Political commentator Danielle Moodie (@deetwocents) has ignited fresh debate after posting a viral Instagram video tying Charlie Kirk’s sudden death to his recent, and unusual, criticisms of Donald Trump over the unreleased Epstein files.
Kirk, the 30-year-old co-founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, while speaking at Utah Valley University. Authorities are investigating the killing as a political assassination, but Moodie suggests that the context surrounding his final months should not be ignored.
“Charlie Kirk over the summer was one of the MAGA folks who was talking very publicly about the lack of transparency from the Trump administration and the releasing of the Epstein files,” Moodie said. “At his Turning Point USA event, he even sat down with Megyn Kelly to call for transparency and to say that the people around Donald Trump were doing him a disservice.”
Moodie argued that this fissure inside the Republican base — the Epstein controversy — has long been a point of tension, and Kirk’s break with Trump may have deepened it.
“So you find it interesting then that Charlie Kirk would be targeted for murder,” Moodie said in her video, framing the killing as potentially more than just political violence by an outsider but as part of a struggle within the movement he helped build.
Her remarks connect three threads:
- Kirk’s rhetoric and legacy — years of inflammatory comments on race, gender, and gun rights that mainstream outlets now risk downplaying.
- His recent deviation from Trump — calling out the lack of transparency on the Epstein files, a sensitive subject that has divided MAGA loyalists.
- The political aftermath of his death — conservatives moving swiftly to cast Kirk as a martyr, with Trump pledging to award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Moodie likened this process of manufactured martyrdom to the historical Reichstag fire, when authoritarian leaders exploited crisis to consolidate control.
“America is on a dangerous descent into amnesia,” she warned, calling the bipartisan mourning for Kirk a form of gaslighting that erases the harm he caused while overlooking the political stakes behind his killing.
Her message, which has spread rapidly online, adds a provocative dimension to ongoing conversations about political violence, intra-MAGA fractures, and the struggle over how Charlie Kirk will be remembered — as a victim, a provocateur, or both.
