By Chuck Baldwin<\/p>\n
Before I begin the body of this column, let me inform readers that this column is written each Tuesday before the Thursday publish date. This means my column last week was written before Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination. However, even if I had written the article on Wednesday or Thursday, I would not have devoted the column to Charlie\u2019s murder, as I would not have had time to allow narratives, on-scene videos, eyewitness testimonies and evidentiary material to surface.<\/p>\n
By last Sunday, I had enough information to speak to the matter. Therefore, last Sunday, September 14, I devoted my Sunday message to the subject. The title of the address is\u00a0Observations, Questions And Consequences Regarding The Assassination Of Charlie Kirk<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n As you watch the address,\u00a0here is the video<\/a> I was referring to when I suggested that Charlie could have been shot from \u201cground level.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, to the subject at hand.<\/p>\n Republicans in Congress are working in determined fashion to circle the wagons around the Epstein files. As with the rest of Trump\u2019s promises, the promise of transparency is also in the trash can. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are working like madmen to keep congressional Republicans in line to block any efforts to release the files.<\/p>\n The venerable Thomas Massie (R-KY) is mounting a charge to obtain enough Republican votes in the House to pass the amendment releasing the files, the threats and intimidation of Johnson and Trump notwithstanding.<\/p>\n Massie has been the greatest congressman since Ron Paul left office. And not surprisingly, he is Trump\u2019s number one target for defeat in his reelection next year. Trump is using his influence among Kentucky Republicans to help oust the courageous congressman. In addition, Trump has called in reinforcements from his Jewish billionaire buddies to toss in millions of dollars to defeat Massie,\u00a0one of whom is named in Epstein\u2019s files<\/a>. What a coincidence!<\/p>\n What everyone now knows is that Charlie Kirk was in the process of shifting his position on Israel and was suggesting that Israel is blackmailing members of Congress and possibly President Trump and was demanding that the Epstein files be released\u2014in their entirety. He was also suggesting that Israeli forces stood down on October 7 and facilitated the Hamas attack, which gave Netanyahu the excuse he needed to ethnically cleanse and commit open genocide of the Gazan people.<\/p>\n On the heels of his assassination, and with the revelation that Kirk was publicly calling for the release of the Epstein files (Kirk also expressed fears that Israel would assassinate him), Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) surprisingly introduced an amendment to release the files.<\/p>\n In recent weeks and months, congressional efforts to force disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein files have largely concentrated in the House, where there is a bipartisan discharge petition seeking signatures. But as it turns out, the\u00a0upper chamber can tackle<\/a>\u00a0the controversy, too, despite the Republican majority. NBC News reported:<\/a><\/p>\n The Republican-led Senate narrowly voted Wednesday to defeat an amendment introduced by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to compel the Justice Department to release all of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The vote was 51-49 in favor of tabling the amendment. Two Republicans \u2014 Rand Paul of Kentucky and Josh Hawley of Missouri \u2014 joined all 47 Democrats in voting against tabling the amendment.<\/p>\n The report goes on:<\/p>\n For much of the year, GOP senators have been content to avoid the Epstein scandal, which made it all the more notable when Schumer surprised his colleagues. Taking advantage of senators\u2019 work on a sweeping defense policy package, known as the National Defense Authorization Act (or NDAA), the New York Democrat\u00a0teed up a procedural vote<\/a> on an amendment to direct Attorney General Pam Bondi to make public any available documents that the Justice Department possesses related to Epstein and his associates.<\/p>\n Not surprisingly, the effort fell short, but the fact that two Senate Republicans voted with Democrats on this was a timely reminder about the divisions within the GOP over an issue that Donald Trump can\u2019t make go away.<\/p>\n What\u2019s more, the minority leader is hardly the only Democrat working on the Epstein controversy.\u00a0The New York Times reported:<\/a><\/p>\n Senator Ron Wyden, the Oregon Democrat who has led an investigation into some of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s financial dealings, introduced a bill to compel the Treasury Department to turn over copies of all suspicious activity reports filed by banks for thousands of transactions by Epstein and dozens of his associates or business partners. Wyden, the Senate Finance Committee\u2019s ranking member, previously sent letters to Treasury officials demanding copies of the reports but was rebuffed.<\/p>\n Among the banks whose reports Wyden is trying to obtain is JPMorgan Chase, which served as Epstein\u2019s primary banker for many years and has been\u00a0accused of helping to enable<\/a> Epstein\u2019s activities. (The bank has denied any wrongdoing.)<\/p>\n As\u00a0Politico reported<\/a>, the bipartisan duo spearheading the effort \u2014 Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California \u2014 now need only one more House member\u2019s signature to clinch 218 signatures, which would trigger a process House GOP leaders would be powerless to stop.<\/p>\n (Source)<\/a><\/p>\n Note: If you have a Republican U.S. senator who is not named Rand Paul or Josh Hawley, your senator voted to keep the Epstein files secret. I would hope you would feel feverishly motivated to contact your senators.<\/p>\n And right on cue, Donald Trump is using Kirk\u2019s murder as an excuse to continue his totalitarian tactics against people he doesn\u2019t like.<\/p>\n Angered in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination<\/a>, Trump administration officials say they’re planning to use “every resource” available across the federal government to target left-leaning organizations<\/a> they contend are promoting political violence.<\/p>\n Vice President JD Vance<\/a> and Stephen Miller, deputy White House chief of staff, on Sept. 15 discussed plans to “go after” liberal non-government organizations, or NGOs, they said support “doxxing” campaigns against conservatives, help orchestrate riots, publicize the addresses of political opponents and promote messages intended to create violence.<\/p>\n “We are going to channel all of the anger that we have over the organized campaign that led to this assassination to uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks,” Miller said as he joined Vance on a livestream as the vice president hosted “The Charlie Kirk Show”<\/a> to pay tribute to the late conservative activist.<\/p>\n (Source)<\/a><\/p>\n In my message last Sunday<\/a>, I predicted this very outcome. I opined:<\/p>\n Trump has always had dictatorial tendencies. His attack on the freedom of speech to criticize Israel is a prime example. With the murder of Charlie Kirk, Trump is free to \u201cpunish\u201d the left, who are being blamed for Kirk\u2019s death.<\/p>\n People on the Right are \u201cdeclaring war\u201d on the Left for its promotion of \u201cpolitical violence.\u201d The whole Left-Right paradigm is fashionable once again.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t remember these Trump toadies declaring war against \u201cpolitical violence\u201d when the liberal Democrats Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were\u00a0shot and killed<\/a> back in June of this year.<\/p>\n Kirk\u2019s tragic death is merely an excuse to open the floodgates of an oppressive government that targets political ideology.<\/p>\n And because people on the Left are now the targets, the MAGA toadies and evangelical delusionals (my new word for Christian Zionists) are cheering it on. But what happens when a new sheriff rides into the White House and the targets are pro-life activists, pro-Second Amendment advocates and other conservatives?<\/p>\n Dividing America into Left and Right again is just what Netanyahu wants. If we are consumed with fighting each other as Americans, we won\u2019t see the slaughter and genocide of the Gazan people\u2014or the Epstein files.<\/p>\n The kind of violent end to the life of Charlie Kirk this week is the kind of violent end that over 100 people\u2014including little children and babies\u2014are succumbing to EVERY DAY in Palestine at the hands of Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump and their cabal of Zionist zealots.<\/p>\n I continued:<\/p>\n No American should ever be killed in a public square speaking what he believes is right. I don’t care if that person is a person that I disagree with 100% top to bottom, if it’s the most leftist liberal you can imagine, a person that disagrees with me about everything and I with him.<\/p>\n I honor and respect the right of that American citizen to stand up in a public square and speak what he believes is truth in peace. And thereby, I have the same right. If one person does not have the right to stand and speak in the public square in peace, then none of us have the right to stand and speak in the public square in peace.<\/p>\n If Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans truly wanted to honor the memory of Charlie Kirk, they would immediately release the entirety of the Epstein files without redaction and press the Israeli government for its internal records regarding its complicity with the Hamas attack on October 7, including the Hannibal Directive<\/i> that ordered IDF troops to fire on Israeli citizens.<\/p>\n But what are they doing? Completely ignoring Israel\u2019s blackmail operation and its collusion with Hamas on October 7\u2014and the very possible collusion it had with Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination. And instead, are using Kirk\u2019s death as an excuse to further trash the U.S. Constitution and use the power of the federal government to foment more hatred and division among the American people and \u201cgo after\u201d American citizens whose political views they don\u2019t like.<\/p>\n MAGA, wake up! You are being played.<\/p>\n Are you really going to sit back and allow the Republicans in Washington, D.C. (how many of them are being blackmailed by Israel? Don\u2019t you want to know?) to continue covering for the murderous blackmailer Benjamin Netanyahu and the violent, genocidal Zionist government? Are you really willing to put the interests of a corrupt foreign government above the interests of your own country? Do you really believe that is what the Bible (and our Constitution) teaches you to do?<\/p>\n 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 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,\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,\u201d they said, recalling how Trump \u201cbarked at him\u201d in response and angrily shut down the conversation. The source believes the incident confirmed in Kirk\u2019s mind 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 publicly referred to as Jewish \u201cleaders\u201d and \u201cstakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n