Last Thursday, September 10, Turning Point USA unveiled an eight-foot bronze statue of Charlie Kirk outside its headquarters in Phoenix, one year to the day after he was shot and killed at Utah Valley University. It lasted three days. Sunday morning, just after 8:00, Phoenix Police got the calls. Somebody had been at it in the night with red spray paint: the face, the neck, the torso, the hand, the hats, and a frowning face drawn across the chest. Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck, and whoever did this put the red on the neck. At the base of the statue is a sign with his picture and the words "Jesus defeated death so you can live." They crossed out the word Jesus. They crossed out the cross. Fox News reports the word "Satan" was written over it. Tyler Bowyer of Turning Point put it this way: "This morning we woke up to radical criminals vandalizing our headquarters, crossing over Charlie's face, scratching out Jesus and the cross, and spraying red paint on his neck." Turning Point is going through the security footage with law enforcement; Phoenix Police say it is under investigation and there are no arrests. They did not just go after a man. They went after the name of Jesus on his memorial. Chuck reads it as reported by Fox News, FOX 10 Phoenix and Breitbart News.
Also in today's episode: the president says from his golf course in Ireland that Iran "wants to make a deal so badly, they are calling constantly," that the war ends "right after the midterms" and "gasoline's gonna drop like a rock," while AAA's Sunday numbers put regular at $4.31 and diesel at $6.20, over six dollars for the first time and $2.50 more than a year ago; a Massachusetts jury deadlocks 11 to 1 in the Lindsay Clancy case, NBC10 Boston digs into the lone holdout's court record, and Governor DeSantis answers, "If the juror is being harassed, Florida will provide asylum"; federal prosecutors subpoena six years of records on the nonprofit that pays for Gavin Newsom's travel, per the San Francisco Standard, with no one charged; Emmanuel Macron falls to 16 percent approval in an Ipsos poll, his lowest since 2017; The Gateway Pundit's own documentary about the five men prosecuted over January 6 premieres in West Palm Beach on the 26th; Senator Ted Cruz is booed through nine minutes on ESPN's College GameDay in Austin; and Congressman Tom Tiffany's plane loses power and lands in Lake Wausau, he swims to safety, and his Democratic opponent says he is "grateful to God" that no one was hurt.
There is a famine of truth in our land. Eight stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
