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You'Re listening to the Buck Sexton show podcast. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, so text messages have been shared by the FBI relating to the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk. It looks like this guy confessed. We all believe he's the guy. Couldn't be any more clear. But you know, alleged is the legal requirement and reporting on these things. So we look at this text exchange and Clay and I talked to this on radio today and it seems very strange to me. It seems very strange because one aspect of it doesn't add up at all. People have pointed to the way that it's written and said that there's something off about it. Sure, that I think is true. But also the hyper focus that this guy has or the focus that he has on not leaving behind evidence when he left behind the murder weapon at basically the scene and then he's writing online about what he did. That just doesn't make any sense. Right. Why would you confess online if you were concerned about leaving behind the weapon? Which makes me think that he wants us to believe that he, he thought he could get away with this. I mean, think about that for a moment. The most high profile political assassination in this country in, I mean, since the 60s really. And he thought that it wasn't his plan apparently to try to get to the standard get away with horrible thing plan would be for an assassin, really for anybody get out of America to a non extradition country. A standard way to do this would be go to Mexico where there'll be less law enforcement scrutiny. So you just cross into Mexico and then you find your non extradition. By the way, most non extradition countries are pretty nasty places. You wouldn't really want to be. No surprise. But there are non extradition countries out there where you could be. And it'd be very hard for the US to be able to get you brought back to the States to stand trial. For example, if you're a Russian national and you make it back to Russia, they will not extradite. I believe the same thing's true of China, that they will just not extradite people to us. But there are other countries we just have no agreement. But keep in mind the lack of an agreement. This is getting a little in the weeds. The lack of an agreement doesn't mean that that country refuses to extradite somebody. It just means there's not a process in place. So it's not as straightforward as I understand it as you just get to a place. But anyway, if you look at this plan, the plan overall, as I see it, is that they are going, or rather that he was going to try. This is like, does he use they, them pronouns? No, that's the other individual that he was going to try to get away with this. And that I think is just utterly bizarre. There's no way that he could have really believed that he was going to get away with this. So that's why the text message exchange doesn't really add up. That's why there's something very off about this. And there's also now Kash Patel telling everybody that there's been more, that they found these left wing nihilistic terrorists that are, that are gathering together online. The FBI is looking at these different discord chats and channels and trying to find where they are not just grouping together, but perhaps conspiring together, you know, coordinating. It is hard for me to believe. Let me just say this. It is hard for me to believe that this individual did not tell anyone, including his trans furry roommate lover, which is. This is all law enforcement confirmed. But that's the individual's a trans furry roommate who's also his lover. It is hard for me to believe that he didn't tell that person that he was going to do this. Maybe he didn't, but I just, I'm highly skeptical. It is also hard for me to believe that he did not say this to anybody else in advance. Now he claims that he only planned this for a week. It might have been much longer than that as well. There's something of the throwing us off the scent, throwing us off the scent of the truth here that comes across in this text exchange that the FBI is published, by the way. I think it's a good thing that the FBI is getting this information out to us sooner. I think that it makes sense to let the public know because there's enormous public interest in all aspects of this investigation. So I'll come back to more of that here in just a second. When inflation lingers, when unemployment figures are going the wrong direction, when we're hearing of a forthcoming federal government budget stalemate. These are things you have no control over. Do they ever make you think, though? Maybe now would be a good time to buy some gold. Whether as a hedge against inflation or just for smart diversification. Birch Gold Group believes every American should own physical gold. 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I mean this is intentionally, this is insidious lying because it's meant to form ideas in the heads of ill informed stupid people that are not true. And that is what Jimmy Kimmel is doing. First of all, why is Jimmy Kimmel even talking about this? Why is it even coming up at this point in a monologue in a comedy show? Part one. I mean this is what we've seen with these late night shows in particular. It's like everybody has decided they're a political commentator. No, some people are too stupid for politics. A lot of people are. A lot of people in the media are. Honestly, there are people that are good at making, you know, knock knock and you know, yuck yuck and haha jokes that should not be weighing in on things of importance in front of the public. Now they're allowed. They're oh how dare you. They're allowed to. But they're not good at it because they're too dumb. Because they don't know anything. And Jimmy Kimmel is in that category. He is too dumb. He does not know anything. Or maybe he knows what his paymasters tell him to say and that's what he is willing to do. That's the lengths he's willing to go to really make an absolute fool and buffoon of himself. Because the people who are saying that this has not been made clear. There was another exchange with Kaitlan Collins and Ted Cruz where Ted Cruz, Senator Cruz is saying, we know what the motive is. We know what the motive. And Kaitlan Collins is interrupting him, being very aggressive, pretending that we don't know. Well, of course we do, because the prosecutor in the case has already said this was a political motive. How could it be? So it's obvious that it's a political motive. And it is already stated by law enforcement that it's a political motive. That's what a prosecutor's part of the law enforcement apparatus. So why are they pretending like this is confusing? Why is there this pretense that we don't know? Because they want to delay. They want to tell people that we can't know yet, just wait. And they want this to fade. They want the horror, they want the atrocity of what was done to our friend Charlie. They want that to begin to fade in the public consciousness. I know you say, oh, but it will never fade. The public has a very, unfortunately, short term memory about a lot of things. And the media is going to twist things. They're going to fabricate, they're going to try to rewrite this history in real time. And they think that there will be less consequence to the Democrats, less consequences to, to them politically if in fact, they are able to play this delay game. This is where we get. And they used to do this with jihadist terrorists. Sorry, guys, my. I'm struggling with a cold, My voice a little off. This is where they. With jihadists, they would always say, we may never know the motive. Really, we don't know the motive when somebody with a suicide vest on or somebody with a, with a gun goes into a, you know, a pizzeria or something and starts shooting everybody and is yelling Allahu Akbar. I think we know the motive. But they would even do that then, they would play that game then, because they don't want the general public, the. And especially the low information voters out there, the low information thinkers, to understand what's really going on. And that's where Jimmy Kimmel comes in. And that's honestly Kaitlan Collins, who just does whatever so she can keep making millions of dollars. I mean, honestly, I have no. I knew Caitlin a little bit back in the day. I met her before. I met her when she worked the Daily Caller, which was Tucker Carlson's website. And she's always been a nice person to me. And. And I don't have any personal beef with her at all. And if I saw her, I, you know, would say hello. But, I mean, she does what she has to do to keep getting paid millions of dollars at cnn, because I have no idea why she's paid millions of dollars to be at cnn. Quite honestly. You know, like, to me, it seems to be quite clear. This is somebody who, I don't know, just does what she's told by management. So that's where that is, which a lot of people over there do. And that's what Chris Cuomo was doing, which has now come out as well, where he'll just take the position. He was taking the position that he needed to take to keep the, you know, four or five million bucks a year rolling in, no matter what he thought about, no matter how stupid the position was. Because Kaitlan Collins can't be. She's not so dumb. I know this. She's not so dumb that she doesn't know that in the press conference, the prosecutor said, because they were running it, they were streaming it on cnn. So I know that they know. But in the press conference, they said that this was a political motive, and we knew it was a political motive the instant that it happened. So none of this is surprising. None of this is surprising at all that the media is so dishonest and so disgraceful. Our sponsor here is Paradigm Press. AI is a big deal. As technology advances go, artificial intelligence will go down in history as a game changer in the way we live, the information we process and the efficiency of everything from armies to accounting and everything in between. President Trump wants to see our country emerge as a leader in AI, and he thinks this is crucial for the future of this country. It's as simple as that. And he's right. And this is why we've got an AR czar aizar rather to get us at the top of the game. I think this administration is preparing an estimated trillion dollars plus investment, drawing in multiple partners. It's what I call Manhattan Project 2. 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And that they pretend, and this is the part that bothers me the most, they pretend to care about the kids when it's always about the adults, right? They say, oh, it's. And I've interviewed Randi Weingarten. I mean, she's insufferable. It's always, it's for the children. It's for the children. No. Like extended pension plans and fatter benefits for teaching administrators, not even teachers. The real bloat, the real problem in the education system in this country is for every one teacher that's been added over the last 15 years or so, there's been six administrators added. These are people who sit in offices in education buildings and make, in some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars, by the way, to do almost nothing, to do nothing of any value, and to do almost nothing, period. Why is that something we're paying for? Anyway, that's my edge. I can get deeper in that education rant. But back to this. There are no fascists that are. That Riney Weingarten is talking about here. This is false. Fascists fear teachers. And then she says Trump right away. So our point here about how they claim that we are fascists so they can demean us and attack us and justify violence against us could not be more clear. They will not engage in a debate. They will just say, you're a fascist. That's just name calling. I mean, this is classic propaganda tactic. This is meant to avoid critical thinking. This is meant to avoid discussion, debate, dialogue. And this is all the left has these days. Anybody who understands what's going on with the education system in this country could sit down and absolutely annihilate Randy Weingarten's talking points in a heartbeat. But like I said, she is a union representative for public sector union employees who do not want to be held accountable, who do not want any change, who do not want any choice. And so she will use whatever slanders she has to to shut down the opposition and of course, to pretend it's all about the children. But here you have the teaching commissar herself, Randi Weingarten, referring to Trump voters as fascists. As fascists. Really? What is fascistic about school choice? What is fascistic about they shouldn't be teaching third graders books with pornography in them or first graders. That's what fascists do, really. So I think that we've all seen enough of the nonsense from the teachers unions to know that they're a blight on the American education system. There should be no public sector unions for teachers, period. All states should, if they were, if they were sane, would outlaw them. But it's a self licking ice cream cone of the Democrat party. The teachers unions make tons. All their donations go to Democrats. It's a lot of money. And then they keep voting Democrat and then the teachers union keeps demanding more and more, you know, especially retirement because it's easier to hide retirement benefits from the public because it takes a while for them to kick in. But they want these fat gold plated retirement and pension plans and everything else for teachers in different, in different states. Depends on the state. And that's what Randy Weingarten is really all about. So it's atrocious. But to call people fascists, you know, she's supposed to be representative of educators. She has no idea what a fascist is or if she does, she likes to lie about people being fascists and to slander them. Our sponsor here is Preborn. Every day there are thousands of women across our nation contending with an unplanned pregnancy. They've got very few options, they think, but here's an option that they should know about. Preborn. The preborn clinics are out there on the front lines giving them hope. And preborn offers life for that child and care and compassion and understanding for that pregnant mom that she may not get anywhere else. They start this process of giving that care and support with a free ultrasound. 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Buck Sexton
This is an iHeart podcast.
Host: Buck Sexton
Podcast: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show (iHeartPodcasts)
In this solo "Buck Brief," Buck Sexton addresses the latest developments in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Charlie Kirk. Buck analyzes the suspect’s behavior, the ongoing FBI investigation, and the media and political reaction—particularly the attempts by some on the left to downplay or redirect the narrative about the motives involved. He also spends time critiquing left-leaning voices in media and education, notably exchanges with Jimmy Kimmel, Kaitlan Collins, and Randi Weingarten, arguing they're engaging in misinformation and narrative manipulation.
Timestamps: 03:06 – 07:24
"We all believe he's the guy. Couldn't be any more clear. But you know, 'alleged' is the legal requirement in reporting on these things." (03:18)
"Why would you confess online if you were concerned about leaving behind the weapon?" (03:49)
"A standard way to do this would be go to Mexico where there'll be less law enforcement scrutiny... Most non-extradition countries are pretty nasty places." (04:34)
Timestamps: 07:24 – 08:10
"The FBI is looking at these different Discord chats and channels and trying to find where they are not just grouping together, but perhaps conspiring together." (07:53)
Timestamps: 08:10 – 13:42
"This is intentionally, this is insidious lying because it's meant to form ideas in the heads of ill-informed stupid people that are not true." (09:04) "Jimmy Kimmel is in that category. He is too dumb. He does not know anything. Or maybe he knows what his paymasters tell him to say..." (10:02)
"Kaitlan Collins is interrupting him, being very aggressive, pretending that we don't know. Well, of course we do, because the prosecutor in the case has already said this was a political motive." (10:59)
Timestamps: 13:42 – 14:24
"They would always say, we may never know the motive. ... I think we know the motive." (13:45)
Timestamps: 15:17 – 18:24
"The real bloat, the real problem in the education system in this country is for every one teacher that's been added over the last 15 years or so, there's been six administrators added." (16:40)
On the Suspect's Behavior:
"There's something of the throwing us off the scent, throwing us off the scent of the truth here that comes across in this text exchange that the FBI has published." (06:45)
On Political & Media Narrative:
"The media is going to twist things. They're going to fabricate, they're going to try to rewrite this history in real time... They're able to play this delay game." (12:57)
On Late-Night Political Commentary:
"No, some people are too stupid for politics. A lot of people are. A lot of people in the media are. Honestly, there are people that are good at making... yuck yuck and haha jokes that should not be weighing in on things of importance." (09:55)
On Public Education:
"Anybody who understands what's going on with the education system in this country could sit down and absolutely annihilate Randi Weingarten's talking points in a heartbeat." (17:55)
Buck Sexton delivers his analysis with urgency and skepticism, blending a direct, sometimes exasperated tone with sarcasm and humor. The discussion is peppered with pointed critiques of the media, Democratic political figures, and public-sector unions, conveying his frustration with what he sees as bad faith and manipulation in public discourse. He draws on personal anecdotes and brings in comparisons to wider political issues to underscore his points.
This episode serves as a pointed critique of both the handling of the Charlie Kirk assassination attempt and the ways Buck believes media and left-leaning figures seek to misdirect or minimize ideological motives when inconvenient. He interrogates the official narrative, points to possible conspiratorial undertones on the left, and ends with a takedown of current education policy debates, all threaded through his trademark combination of skepticism, seriousness, and biting satire.