Fear, fury and Charlie Kirk’s killing
Front Burner12 Sep 2025

Fear, fury and Charlie Kirk’s killing

American conservative media figure and activist Charlie Kirk was one of the most prominent young voices of the American right. The founder of Turning Point USA, a close ally of Donald Trump, and a figure who helped shape the culture and pipeline of the MAGA movement.


On Wednesday, he was shot at one of his trademark campus debate events at Utah Valley University.


Will Sommer, a senior reporter with The Bulwark, joins the show to break down the shooting, how rhetoric around the killing is escalating, and how it all connects to the growing atmosphere of political violence in the United States.


For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts

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