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Trump's top priority in the UK, Charlie Kirk Assassin Motive Revealed, Shutdown Watch | September 18
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On today’s 10 Minute Drill (September 18, 2025): 🇬🇧 Trump in the UK — State visit highlights, carriage rides, and pressure to roll back the UK’s Digital Services Tax. ⚖️ Charlie Kirk Case — New charges against Tyler Robinson, the...
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President Trump is in the United Kingdom for his second state visit. The latest on the Charlie Kirk assassination and the investigation into his shooter. New texts reveal what his motive might have been. Also, shutdown watch and so much more today on 10 Minute Drill.
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On Tuesday, Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray announced the charges that were being filed against Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson. They include aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm, and obstruction of justice. And Gray also noted that they will be seeking the death penalty. Now, through that charging announcement, he also detailed a number of other pieces of information that have fed into those charges, including new text messages between Tyler Robinson and his boyfriend detailing exactly why he did this and a number of other things. First, from Robinson. I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I'm sorry to involve you, roommate. You weren't the one who did it, right, Robinson? I am. I'm sorry. They talk about the planning behind this, which goes to how this was premeditated. Roommate, how long have you been planning this, Robinson? A bit over a week, I believe. And then they talk specifically about motive and why Robinson did this. Why? Why did I do it? Yeah, I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out. So these texts are important for two very specific reasons. First, when charges are determined, motive, planning, state of mind, all is factored into this, what with the best information prosecutors are able to put together, these text messages are very, very illustrative of exactly what Robinson was thinking and planning going into this. The second reason being from the moment that Robinson was identified as the shooter. Utah Governor Cox and others were very specific about his political leanings, noting that he had grown more political and distant from his very conservative family. But despite that, a number of voices from, from the left have been pushing this idea based on no information whatsoever, that Robinson was actually a confused Trump supporting Republican. First, here's Jimmy Kimmel with one of the highest profile ones on Monday night.
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We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.
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Here is Dave Minn, a congressman from California, also pushing this, this bizarre misinformation about Robinson. Now that the Charlie Kirk assassin has been identified as maga, I'm sure Donald Trump elon Musk and all the insane GOP politicians who called for retribution against the radical left will now shift their focus to stopping the toxic violence on the radical right. Peter Hassan at the Washington Free Beacon, a good friend of 10 Minute Drill, compiled a list of some of the most prominent names who are pushing this information. Right on Right crime. Meet the left wingers gaslighting you about the Charlie Kirk assassination. That list includes Kevin Cruz from Princeton University, Randy Weingarten from the American Federation of Teachers, Lawrence Tribe from Harvard Law School, Brandy Zadrozny from msnbc, Jamil Hill from the Atlantic, and Julia Loft from Puck News, among several others. Now, a lot of those names will sound familiar to you. These are basically the Mount Rushmore of the Blue Anon left wing conspiracy theory universe. But there was a concerted effort, likely coordinated behind the scenes by some of these prominent voices, including high level, high profile academics, to push the idea that this was a Trump supporting Republican. Which is insane on its face, but also just shows how desperate Democrats were to make this about anything other than their own rhetoric and their own pipeline of disinformation and radicalization that led us to this point. And in case you thought that getting these text messages and the wealth of information that came out in the charging materials was enough, here is CNN on Tuesday night saying we still don't know the motives.
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You said a lot there and we don't have a motive yet. We don't know yet. We're waiting. Obviously we've heard what the governors had to say with the of course we know.
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We don't have a motive yet.
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We do know the motive. We know why. And I believe the Wall Street Journal editorial board said it best about the text messages. They show how one young mind, despite what appears to be a good upbringing in a loving family, can be twisted by what he reads online into an act of murderous violence for political reasons. It is no coincidence that so many of the voices pushing this insane and outrageous disinformation campaign to confuse you about what was behind this, what motivated the killer, are some of the same voices that have pushed the most aggressive and most extreme and egregious language about people like Charlie Kirk, people like President Trump and others about being a fascist, being Hitler, being a radical. With the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the conversation going on around it, there is brand new polling from YouGov. Most Americans across the political spectrum say political violence is never justified. But younger and more liberal Americans are more likely to disagree. Overall, 72% say political violence is never justified. But 11% say violence can sometimes be justified. Now when you hear that and you wonder who is in that 11%, YouGov got into that. 25% of very liberal people believe political violence can sometimes be justified. 17% of liberals, but only 6% of conservatives and 3% of very conservatives believe political violence is ever justified. And 19% of 18 to 29 year olds and 14% of 30 to 44 year olds. I talked in here a lot, especially last week, about how jarring it was to see so many people in my own social circles say that there might be a justification because of the things that Charlie believed, that some political violent actions are justified. But as you see this data, the fact that one in four people who consider themselves to be very liberal believe political violence is justified, you get to understand where we are as a country right now and the fact that it is very concentrated on the far left and among those youngest of voters. Yesterday, President Trump arrived in the United Kingdom for his second state visit. Here they are deboarding carriages and arriving at Windsor Castle. Here they begin the ceremonial inspection of the guard at Windsor Castle. Here's Piers Morgan describing the scale of this welcome.
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No question. I think this is a real statement by the king and by the senior members of the royal family. It's very rare they all get together.
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So this is an important state visit for President Trump because at the same time, the United States, United Kingdom, European Union are all involved in complex trade negotiations, international discussions about things like Russia, Ukraine and a number of critical foreign policy matters. But as President Trump is there, Congress is asking him to take some very specific action. 22 House Republicans wrote a letter yesterday to the Trump administration. As you prepare for the upcoming US UK Leaders Summit, we urge you to prioritize securing a commitment that the UK will remove its digital service tax should the UK fail to agree. We believe reopening should the Section 301 investigation into the DST would be necessary and appropriate. Now for your background, the digital services tax is something we've talked about quite a bit on 10 minute drill. It is an absurd penalty that European countries have placed on American tech companies for their innovation. For American tech companies to sell into their markets, they have to pay exorbitant fees under this digital services tax. And you've got 22 House Republicans calling on President Trump to ensure that as they continue these trade negotiations and these other very important conversations, they don't forget to ensure that this digital services tax is addressed. They also mentioned the 301 investigation tool in President Trump's first term, they opened a 301 investigation into European countries for unfair trade practices, including the digital services tax. There's a new op ed in National Review. Europe is going after America's biggest companies. Trump must push back. This is from Ashley Baker Baker writes. European countries such as France, Spain and Italy have used a growing web of regulation to target American firms, draining hundreds of millions from these companies through tools like the digital services tax while sparing their own. The administration has not only the right but also the obligation to use all necessary tools at its disposal, including section 301 to stop digital discrimination and bring international digital markets into balance. With less than two weeks until a government shutdown, Democrats have adopted a very unique strategy. Now in most government shutdown fights, both sides point fingers at the other to say they caused this. Their actions made it impossible for us to avoid a government shutdown. But this time Democrats are actually taking ownership of the shutdown. This in Semaphore Dem voters want shutdown Fight Poll shows Democrats are releasing polling from their own pay for play dark money funded pollster that shows that the Democrat base is itching for a shutdown fight. What this polling also shows is that Democrats believe one of the top priorities in spending bills should be things like rural health care, which is inconvenient for Democrats because there was $50 billion for rural health care in President Trump's one big beautiful bill that every Democrat opposed. However, as you see Democrats taking the lead from their base to drive into a shutdown ditch, you have to remember the the Democrats currently have about a 25 to 30% approval rating and it is largely because their base has pushed them to do insane things and adopt insane policy positions. And this is one more act of the Democrats in Washington effort to sort of woo their base back into favor. But it reminds me a little bit of Pam from the office as she's describing following Michael Scott into a terrible business plan. When a child drives a car into a tree, you don't blame the child. They didn't know any better. You blame the 30 year old woman who sat down in the car next to him and said drive kid. And that is what Democrats are doing right now with their base. On Tuesday we talked about President Trump's announcement that a TikTok deal was coming. We will get further details on the specifics on Friday, but some points have already started to leak out. Beijing says that TikTok's US app will use Chinese algorithm Now we talked on Tuesday specifically about why TikTok is such a problem because the moderation for young people doesn't actually work. But also because the content pushed to young people through that algorithm is so toxic. Things like self harm, things like political radicalization that makes young people think, things like political assassination is okay. The algorithm is the ball game. And if there is a TikTok deal that allows China to maintain control of the algorithm, not only will it not actually fix the problem that Americans were worried about that President Trump was so worried about that he tried to ban TikTok in his first term. But it will also mean that this deal is still illegal under the law passed by Congress, signed into law by a president and upheld by the United States Supreme Court. So as we watch for details of this, who owns the algorithm and who controls it will be one of the most important factors to watch for your Can't Make it up segment Today we have a fun UK themed topic. This from Politico. King Charles will warn Trump about the fate of the planet. Trump probably won't listen. And as they cover this and talk about it, they talk about President Trump's first state visit in his first term. In the conversations that he had with then Prince Charles about climate change, one topic dominated. He Trump said, hesitating momentarily, he is really into climate change. I love to imagine President Trump telling this story in his way of storytelling.
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He'S really into climate change. And I also love the idea of King Charles, a literal monarch, being the face of the climate alarmism movement because it is in fact a priority of the elites who are so often willing to say we're okay for for working families to have to pay more for gas, to warm their homes, to do anything because it might affect this abstract academic priority of lowering global temperatures. They're willing to kill the rainforest to build a few more electric car batteries. For rich people in the United States, it has always been a high class elite priority. And it reminds me a little bit to have someone like King Charles, an elite who's never worked a day in his life. Now again, no shade to the royals, but a guy who's never worked a day in his life be the face of this movement. And it reminds me a tiny bit of this hilarious scene from Downton Abbey.
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There are plenty of hours in the day and of course I'll have the weekend. We'll discuss this later. We mustn't bore the ladies.
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What is a weekend.