Beltway Insider: Trump/Epstein, Charlie Kirk Assassination, 9/11 Remembrance, Assassination Has a Purpose
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- Published on Saturday, 13 September 2025 18:26
- Written by Janet Walker
Political right-wing, and MAGA conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, 31, was assassinated in Orem, Utah, as he was debating gun violence and mass shootings, during a "Prove me Wrong" Turning Point debate at Utah Valley University.
The President's job approval rating, according to Gallup featured in The New York Times for the period ending September 13, 2025, of those polled who approve of his effectiveness as President remained consistent at 40% and those who disapprove of his effectiveness as president remained consistent at 56%. A slight 3% of the population polled have no opinion. Ratings are calculated weekly.
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President Trump has once again figured into the Jeffrey Epstein investigation as the House Oversight Committee released a suggestive birthday drawing, signed with a signature that appears to the presidents, even as he has denied signing the sexually suggestive picture.
The line drawing of the female anatomy was signed suggestively near where traditionally a females gentiles are located.
"The Oversight Committee has secured the infamous 'Birthday Book' that contains a note from President Trump that he has said does not exist," Representative Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the committee, said in a statement. "It's time for the president to tell us the truth about what he knew and release all the Epstein files," The New York Times reported.
The House Oversight Committee will continue its investigation in the upcoming weeks and months.
Charlie Kirk Assassination
Political right-wing conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, 31, was assassinated in Orem, Utah, as he was debating gun violence and mass shooting, during a "Prove me Wrong" Turning Point debate at Utah Valley University.
Kirk, while not widely known across mainstream America, had built a large following with the youth demographic and was respected within the ranks of the Republican Party and seen as part of the MAGA future of influencers and leaders.
President Trump wrote on TruthSocial, "The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead." . . ."No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!," ABCnews.com reported.
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Early Life
Born in Illinois, in October 1993, Kirk began his political activism moderately as a volunteer. Although he was accepted to Harper College, he did not attend the university long enough to earn a degree. By this time, he had solidified his republican based conservative views and, after meeting Tea-party candidate Bill Montgomery, decide to pursue political activism fulltime. He then founded Turning Point USA. In 2012, he met Foster Friess, a wealthy republican pollical donor, who agreed to provide financing for the organization.
With money no longer an issue, Kirk was able to devout himself fulltime to his political cause and agenda. Evangelizing right-wing pro-conservative extreme views was lucrative for the high school graduate. His salary ballooned from $32,000 annually to more than $325,000. His partnership with the Reverend Jerry Falwell, Jr., to form a right wing think tank failed after one year.
"A key ally of Donald Trump, he promoted right-wing and Trump-aligned causes. He espoused a variety of conservative views, including his opposition to abortion, gun control and transgender rights. His more controversial views include his criticism of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Martin Luther King Jr., and his promotion of Christian nationalism, COVID-19 misinformation, the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, and false claims of electoral fraud in 2020," according to Wikipedia.
Born on the cusp of the advancement in technology, Kirk was the perfect example of the Gen Z influencer who mastered algorithms, understood the far reaching value of social media, and the impressionable minds of the youth demographic. His tactics for recruitment, could be considered cult-like, inviting those who felt disenfranchised, who witnessed unqualified diversity candidates advancing without the work, becoming radicalized to the MAGA thinking.
His message was directed to a generation not old enough to realize, one can never engage in public radical debate and be seen as winning. And to those who felt maligned in these prove it debates, it may have just been the seed that developed into a determination to silence the voice. Period.
Manhunt
MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk was speaking to a crowd of about 3000, in what was billed as Turning Point USA Comeback Tour, in an outdoor stadium when he was shot at 12:33 PM (MST) on September 10, 2025. His death was confirmed two hours later, at 2:40 PM (MST).
Over the next 33 hours, the Salt Lake City FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Bowles began piecing together, though available footage found in and around the university campus, and through ring door cameras and other home security video captured in the area.
Less than 12 hours after the shooting, Agents had captured footage on a suspect running across the roof of a building approximately 200 yards from the shooting, and then climbing down off the building, which allowed Agent to gather hand and foot prints. The video, from the university capture him heading into a wooded areas, where he left a bolt-action rifle wrapped in a towel. From there the suspect was seen on several video cameras in the neighborhood.
Twenty hours after the shooting, at 9:56 AM (MST) September 11, FBI release photos of a young man, college age, wearing sunglasses, a ball cap, jeans and a t-shirt, and wearing Converse sneakers. He appears lanky, with dark hair. FBI announced also a reward of $100,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of this suspect.
Later that same evening, Tyler Robinson, 22, implied to his father, Matthew Robinson, that he killed Kirk and would rather die than be arrested. The elder Robinson contacted a family friend who is also a leader in their local church, to help calm him.
Thirty-three hours after Charlie Kirk was assassinated his alleged killer was in custody
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Suspect Tyler Robinson
After a 33-hour manhunt, police arrested Tyler Robinson, 22, a kid who has been called "squeaky clean," "supersmart," and who received a presidential full-ride scholarship valued at $32,000, aced four Advanced Placement courses in his senior year, and somewhere between his first and second semester of college, this high achiever became despondent and dropped out of his pre-engineering major, and exited college. Recently Robinson was excelling as a third year electrician apprentice at Dixie Technical College in Utah.
And so, what could be the motive that could cause a super smart high achiever to commit such a vile and heinous act?
"It is increasingly difficult to immediately ascribe motivation as many lone young assailants are often a mix of grievance, mental distress, and aggressions picked up in social circles and online," said Brian Levin, professor emeritus at Cal State San Bernardino and founder of its Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. "Verbiage, memes, targeting, crude humor and cultural references that are immediately available often telegraph motives for violent symbolic attacks, but can also be amorphous or disjointed," reported The Los Angeles Times.
For now, the messaging, like the Haboob dust storm that recently blackened Arizona, will fill the airways, as the demonization of political parties sweeps across the nation, with each side hammering the public with incendiary speech meant to cement the messaging that Kirk was killed by liberals.
The truth is Robinson, although registered republican, had no political action, he was raised in a strong Republican home, had exposure to religion, as his parents attended Church of the Latter Day Saints, was an excellent student, and had no extremists beliefs or ties.
The Luigi Mangione Connection
Two weeks ago, federal prosecutors, in a new court filing, stated they believe, "Luigi Mangione, who is accused of gunning down a top insurance company executive on a New York City street, has inspired others to embrace violence, including the gunman behind last month's deadly attack on the NFL headquarters in Manhattan," NBC.com reported.
Even as there is no direct link to the 270 Park Avenue gunman, who claimed Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy had motivated him to take action and hold the National Football League responsible for withholding critical medical information on the dangers of concussions, the support Mangione has received, even to the point of turning him into a folk hero, has instigated a wave of "take downs" of corporate leaders who have denied or failed to address issues which then result in egregious injury.
9/11 Remembrance
The twenty-fourth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were held this week, at 9/11 Memorial in New York City and at the Pentagon. Both ceremonies were overshadowed by the events in Utah.
Twenty-four years ago, New York City's Twin Towers and The Pentagon were attacked by terrorists. For all the escalated temperature in the country today, remember when terrorists came for us, they did not care what race, political party, religion or sexual orientation we were, they came for us because to them we are the Great Satan American. We are allowing ourselves to be caught up in the same indoctrination by demonizing political parties or leaders as those who wish to cause us harm.
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Coronavirus Total
At the order of the President of the United States, the U.S. no longer recognizes the value of The World Health Organization. The CDC has recommended every person from age six months, including senior citizens should receive at least one shot of an updated COVID-19 vaccine, annually. The death toll from Covid-19 has dramatically decreased, as has transmission of the virus. Even as confirmed new cases continue each week, fewer are dying from the newer variants.
For the seven days ending September 13, 2025, the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases reported by the World Health Organization increased by 57,795 to 778,567,973. The total worldwide death toll increased by 394 to 7,100,621 deaths. The United States has stopped providing Covid data to the World Health Organization. (Data updated August 24, 2025, from the World Health Organization).
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Assassination Has a Purpose
The Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan wrote in her column Charlie Kirk's Assassination Feels like a Hinge Point, this week, "An assassination is the intentional and deliberate killing of a person for political reasons. It has a purpose: to alter events, to remove a leader, to intimidate and punish enemies."
These are the words of an enlightened individual, someone who understands violence does not solve problems, it exacerbates them. The assassination of Charlie Kirk is not the actions of an enlightened mind, even as media have reported the suspect was of high intelligence.
Gun violence in America has become so commonplace that the list of politicians injured through gun violence or attempted assassination which Ms. Noonan added, save Representative Gabby Giffords and the January 6 attack on the Capitol, have no place in my collective memory and did omit the recent murders of Minnesota Representative and State Senate leader Melissa Hortman and her husband, quite possibly as it was not one she recalled.
But say Uvalde, Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, Columbine, Parkland or any of the many mass shootings and people remember where they were when they heard, they remember the feelings, the shock, the numbness, the not again desperation. Gun violence has become a pathway to infamy for the dismayed, the lost, and those looking to become immortalized within the darker chapters of history.
While many mourn Charlie Kirk, the loss reverberates for the few and will not be one of those historical turning points that future generations will look to as a pivot point that altered the political landscape.
Perhaps we have become immune to the devastation of gun violence, or collectively, as a nation, we suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and simply don't have the same emotional register as in the past when this action would have incited a nation to demand change.
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Janet Walker is the publisher, founder, and sole owner of Haute-Lifestyle.com. A graduate of New York University, she has been covering international news through the Beltway Insider, a weekly review of the nation's top stories, for more than a decade. A general beat writer/reporter and entertainment/film critic, she is also an accomplished news/investigative news/crime reporter and submitted for Pulitzer Prize consideration "Cops Conspire to Deep Six Sex Assaults" in the Breaking News Category and was persuaded to withdraw the submission. Ms. Walker has completed five screenplays "The Six Sides of Truth," "The Assassins of Fifth Avenue," "The Wednesday Killer," "The Manhattan Project," and the sci-fi thriller "Project 13: The Last Day." She has also published "Unholy Alliances: A True Crime Story," and "Days, Times, Seasons, and Events: A Collection of Poetry & Prose," which can be purchased here. She is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club, the National Writers Union, and a member of the International Federation of Journalists.
