{"id":208389,"date":"2025-09-18T22:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=208389"},"modified":"2025-09-18T22:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:05:38","slug":"charlie-kirk-refused-netanyahu-funding-offer-was-frightened-by-pro-israel-forces-before-death-friend-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/charlie-kirk-refused-netanyahu-funding-offer-was-frightened-by-pro-israel-forces-before-death-friend-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer, was \u2018frightened\u2019 by pro-Israel forces before death, friend reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Trump insider and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk tells The Grayzone<\/em><\/a> how the assassinated conservative leader\u2019s turning point on Israeli influence provoked a private backlash from Netanyahu\u2019s allies that left him angry and afraid.<\/p>\n

The source said anxiety spread within the Trump administration after an apparent Israeli spying operation was uncovered.<\/p>\n

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Charlie Kirk rejected an offer earlier this year from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to arrange a massive new infusion of Zionist money into his Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization, America\u2019s largest conservative youth association, according to a longtime friend of the slain commentator speaking on the condition of anonymity. The source told The Grayzone<\/em> that the late pro-Trump influencer believed Netanyahu was trying to cow him into silence as he began to publicly question Israel\u2019s overwhelming influence in Washington and demanded more space to criticize it.<\/p>\n

In the weeks leading up to his September 10 assassination, Kirk had come to loathe the Israeli leader, regarding him as a \u201cbully<\/em>,\u201d the source said. Kirk was disgusted by what he witnessed inside the Trump administration, where Netanyahu sought to personally dictate the president\u2019s personnel decisions, and weaponized Israeli assets like billionaire donor Miriam Adelson to keep the White House firmly under its thumb.<\/p>\n

According to Kirk\u2019s friend, who also enjoyed access to President Donald Trump and his inner circle, Kirk strongly warned Trump last June against bombing Iran on Israel\u2019s behalf. \u201cCharlie was the only person who did that<\/em>,\u201d they said, recalling how Trump \u201cbarked at him<\/em>\u201d in response and angrily shut down the conversation. The source believes the incident confirmed in Kirk\u2019s consciousness that the president of the United States had fallen under the control of a malign foreign power, and was leading his own country into a series of disastrous conflicts.<\/p>\n

By the following month, Kirk had become the target of a sustained private campaign of intimidation and free-floating fury by wealthy and powerful allies of Netanyahu \u2013 figures he described in an interview as Jewish \u201cleaders<\/em>\u201d and \u201cstakeholders<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was afraid of them<\/em>,\u201d the source emphasized.<\/p>\n

At TPUSA, the rift with Israel widens<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kirk was 18 years old when he launched TPUSA in 2012. From its inception, his career was propelled by Zionist donors, who showered his young organization with money through neoconservative outfits like the David Horowitz Freedom Center<\/a>. He repaid his wealthy backers over the years by unleashing a relentless firehose of anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic<\/a> diatribes, accepting propaganda trips<\/a> to Israel, and sternly shutting down<\/a> nationalist forces challenging his support for Israel during TPUSA events. In the Trump era, few American gentiles had proved more valuable to the Jewish state than Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n

But as Israel\u2019s genocidal assault on the besieged Gaza Strip drove an unprecedented backlash within grassroots right-wing circles, where only 24% of younger Republicans<\/a> now sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians, Kirk began to shift. At times, he toed the Israeli line, spreading disinformation<\/a> about babies beheaded by Hamas on October 7, and denying the famine<\/a> imposed on the population of Gaza. Yet he simultaneously ceded to his base, wondering aloud<\/a> if Jeffrey Epstein was an Israeli intelligence asset, questioning<\/a> whether the Israeli government allowed the October 7 attacks to proceed in order to advance long-term political goals, and parroting narratives familiar to his most vociferous critic on the right, streamer Nick Fuentes.<\/p>\n

This July, at his TPUSA Student Action Summit, Kirk provided a forum for the right-wing grassroots to vent its fury about Israel\u2019s political hammerlock on the Trump administration. There, speakers from former Fox News<\/em> stalwarts Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, to the anti-Zionist Jewish comedian Dave Smith, denounced Israel\u2019s blood-soaked assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, branded Jeffrey Epstein as an Israeli intelligence asset, and openly taunted Zionist billionaires like Bill Ackman for \u201cgetting away with scams<\/em>\u201d despite having \u201cno actual skills<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tucker: How do you come to a place where some of the least impressive, most useless people who have no actual skills become billionaires\u2026 How did Bill Ackman get $9 billion? A pretty impressive guy? I know him. No pic.twitter.com\/gdcNT6imB9<\/a><\/p>\n

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n