(LifeSiteNews) — Charlie Kirk resembled Jesus Christ in the fearless manner in which he spoke truth about people in power, who then, at least in the case of Christ, conspired to kill him, Tucker Carlson said during a memorial service for the assassinated political activist on Sunday.
Jesus arrived in Jerusalem and “starts doing the worst thing that you can do, which is telling the truth about people (in power),” Carlson recalled from the podium at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona before tens of thousands of attendants at the Building a Legacy: Remembering Charlie Kirk memorial service.
In response, the people in power “just go bonkers, they hate it. And they become obsessed with making him stop,” illustrated the popular commentator, until “one guy with the bright idea” says “‘why don’t we just kill him? That’ll shut him up. That’ll fix the problem!’”
“Charlie knew that politics wasn’t the ultimate solution, Christ is.” – @TuckerCarlson pic.twitter.com/P0kLsLZz9f
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But laughing at this idea, the former Fox News host explained, “It doesn’t work that way,” and results of such crimes are most often quite contrary to what one expects them to be.
“Everything is inverted, and the Beatitudes tell it, I think, the most crisply. Everything is sort of the opposite of what you think it’s going to be,” he continued, citing the passage from Sacred Scripture, “Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted.”
‘The only real solution is Jesus’
With his “ultimately” being “a Christian evangelist,” Kirk was “bringing the Gospel to the country” and “doing the thing that the people in charge hate most, which is calling for them to repent,” Carlson charged.
And while politics was important to Kirk due to his belief “that vast improvements are possible politically,” he also understood that it has its limitations and is unable to “answer the deepest questions” or provide the final answers which, in the end, are provided by Jesus Christ.
“The only real solution is Jesus,” proclaimed Carlson, who had built the highest-rated cable news show in history before being ousted from Fox News without warning in April 2023. This occurred amid fears that he was “a Big Problem for pro-Israel Conservatives” and “a threat to the pro-Israel community” due to “his lack of enthusiasm for the Jewish state.”
The ‘only change that matters’ begins ‘when we repent of our sins’
Christ is ultimately the only solution because while politics is ordered toward “critiquing other people and getting them to change, Christianity, the gospel message, the message of Jesus begins with repentance,” Carlson continued.
“Christianity calls upon you to change,” he said. That is, believers must regularly examine their conscience, “meditate on what we’ve done wrong, how we’ve fallen short, and then it becomes possible to forgive other people,” he continued.
In being a Christian evangelist, “what Charlie was really saying is that change begins, the only change that matters, when we repent of our sins. We! Me! A recognition that the real problem is me and how fallen I am!” Carlson challenged.
In an apparent reference to both Christ and Kirk, the popular podcaster said that the presence of Jesus in the stadium with them “is a reminder of what we’ve known for 2,000 years, which is any attempt to extinguish the light causes it to burn brighter every single time.”
Kirk faced backlash for ‘principled pro-life views on what Israel was doing (in Gaza)’
While emphasizing that he had no idea who extinguished Kirk’s life in a previous commentary, stating that he was “not accusing anyone of being involved in that murder” or “implying anything,” Carlson did partially corroborate reports from The Grayzone (GZ) and Candace Owens that the late founder and CEO of Turning Point USA was going through a change of perspective with regards to Israel, for which he received sharp backlash from some of his highest donors.
“Charlie was falling out of love with Israel because they were controlling who he could invite to his conferences (as they did with me at Amfest),” Owens tweeted on September 18. And therefore, they were “running afoul of his free speech values. Zionist donors were threatening him (financially) over Tucker, me, Matt Gaetz and others” speaking at TPUSA events.
Tucker Carlson said that Charlie Kirk told him at a TPUSA Student Action Summit last July to highlight Epstein’s connections to Mossad.
Distinguishing between Netanyahu and the State of Israel, Carlson claimed that Kirk hated Netanyahu and his war against Gaza despite loving… pic.twitter.com/iLR7rIMEi3
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Grayzone editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal said in a recent interview that with the “billionaire class” believing “they had Charlie Kirk under their control” he started “showing some independence and some actual, I would say, principled pro-life views on what Israel was doing (in Gaza).”
READ: Jewish pundit says supporters of ‘what Israel’s doing in Gaza’ can never ‘claim to be pro-life’
‘People with power don’t want to hear disagreement. They don’t want to be challenged. Ever.’
Carlson affirmed the same from his own experience with Kirk, stating the head of America’s largest conservative youth association was “appalled by what was happening in Gaza” and that he judged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be “a very destructive force.”
Additionally, he said Kirk “believed Netanyahu was using the United States to prosecute his wars for the benefit of his country and that it was shameful and embarrassing and bad for the United States. And he resented it.”
Carlson also revealed that just before he took the stage last July at the TPUSA Student Action Summit (SAS) in Tampa, Florida, Kirk insisted he “Go all the way” in discussing the Jeffrey Epstein story as a possible blackmail operation in the United States, potentially connected to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.
“Shortly after that speech, there was a very intense attack on Charlie,” Carlson reported. “People with power don’t want to hear disagreement. They don’t want to be challenged. Ever.”
‘Large donors’ ‘very tough’ on Kirk, ‘tormented’ him ‘until the day he died’
Blumenthal described this targeting of Kirk as “a sustained private campaign of intimidation and free-floating fury by wealthy and powerful allies of Netanyahu.”
“His donors were very tough on him, so tough on him that I could feel it,” Carlson explained in a September 15 interview with Vice President J.D. Vance. “I talked to him a lot in the last few months, and he was under enormous pressure.”
Kirk resisted such pressure, inviting Carlson to speak again at TPUSA’s next conference in December for which he received further intensified backlash from the same donors, one of whom, Carlson reports, withdrew a $2 million pledged donation over the issue just two days before Kirk’s assassination.
Carlson went on to testify that a “small very intense group” of large donors who were offended by his SAS speech “went after” Kirk “and tormented him,” and they did so “until the day he died.”
Suspect in custody, facing death penalty
The TPUSA founder was fatally shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University’s campus as part of Turning Point USA’s “American Comeback Tour” on September 10 at age 31. In addition to wife Erika, he left behind two young children.
Kirk has been recognized as being extraordinarily influential both politically and culturally. He has been credited with helping Donald Trump secure a second term as president, and he was also known for respectfully engaging students on campuses across the country about a wide variety of issues, including abortion, Christianity, and the Constitution.
An evangelical Christian, Kirk deeply impacted many people across the globe and has inspired a significant number to go to church and explore or embrace Christianity. He was reportedly attending Catholic Mass with Erika, a Catholic, and their children, and praying the Holy Rosary.
Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old homosexual Utah resident, stands accused of committing the assassination. Reportedly, the suspect is in a relationship with a gender-confused male who is “transitioning” in an attempt to become a female.
If convicted, Robinson faces the death penalty.
