Charlie Kirk’s media empire and his right-wing activist organization, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), have come under the control of the Israel-directed forces he spent the last months of his life antagonizing. Erika Kirk now claims her husband supported Israel to the end, while TPUSA misrepresents his opposition to war on Iran.
The Charlie Kirk Show is now distributed by a federally registered agent of Israel tasked with seeding American media with Zionist propaganda. It is part of a whopping $46 million dollar annual contract between the Israeli government and Brad Parscale, the former chief of staff for Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign. This may be the largest lobbying contract in the history of foreign influence operations in the US.
On September 10, 2025, Kirk was assassinated during the first stop on his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley State University. Eight days later, Parscale registered as a foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, assuming responsibility for a propaganda blitz “tailored to Gen Z audiences across platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, podcasts, and other relevant digital and broadcast outlets.”
The deal meant that the Charlie Kirk Show, which had been distributed by the Salem Media Network since 2020, was placed under the control of a foreign agent for Israel, with Parscale assuming a role as Salem’s Chief Strategy Officer. According to the terms of the contract, Parscale’s Clock Tower would “integrate its pro-Israel messaging into Salem Media Network properties.”
According to a December 2025 report by Radio Ink, The Charlie Kirk Show “will continue as a podcast on the Salem Podcast Network, as Salem Media ‘will maintain its close professional and personal relationship with Turning Point USA.’”
“Salem has been so gracious through this process and even encouraged us to continue broadcasting the show on the Salem Radio Network,” said Andrew Kolvet, the TPUSA spokesman and host of The Charlie Kirk Show.
Since Kirk’s killing, his successors have done their best to bury his vehement opposition to war on Iran, as well as his public fits of disgust with Netanyahu and his army of lobbyists in the US. Kirk’s widow and replacement as TPUSA CEO, Erika Kirk, now insists that she and her husband never wavered in their support for Israel. She has also been unwilling to state what her late husband would have thought about the war the US and Israel waged on Iran this year.
“My husband isn’t here to say whether or not we should be at war with Iran,” Erika Kirk said in response to a question at a May 2026 TPUSA event. “I would love for him to be here right now and tell us if we should or should not.”
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Erika Kirk says she can’t answer whether or not Charlie Kirk would support a US invasion of Iran because he’s dead
— HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) March 25, 2026
"It's frustrating when you have people speaking for him” pic.twitter.com/CjWZkxnWbh
However, in the months before his killing, Kirk left little mystery about where he stood on the US imposing war on Iran. In one of many tirades against attacking Iran, he slammed Sen. Lindsey Graham and other cheerleaders for war as “pathologically insane.” He went on to warn that a regime change war inevitably “creates a quagmire. And then there is civil war.”
As The Grayzone reported, in the weeks leading up to Kirk’s killing, the TPUSA founder agonized over the growing pressure he felt from Israel’s cutouts, and from Netanyahu himself, to preside over a blitzkreig of youth-oriented Zionist propaganda. On August 6, 2025, just over a month before his death, Kirk openly raged against Jewish “leaders” and “stakeholders” harassing him for his criticism of Israeli policies. “It’s all of the sudden: ‘oh, Charlie: he’s no longer with us.’ Wait a second—what does ‘with us’ mean, exactly? I’m an American, okay? I represent this country,” he fulminated to podcast host Megyn Kelly.
Days before Kirk’s public rant, he attended a private retreat convened in the Hamptons by Zionist billionaire Bill Ackman. There, as The Grayzone revealed, an Israel lobby operative named Natasha Hausdorff unloaded on Kirk for complaining about “moral blackmail” from Tel Aviv. By this point, Kirk had rejected a massive infusion of Israel-directed donations to TPUSA, and was on his way to refusing a personal offer from Netanyahu to visit Jerusalem. He was also providing space on stage at TPUSA events for some of the most outspoken right-wing critics of Israel, from Tucker Carlson to Megyn Kelly to the anti-Zionist Jewish comedian Dave Smith.
On September 6, 2025, an arch-Zionist centi-millionaire named Robert Shillman denounced Kirk from the dais at a private gala in Los Angeles, expressing regret for showering his fortune on TPUSA now that its founder had turned against Israel. As The Grayzone revealed, Shillman had just withdrawn a $2 million donation to TPUSA as punishment for Kirk’s heresy.
Four days later, Kirk was shot through the neck by a sniper in front of thousands of attendees of his so-called American Comeback Tour.
Just over a week after the shocking assassination, the Israeli Foreign Ministry effectively took control over the Charlie Kirk Show through its lobbying contract with Parscale’s Clock Tower X. Given the statements Kirk made both publicly and in private to confidants about Israel in the weeks before his killing, it seems unlikely he would have consented to any agreement that gave a registered lobbyist for Israel responsibility for distributing his show.
Days later, on September 15, one of the most visible propagandists of Netanyahu’s political network in the US, Ben Shapiro, appeared in TPUSA studios to make a dramatic announcement. Seated beside Kirk’s former co-hosts, Shapiro declared that his Daily Wire outlet was donating $1 million to TPUSA to supposedly “bring people back to Christ, and bring people back to church, and back to biblical values.”
IT’S A SET UP!
— Lauren Witzke (@LaurenWitzkeDE) September 16, 2025
Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire "donates" $1M to TPUSA to help "bring people back to Christ, and bring people back to church, and back to biblical values," as Charlie wanted.
This sounds good, but the truth is, this is money spent to enforce Christian Zionism and… pic.twitter.com/rkJFewDjns
Given that the Daily Wire was bleeding money, laying off staff and losing viewers at a rapid rate by this point, the whopping donation raised questions about whether Shapiro was serving as a pass-through for Israel lobbyists exploiting Kirk’s unexpected death to restore control over TPUSA.
To date, there is no evidence that the state of Israel was responsible for the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Yet it is undeniable that Kirk’s killing removed one of the greatest obstacles to Israel’s plans to compel Trump to launch a massive regime change war on Iran.
As The Grayzone reported, Kirk was the only figure in Trump’s inner circle to personally appeal to the president against committing US forces to Israel’s 12-day-long assault on Iran during June 2025. Trump “barked” at Kirk, according to a source, and angrily dispatched him. Days later, Trump ordered US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, setting the stage for Operation Epic Fury the following year. This account has since been confirmed by Vice President J.D. Vance.
When Trump launched Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026, he initiated a military imbroglio that would fulfill Kirk’s most dire warnings about the war’s consequences. But as the economically catastrophic effects of the war unfolded, and the US failed to achieve a single stated military objective, Kirk’s successors at TPUSA ignited an angry internet backlash when they willfully misrepresented his views on attacking Iran.
For her part, Erika Kirk has worked to bring TPUSA back into line with the Israeli agenda which her martyred husband defied.
On December 13, 2025, Kirk’s widow starred in a televised town hall hosted by self-described “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss and broadcast by CBS News, which had been purchased by the billionaire Israeli asset David Ellison four months prior. During the carefully stage-managed and cringeworthy spectacle, Weiss nudged Kirk on her late husband’s views on Israel.
“Charlie used to say: Jew hate is brain rot,” Erika Kirk insisted. She then recounted a junket to Jerusalem in which she “saw the Bible come alive in Technicolor.”
“How could you hate that place?” she wondered, referring to the state of Israel.
Erika Kirk, in tears, condemns antisemitism:
— 𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐍𝐄𝐒 (@Antunes1) December 14, 2025
“How could you hate the jewish people?”
“Charlie used to say: Jew hate is brain rot”
“How could you hate that place [Israel]?”
We can all see what this is now. pic.twitter.com/pomPeNVROp
Reprinted with permission from The Grayzone.
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