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Mamdani and Democrats’ anti-Semitism problem

For the Democrat hard left, the good news is that Zohran Mamdani, a self-described “Democratic socialist” with a long history of what many consider antisemitism and anti-Israel activism, won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York. The bad news for the Democratic left is that he will likely win.

It’s no surprise that President Donald Trump is not popular in New York, where a New York City judge found him liable in a ridiculous business fraud case and where a Manhattan jury convicted him of an equally ridiculous criminal charge of election interference. A recent poll of New York state Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, Hispanic, black and white voters found Trump’s approval rating underwater with every racial, ethnic and religious group, except one.

According to a late June Siena College poll, with Catholic New York voters, Trump is at 50% disapproval and 49% approval; 79% of blacks disapprove and 19% approve; 67% of Hispanics disapprove and 26% approve; 51% of whites disapprove and 47% approve.

But with New York Jewish voters, 42% disapprove and 57% approve, up from the 46% New York Jewish vote Trump received in the November 2024 presidential election. What’s going on? Yes, socialism is increasingly popular with some Democrats who agree with Mamdani’s zany proposals such as freezing New York City rents and the public ownership of grocery stores. But, the Democrats have an antisemitism problem.

Democratic House members like Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar make incendiary comments about Jews and Israel with little or no pushback from Democratic leaders. New York’s Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez belongs to the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel Democratic Socialists of America, with a platform that supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement against Israel.

AOC and Sen. Bernie Sanders, a longtime DSA member who recently held a New York town hall with Mamdani, berate Democratic leaders like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for refusing to officially endorse Mamdani – so far, that is.

Sanders said, “I find it hard to understand how the major Democratic leaders in New York State are not supporting the Democratic candidate. … One might think that if a candidate starting at 2% in the polls, gets 50,000 volunteers, creates enormous excitement, gets young people involved in the political process, gets non-traditional voters to vote, Democratic leaders will be jumping up and down, ‘This is our guy!'”

But Schumer, as far back as his 2014 speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said: “Those who call for boycotts of Israel without calling for boycotts of other neighboring nations whose human rights records are in fact reprehensible are practicing, whether they know it or not, whether they admit it or not, a modern form of what we call anti-Semitism.” Can Schumer, with any shred of credibility, endorse the rabidly pro-BDS Mamdani?

During the campaign, Mamdani refused to denounce the offensive antisemitic slogan “globalize the intifada.” But, days ago, Mamdani did an interview with MSNBC host the Rev. Al Sharpton, never mind Sharpton’s own history of antisemitism. In a reversal, Mamdani told Sharpton he would now “discourage” the term “globalize the intifada.”

A few clarifying follow-up questions would have been helpful:

1. What about the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”? Would Mamdani also “discourage” that expression?

2. What about Mamdani’s long held support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanction against Israel, a movement Schumer calls “antisemitic”? Does Mamdani still consider BDS ” … a legitimate movement when you are seeking to find compliance with international law …”?

3. In the interview, Mamdani characterized Israel as engaging in the occupation of “Palestinian land.” But the United States State Department does not recognize “Palestine” as an independent state. Does Mamdani?

4. Does Mamdani still accuse Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza?

5. Does Mamdani still call Israel an “apartheid” state?

6. Does Mamdani believe Israel has a right to exist – as a Jewish state?

7. Does Mamdani consider Hamas, an organization calling for the destruction of Israel, a “Foreign Terrorist Organization,” as has the U.S. State Department since 1997?

8. Has Mamdani ever called on Hamas release all the Oct. 7 hostages?

Finally, AOC, Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani walk into a bar and shout, “Hey, drinks are on you!” That’s OK. A lot of New Yorkers are not laughing either.

A society paralyzed by the presence of evil

This week, most Americans were shocked by the images of Decarlos Brown Jr., a violent schizophrenic with a 14-count rap sheet, stabbing a young Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, to death on a Charlotte light rail commuter train. The video of the incident is absolutely horrifying: Brown, clad in a red hoodie, sits behind Zarutska; then, he rises, removing a knife from his pocket; he quickly leans forward and plunges the knife into Zarutska’s jugular vein repeatedly and then calmly walks away, blood dripping from the murder weapon; Zarutska, stunned and confused and terrified and in shock, raises her hands to her face and cries; she then gradually slumps over onto the floor, where her blood leaks into a pool at the door of the car; five people in the camera shot do absolutely nothing, as do many others in the carriage. As Zarutska bleeds out, nobody moves to help her for one minute and 35 seconds.

Certain incidents in American life prompt serious change.

This should be one of them.

First, the media. The incident happened on Aug. 22, but only broke into the news two weeks later – and even then, only became a subject of public furor thanks to the presence of social media: not a single legacy media outlet reported the story. It is obviously true that had the victim been black and the perpetrator white, the media would have turned the murder into the basis for yet another racial pseudo-reckoning over America’s supposed white supremacy. This incident remained anonymous for weeks because the legacy media believes that covering black-on-white violent crime – which is, statistically, far more common on a per capita basis than the opposite – somehow evidences racism. The opposite is true: Treating violent crime as a symptom of racial injustice is itself truly racist. Decarlos Brown did not murder Iryna Zarutska because of America’s history of racial injustice – and it does nothing but perpetuate racial injustice to suggest that he did. It wrongly suggests the inevitability of black-on-white crime, and shifts guilt from criminals to the innocent.

In truth, violent crime in America has little to do with racism and everything to do with how our society coddles criminals and abandons the mentally ill. Brown was allowed to walk free because of the pathetic viewpoint, expressed originally by the mayor of Charlotte, that “We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health.” But, of course, we can involuntarily commit our way out of violent schizophrenics threatening law-abiding citizens with deadly weapons, and we can ensure that repeat offenders spend the rest of their lives away from those law-abiding citizens. Only the misplaced empathy of the suicidal allows monsters like Brown to walk free.

And then, finally, there is the issue of the bystanders. In 1964, 28-year-old bartender Kitty Genovese was raped and stabbed to death outside her apartment building in Queens; The New York Times reported that 37 witnesses observed or heard what had happened and did virtually nothing. While that reporting was exaggerated, it led to serious research on the so-called “bystander effect,” the phenomenon whereby people tend to stand by and do nothing about acts of evil when in the presence of others. Perhaps that can help explain why nobody did anything about Brown’s violent actions, but it doesn’t explain why nobody tried to help Zarutska as she bled out. Instead, the attitude of most in the car seemed to be “mind my own business.” Many of those onboard simply kept scrolling on their phones.

And herein lies perhaps the deepest problem with American society as a whole: Many Americans are so alienated from each another that the simple sight of a young woman bleeding to death doesn’t draw action. And that is a soul-sickness. When, on the tape, one young black man rushes to help Zarutska, removing his shirt to try to stanch the bleeding, it’s a reminder that all of us can and should act in the face of evil – and that, in the absence of a state ready to protect its citizens, we must be prepared at all times. If the Zarutska slaying means anything, it means this: From the state level to the individual level, it’s time to come together to stop predators and protect the innocent.

Trump’s 18-0 winning streak at SCOTUS

No NFL team in the last 50 years has attained perfection without a loss, but this is Trump’s record in the U.S. Supreme Court: 18-0. His splendid solicitor general, John Sauer, has racked up 18 wins this year, in staying lower court decisions against Trump and thereby allowing the president to exercise the full “executive power” granted by Article II of the Constitution.

These victories have been on emergency applications to the Supreme Court, where it is difficult to obtain the Justices’ attention and even more challenging to prevail. Also called the “shadow docket,” these wins by Trump have come quickly, without oral argument, often by a 6-3 or greater margin.

Seven of these wins have been on deporting illegal aliens, five on firing unnecessary federal workers, four on terminating wasteful federal spending, one on ending transgender personnel in the military and one on stopping the epidemic of nationwide injunctions by district court judges.

On Monday, Chief Justice Roberts granted a stay to Trump, as requested by Sauer, of a D.C. Circuit ruling that had blocked Trump from removing a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. Despite being on the Court’s traditional summer vacation until it returns later this month, Roberts granted Trump’s request on the second business day after it was filed.

An even bigger victory for Trump came on Monday from the Supreme Court when it stayed a 9th Circuit ruling that had blocked Trump’s deportation campaign in Los Angeles County, where an estimated 10% of its 10 million residents are illegal. Justice Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence agreeing with Sauer’s argument that ethnicity can be relevant in deciding whether to investigate someone’s immigration status.

Kavanaugh explained that Supreme Court precedent and common sense allow “apparent ethnicity” to be a “relevant factor” to be considered by immigration officials, not alone but in conjunction with other relevant factors, in forming a “reasonable suspicion” sufficient to justify a so-called Terry stop. Further investigation is then required before arresting or deporting a suspect.

This does not mean that Hispanics or any other group can be deported based on their ethnicity, but merely that ethnicity can be one of several factors justifying further investigation. “Importantly, reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status,” Kavanaugh explained.

Indeed, a recent immigration raid occurred at a Hyundai electric vehicle plant in Georgia, where illegal aliens from South Korea were caught, identified and detained. Congress should investigate how hundreds of these Asian illegal aliens migrated here illegally.

The Hyundai raid also cast doubt on the premise that foreign car manufacturers are helping Americans by locating a few plants here. In this case, the manufacturing jobs were going to illegal aliens from the country of the foreign competitor.

Trump has been winning in federal appellate courts, too. On Monday a 2-1 Republican majority on a panel in the 4th Circuit ruled in favor of Trump on his authority “to lay off thousands of probationary employees across multiple federal agencies.” The Democrat on the panel dissented, in Maryland v. USDA.

Many more lawsuits against Trump are percolating through the federal court system on the road to ultimate review by the Supreme Court. There are signs that justices on the high court are growing impatient with the defiance by liberal lower court judges of precedents in favor of Trump, which has burdened the Supreme Court throughout these summer months to stay the anti-Trump decisions.

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, one of the less conservative justices, expressed his exasperation on Aug. 21 while the justices were on summer vacation:

“So this is now the third time in a matter of weeks this Court has had to intercede in a case squarely controlled by one of its precedents.

“All these interventions should have been unnecessary, but together they underscore a basic tenet of our judicial system: Whatever their own views, judges are duty-bound to respect the hierarchy of the federal court system created by the Constitution and Congress,” Gorsuch wrote while quoting precedent, in this victory for Trump in NIH v. American Public Health Association to allow him to terminate research grants.

After being forced to work all summer to block anti-Trump rulings by federal judges in district and appellate courts, mostly in the 1st and D.C. Circuits where liberals have forum-shopped their cases to obtain Democrat-appointed judges, the Supreme Court returns on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. Then it will hold its traditional “long conference” to dispose of hundreds of petitions for certiorari that accumulated while they were away.

The following week, the Supreme Court begins its oral arguments for its “2025 Term,” which will last until the end of June next year. Trump can expect to win many more reversals of flawed lower court rulings that liberal judges are rendering against him.

So, Jesus is returning Sept. 23, is He?

On Sept. 18, 2017, I posted an article titled, “Sorry to Tell You, But Jesus Is Not Returning on Sept. 23.” I could repost that same article today, word for word, and it would be just as relevant, as once again, some Christians are predicting the Lord’s return to rapture His church on that very day this year.

But it’s not because Sept. 23 itself carries any significance. It’s because of the belief that Jesus will return on Rosh HaShanah, the beginning of the Jewish New Year, called Trumpets in the Bible. And in both 2017 and 2025, Rosh HaShanah falls on Sept. 23.

That’s also why Edgar Whisenant, a former NASA engineer, pointed to Sept. 12, 1988, as the date for Jesus’ return in his now infamous book, “88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988.” That’s when Rosh HaShanah fell that year.

And that’s why, in July 2023, a wrote an article titled, “Enough with These Crazy Rapture Prophecies!”

That, too, could be reprinted verbatim today, and it would be just as relevant. When will we learn?

After all, Jesus plainly told us that no one knew the day or hour of His return. And while we should know the times and seasons (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11), we cannot know the specific day or hour (Matthew 24:36).

I have often heard this answer in response: “The Mishnah (Rosh Hashanah 2:6–7) describes how witnesses are interrogated by the Sanhedrin about sighting the new moon’s ‘horns’ (the thin crescent just before full darkness). If their testimonies align, the month is declared, and the festival begins the next day. However, if witnesses arrive late, are delayed by weather, or their accounts conflict, the start could be postponed by a day – leading to the phrase ‘no one knows the day or the hour’ as an idiomatic reference to this uncertainty.” That’s the argument.

Yet in all my research, as confirmed by rabbinic scholars I have checked with, I have found zero evidence that the phrase “no one knows the day or the hour” was an idiomatic way of speaking of the uncertainty of the beginning of Rosh HaShanah in the ancient Jewish world. And this means that when Jesus said that no one knows the day or the hour, He meant exactly what He said. No one knows.

Others would ask, “But can’t you make the argument that, just as the Spring Feasts pointed to the Lord’s first coming, the Fall Feasts point to His return?”

Absolutely, and I agree with that line of thinking.

Passover corresponds to His crucifixion; Firstfruits to His resurrection; and Pentecost (Shavuot) to the outpouring of the Spirit. In the same way, Rosh HaShanah (which is Trumpets in the Bible), corresponds to the Lord’s return with the blast of the trumpet (shofar), followed by the Day of Atonement (national cleansing for Israel) and Tabernacles (Sukkot), speaking of the nations of the world coming to worship the King in Jerusalem.

So it’s possible that Jesus may return one year at Trumpets. At the least, He will come back in prophetic fulfillment of that sacred time. (If you want to go deeper, read this.)

But the Bible tells us plainly that certain things must precede His coming, including the revealing of the antichrist (see 2 Thessalonians 2). And if you agree with me that the Bible does not teach a secret, pre-trib rapture, then it’s clear that He is not coming back this Sept. 23. Not a chance. (For the book I co-authored on the subject, see here.)

Some, however, would protest and say, “But then you’re guilty of saying that His coming is postponed, and He might just come when you’re not ready for Him. I would rather live ready.”

I certainly agree with living ready, but not because He could return at any moment, which I do not believe the Bible teaches. Instead, I live ready to meet the Lord for two reasons: 1) I love Him and want to please Him 24/7, and 2) any of us could die at any moment, and we should live ready to meet Him in death.

But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t long for His return. Of course we should!

How could we not long to see Him face to face, to be alive when He returns and establishes His kingdom and abolishes suffering? How could we not yearn to be changed in a moment of time into our new bodies, meeting Him in the air and accompanying Him down to earth? (See 1 Corinthians 13:12; Isaiah 25:6-8; 1 Corinthians 15:51-55; Philippians 3:20-21; 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17.)

We should long for His return with every fiber of our beings, living in the light of that glorious day (see 1 John 2:28-3:3). But let’s do so without useless date setting which has no basis in the Bible, trivializes the glory of that day, and causes confusion and even unbelief.

Surely we can do better than that.

Kamala Harris: Biden team didn’t understand her success ‘was important for him’

Ex-President Joe Biden, joined by ex-Vice President Kamala Harris (White House photo by Adam Schultz)

During The 2024 presidential race, the Democrats were in lockstep: Joe Biden was an amazing intellect capable of running the world’s most powerful country like no other. And Kamala Harris was right with him regarding work, duties, goals and accomplishments.

That was before the election.

Now it’s after, a catastrophic landslide loss, and according to Harris, Biden’s team didn’t support her and didn’t even understand that her doing well reflected on him.

According to the Biden entourage, Harris never was good at her job.

A commentary at Twitchy said, “It appears the Biden folks aren’t very happy about Kamala’s new bombshell book. To be clear, Joe probably has no idea what is going on or what is being said or even what planet he is on. Jill and the rest her team are mad.

“Basically, they are saying all she did was complain, did no work, and was incompetent. Sounds about right.”

The internal war is being documented on social media:

From Kamala’s book. As many predicted. pic.twitter.com/nht5xdcMnr

— Han (@_skywriting_) September 10, 2025

For example, Harris charges that, “None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well. That given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital. It would serve as a testament to his judgment in choosing me and reassurance that if something happened, the country was in good hands. My success was important for him. His team didn’t get it.”

She further blasted the Biden White House for failing to push back when she was criticized.

“The White House rarely pushed back with my actual resume: two terms elected D.A., top cop in the second-largest department of justice in the United States, senator representing one in eight Americans.

VERY interesting snippets from Kamala Harris’ book, 107 Days, released by The Atlantic, especially as it pertains to Joe Biden, his age and his team!! (1/3) pic.twitter.com/C3IOHn62TR

— Sapphire ️‍ (@PritzGOATNo1) September 10, 2025

She also claimed she had to “shoulder” the burden for the porous border, even though the issue had been “intractable for Democrats, and Republican administrations alike.”

She was, after all, appointed by Biden to be the border czar.

But President Donald Trump, on taking office and eliminating Biden’s pro-illegal alien agenda, reduce the illegal trafficking across the southern board to almost zero within just weeks.

The gloves are off. Kamala Harris rips Biden and his team in her new book.

Blames everyone but herself for her issues. pic.twitter.com/fBXqY1RpIm

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 10, 2025

The backlash wasn’t hard to predict:

Said one report, “Bidenworld explodes at Harris over the book excerpt after years of simmering tensions. ‘Vice President Harris was simply not good at the job,’ said one former Biden White House official. ‘She had basically zero substantive role in any of the administration’s key work streams, and instead would just dive bomb in for stilted photo ops that exposed how out of depth she was.’ Biden is ‘not the reason she struggled in office or tanked her 2019 [presidential] campaign,’ the ex-official said. ‘Or lost the 2024 campaign, for that matter. The independent variable there is the vice president, not Biden or his aides.'”

Harris, in fact, dropped out of the 2020 Democrat race without gaining a single delegate. She got no more in being crowned the Democrat candidate in 2024 because she was hand-picked by the party elites and party members never voted on her.

Twitchy’s opinion, “Basically, they are saying all she did was complain, did not work, and was incompetent. Sounds about right.”

Others blamed Harris’ own team while VP: She was known as someone who was extremely hard to work for, and her staff proved that with high turnover rates.

The commentary concluded: “So, he had dementia and she was incompetent. Sounds about right.”

A report at the Daily Mail documented how Biden insiders were spewing “venom” at Harris.

“The gloves are off in Biden world after former Vice President Kamala Harris released an excerpt from her new memoir, calling it ‘recklessness’ to let the octogenarian decide for himself whether to run for re-election,” the report said.

“This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision,” she said.

The report quoted a Biden “insider,” saying it was a “sloppy, sort of craven, relatively unsophisticated attempt at deflecting blame.”

Another accused her of “whining” about her failed presidential campaign.

Harris also complained that when Biden did drop out, after a disastrously failed debate with President Donald Trump, he didn’t mention her until almost nine minutes into the 11-minute speech.

New: Bidenworld explodes at Harris over the book excerpt after years of simmering tensions.
“Vice President Harris was simply not good at the job,” said one former Biden White House official. “She had basically zero substantive role in any of the administration’s key work…

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) September 11, 2025

Tucker Carlson, Neil Patel launch GiveSendGo for Kirk family

Charlie Kirk with his wife Erika and children

Commentator Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel have announced, online, that they have launched a fund to help the family of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist assassinated this week during a free speech event at a Utah school

“We met Charlie Kirk when he was 18, through our friend Foster Friess, and have known him well since. He was an amazing person. It’s hard to find the right words in a moment like this or to understand exactly what’s happened.

“But in the meantime we want to do everything we can for Charlie’s widow Erika and their two small children. We’ve set up a GiveSendGo page on their behalf and are seeding it with $1 million from Alp Pouch.

“The link is below,

“Every dollar will go to Charlie’s family at: givesendgo.com/inlovingmemoryofcharlie

https://t.co/UZm9FUs3Hj pic.twitter.com/5syaD1r6gh

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) September 11, 2025

Announcements were all online but had this been published in an old legacy broadsheet, before the ink would have been dry, the total already was at $1.3 million.

‘Pick up that blood-stained microphone’: Ben Shapiro vows to keep up campus appearances

Ben Shapiro (Video screenshot)

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro said he will continue touring on college campuses and will “not be deterred” by those who try to stop conservative voices.

Shapiro shut down rumors that he wouldn’t appear on college campuses following the death of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and vowed to continue fighting. He further promised that the conservative movement would carry on Kirk’s legacy.

“I will be coming to college campuses, many of them this year. So will we all, I’m sure, because we’re Americans and we’re not going to be deterred. Charlie’s voice is not silent. We’re gonna pick up that blood-stained microphone where Charlie left it. And to those who would intimidate, who would seek to stop us, who would seek to end free discussion, who would 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— you,” Shapiro began.

“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 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,” Shapiro continued.

An assassin killed Kirk by firing a bullet with a high-powered, bolt-action rifle from the roof of a building located 200 yards away. Authorities recovered the firearm in a wooded area and cartridges containing pro-transgender and pro-Antifa messages.

The FBI in Salt Lake City released photographs of the assailant and offered a $100,000 reward or any leads to his arrest. The assassin appears to be a young adult male wearing a black sweatshirt with an American flag, a cap and sunglasses.

Some left-wingers and Democrats have either celebrated Kirk’s death or shifted blame to President Donald Trump for the rise in political violence. Middle Tennessee State University fired its former assistant dean, Laura Sosh-Lightsy, on Wednesday after she stated on Facebook that she has “zero sympathy” for Kirk.

University of Michigan assistant professor Charles H.F. Davis wrote on X that Kirk’s assassination is a “solution” to “violent rhetoric spewed by empowered people.” MSNBC fired political analyst Matthew Dowd for suggesting that Kirk brought his assassination on himself through his so-called “hate speech.”

Trump announced on Thursday that he will award Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, while Vice President J.D. Vance arranged for Kirk’s casket to be flown on Air Force Two, accompanied by his friends and family.

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‘Transgender and antifascist’: Messages engraved on bullets in gun found after Kirk’s assassination

“Antifascist” and “transgender” messages were found written on bullets in a gun discovered nearby after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a Utah school campus.

FBI agents said they found an older .30 caliber hunting rifle in the woods near the scene of the shooting at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

And three unspent rounds were found in the rifle’s magazine.

“All allegedly engraved with transgender and antifascist messages,” according to a report at AOL.

Kirk was speaking at a free speech event when he was struck in the neck by a bullet. He collapsed immediately and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Robert Bohls, FBI agent, revealed the assassin jumped down from the roof of a building directly across from the rally and fled into the woods after gunning down the influencer.

Separate confirmation of the bullets “engraved with transgender and antifascist ideology” also came from RadarOnline.com.

That’s significant has there have been several mass shootings inflicted by transgender ideology advocates in recent weeks and months.

The New York Post also confirmed the discovery of the rifle and the theme-engraved bullets, but the exact messaging remained undisclosed.

EXCLUSIVE: This morning my team received an e-mail from officer at ATF.

The email included a screen shot from what appears to be an internal message describing a weapon and cartridges located by an ATF and other law enforcement near the scene of the Charlie Kirk shooting at… pic.twitter.com/UKtOUPY5DC

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) September 11, 2025

Online, a posting by influencer Steven Crowder sourced the details to an ATF email.

“The email included a screen shot from what appears to be an internal message describing a weapon and cartridges located by an ATF and other law enforcement near the scene of the Charlie Kirk shooting at Utah Valley State University,” the posting said.

“On September 10, 2025, at approximately 12:24PM, Conservative political influencer Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at the Utah Valley University in Orem, UT. Mr. Kirk was speaking at the University as part of the American Comeback Tour. Multiple SLC I and III agents responded immediately. The suspect fired one shot from an elevated position on a rooftop in an adjacent building on the campus and surveillance video shows the suspect, jumping off and fleeing the area on foot,” said the ATF.

“ATF and other law-enforcement located an older model imported Mauser .30-06 caliber bolt action rifle wrapped in a towel in a wooded area near the campus. The location of the firearm appears to match the suspects route of travel. The spent cartridge was still chambered in addition to three unspent rounds at the top fed magazine. All cartridges have engraved wording on them, expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology. An emergency trace has been submitted an ATF SLC is working leads generated by the trace. The firearm and ammunition have been taken by the FBI for DNA analysis and fingerprint impressions. Upon completion of forensics, the firearm will be disassembled for additional importer information.”