point that this guy wasn't living as a conservative person. That seems pretty obvious to me.
There's evidence here that he was involved. There's evidence in Discord chats. There's a digital trail. They're still piecing together the motive, but it's clear that he didn't like, he hated what Charlie Kirk stood for and what he said.
Todd: Welcome back, my friends. Segment two of today's program. It's good to be here. Talking about some heavy things. Trying to piece together really what was going on in the heart and mind of the shooter when he assassinated Charlie Kirk last week.
By the way, I would have mentioned this. I got a message on our Facebook page. I'm unoffendable. I think I am. There's things that get me fired up. But I think I'm unoffendable. You have to be in this line of work. You have to be if you want to have any online presence today. And talk about politics, culture, faith. You want to have a podcast, radio show? If you just want to stand up for truth. Have a blog, whatever. You better have some thick skin or at least a trust in the one whose opinion you care about—God Almighty—more than you care about what other people think.
But I had someone comment and I just thought it was peculiar. It's just fascinating to me. So on Facebook now, we haven't done this in a while. We're kind of revamping and rebuilding the ways that we've had so many problems on social media. Shadow banned in some places. I mean, we got never fully canceled, but we had plenty of YouTube videos taken down. That's why you'll only find clips on there now and not the full program. There's just a lot of stuff that goes on with that, and it's a priority, but not my top priority at the moment.
But we're trying. The way that we connect with people online. It's not bad. I prefer this podcast platform. I prefer communicating through email, like when folks subscribe or message us on the email newsletter. I like that more so than social media. But your reach is, of course, amplified dramatically, and there's a lot of good people that you can meet out there and I love that.
But I had a guy, so we started posting on Facebook. A summary of the day's program, a link to the stack of stuff which, of course, you know about if you listen to this program, which has a link to listen to the show, it's got articles that you can reference that just kind of background as to what we might have been talking about on the day's program. It has a full transcript of the show.
Some people prefer to read that. It's AI generated so this program is being transcribed right now with an AI—well, just a recording program. It transcribes the audio into text. And then we try to clean it with additional AI. But the bottom line is it's not going to be 100% correct. It's very high. It's 95, 97%. I believe. Anyway, so those are the sorts of things we post on the website, and we just basically put it out there every day. If you want to click and listen to the show. If you can't listen on it as a podcast. Or some people just prefer that method of communication.
And one of these individuals made a response that said that we were grifting off of Charlie Kirk, which, listen. I don't care if someone makes a comment like that. I think pretty lowly of them as a person. But you can ask a question, man, why are you doing this? If you have a genuine question. But to make a statement about me—you haven't listened to the program. You want to sound like a tough guy on the Internet, I don't care. And your comment is just meaningless to me. But it also. I don't know what people expect.
Grifting, basically. Meaning you're trying to profit off. That's not the case. What did people expect? I talk about politics and culture and faith on this program every day for ten years. I talked about the passing of Rush Limbaugh, which was incredibly difficult program for me. We still refer to things. We call it the stack. In memory of him. Every Thanksgiving we do a program. That's something Rush did—the true story, the real story of Thanksgiving, and we'll do that again this year.
It's not to steal his thunder. In fact, I reference on the program. This is in honor of him. You can have any opinion you want about that. Have at it. But to make a demonstrative claim, a truth claim that I'm doing it for some nefarious purposes other than just—I want to recognize and remember the people who have had an impact in this movement.
And there's some things that I've actually been thinking about implementing into the program or some of the stuff we do on social media that I think Charlie Kirk did incredibly well, not because I'm trying to profit off of what he did, but because I'm trying to do two things. One, if something works well, then we should probably try to emulate it. And he should get the credit for that. He did some things incredibly well. Number one.
Number two, it keeps his honor and memory alive. I mean, I think that it's important that we remember the people who have taken great steps to save this nation. And Charlie Kirk did that. I don't know what people expect. I don't have any interest in ignoring this. Should that have been the course of action? See, to me, that would have seemed more like I was self-absorbed if I just ignored the story. What type of a person does that?
Anyway, if you make comments like that and you want to be taken seriously, don't make them on our page. Anyway. But let's get to—I told you we were going to talk about this Bella Ciao, which is an anthem. It's an anthem that was World War II partisan anthem against Mussolini and Nazis, which, of course, in today's world, you have to say because you're told by the left every day—people who have PhD tacked onto their name—that Trump is a Nazi. And if you don't see that, you're just an idiot.
You're too stupid. Let the smart people tell you and you ask them why. Explain to me why. Well, they can't tell you. But if they can't tell you why, it's because you're too stupid to understand. This is how these clowns operate—the opposite of how I operate. I think if I can't explain something clearly enough, I didn't do my job. They think if you don't agree wholeheartedly with them, you're the idiot.
They're never the problem. It's absolutely backwards and upside down. If you can't communicate your idea clearly, if you can't break it down to the simplest level, if you can't put the cookies, so to speak, on the bottom shelf, then something's wrong with your idea. If it can't be broken down into something that's simple. I mean, outside of, like, theoretical physics or something.
But really, the more you understand it, a topic or an issue, the easier it is to explain in simple terms that everybody can understand, and that should be the objective. But it's not the objective because they don't want you to understand. Because it's not built on truth, so it doesn't make any sense. And so then the only way that they can save face is to basically say, look, I got a PhD on the end of my name. You don't. You're an idiot. You're just a laborer that works with your hands.
That's how they look at folks. I'm telling you right now, that's how they look at folks. And so in today's world, they—I'm talking about the elitist left. Leftists. Many times they're professors, sometimes they're public school teachers, sometimes they're leftists. They have jobs where they have agenda studies, degree, that sort of stuff.
Anyway, so Bella Ciao. Bella Ciao was an anthem in World War II, antifascist. It's since then become a global protest anthem. And there was a Netflix program called Money Heist, where this was basically, I guess, reintroduced to pop culture. So the maniacal, lunatic shooter, the evildoer, the alleged shooter engraved some—I told you—that he referenced Bella Ciao on here.
I want to read you the English translated versions of Bella Ciao.
“One morning I awakened, oh Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao Ciao Ciao. One morning I awakened and I found the invader. Oh partisan, take me with you, oh Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao Ciao Ciao. Oh partisan, take me with you, for I feel death approaching. And if I die as a partisan, oh Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao Ciao Ciao. And if I die as a partisan, then you must bury me.
Bury me up in the mountain, oh Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao Ciao Ciao. Bury me up in the mountain under the shadow of a beautiful flower. And all those who shall pass by, oh Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao Ciao Ciao. And all those who shall pass by will say what a beautiful flower. This is the flower of the partisan, oh Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao Ciao Ciao. This is the flower of the partisan who died for freedom.”
So remember, he engraved Bella Ciao on the bullets. This is not just—I mean, there's deeper meaning here. There's deeper meaning that's pushed by these radicals. I mean, this again. I remember last week some lunatics trying to tell me that this guy was a conservative, that he shot Charlie Kirk, I guess because he was conservative.
Anyway, none of this stuff makes sense. They want to deny truth when it's staring them right in the face. But this is what this guy thinks. This guy thinks he's the martyr here. This guy thinks that he's dying for—well, he wasn't murdered. He wasn't killed and wouldn't have been murdered. He wasn't killed in the response to the shooting. He has been captured. He's not apparently cooperating, but he appears to think that he is fighting a greater battle.
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All right. So I mentioned off the top, there's one other thing I want to get to here today. Well, there's many other things I want to get to. I just don't have the time. But one other thing I want to get to today is something that I've seen on social media that's a bit of a phenomenon.
And after Charlie Kirk's assassination, his murder, his death, there were a lot of people—we've documented some of this here on this program, but we've documented some of this online. You've seen it probably yourself if you've been online. You've read them, if you've subscribed to our newsletter, because I put screenshots in there of those last week.
But after his death, there were people that were celebrating online, right? They were celebrating. I mean, mocking him, mockingly saying, thoughts and prayers. I mean, one of these ladies was some sort of a pastor at a church in southern California. I believe in San Diego. A pastor. It's incomprehensible to me.
By the way, if you go to church, be prepared. There are more and more people that are seeking roles in clergy, if you want to say it that way—inside of being a staff member, someone who's gone to seminary school, a minister, a pastor. Those sorts of things. I'm not saying all of them. Please don't misunderstand me. But there's a high percentage, a higher percentage of people who are trying to infiltrate the church that way and make church more woke and more, I guess, anti-God, which woe to those people who do that.
But we've got an obligation to prevent those people from having any position in our churches, but they exist out there. And listen, I get people are human. They make mistakes. But to have this level of hatred and to think that you're on the correct side of this. To think that you're doing the work of God Almighty by mocking the death of Charlie Kirk is unfathomable to me.
But there are people on social media now who are basically digging into these accounts because, look, you can have an account on social media that doesn't have to be—you don't have to prove who you are. There's anonymous, faceless cowards out there. And that's one thing you have to remember when you get so much hate from these folks. But there's anonymous, hateful cowards out there who are tough guys behind their keyboards.
Well, some of these people on social media are digging into who these folks are. They've got some pretty sophisticated ways of determining how to—what do I want to say? How to reveal these people. Not to dox them, but to take what they've been saying and to share that with their employers, to use that information, to dig and say, oh, this person lives here. Look, they've posted on another social media platform where they work.
I can confirm this is the person. I'm going to send this to their employer, and so they've done this. They've done this and they are getting people fired.
Free speech, my friends, protects you from censorship of the government. Free speech means the government can't shut you up. Free speech does not mean that there are no other consequences when you sign up. I looked into our local school's policy on social media because of some idiotic comment I got from a teacher, and I'll maybe share more about this over time.
We'll see. I don't know. There's so many things to talk about. But an idiotic comment from a public teacher here in our district who accused Trump of being a pedophile—not as an opinion. This is textbook defamation. Now, Trump is a public figure, so there's a different level of proof. You've got to prove malice and all this sort of stuff.
But the point here is that there's other consequences. Just because the government doesn't censor you doesn't mean that there can't be consequences for free speech. Your employer can certainly discipline you. Your employer can say that breaks our policy. I don't want people out there who are saying atrocious things and celebrating the death of another human being. What is wrong with people.
And they can discipline you, fire you, especially if you live in an at-will employment state. But that's what's going on. I'm curious, though, what your opinions are. Because I understand. I'm just trying to present both sides fairly here.
You got the one side who says, look, these people say this in a public forum. It's gross, it's reprehensible. It's a clear violation, in most cases, of most reasonable employers. They wouldn't want these sorts of people representing their company, and so they should absolutely know what these folks are out there saying. Because if they're saying these things in public, what are they doing internally in your business?
That's a real question I think that people should have and should ask. The other side is, man, is this really the path we want to go down? Is this becoming too—I don't know. Too much like a cancel culture. I'm just curious what your thoughts are, because I'm not entirely sure what I think about it. I do think it's justice that these folks are held accountable for what they're saying.
They're hiding behind nameless faceless accounts. Anyway, music's here telling me it's time to wrap up. I got to go, friends. Have a great day. Thanks for listening. SDG.
