Why the Kirk Assassination Is trump’s Perfect Smoke Screen

Conspiracy theories are swirling, helping authoritarian trump win. Here’s how to stop his momentum.

I have a hell of an imagination, especially when bad things happen.

Don’t ever ask me, “What’s the worst that can happen?” because my Murphy’s Law-trained mind can conjure up ten awful, nefarious disasters without breaking a sweat.

I don’t consider myself a negative or cynical person, but I do subscribe to “hope for the best, but expect the worst.” It’s much easier to imagine “the worst” when peculiar things happen publicly with no transparency or truthful answers from the powers that be. It creates fertile ground for conspiracy theories.

The bigger the mystery, the stranger the circumstances, the easier it is to fall down a rabbit hole of “what if?”

I’m referring to the mysterious assassination of Charlie Kirk. Buckle up and stay with me; this is going to be a wild ride.

I remember my best friend’s mom, Joann, a powerhouse progressive who told me, “I don’t believe anything I see and only half of what I hear. Question everything.”

Years later, I read a Dean Koontz novel, False Memory, where a woman seeks psychological help for an acute, crippling mental condition, and the psychotherapist uses hypnosis to implant false memories and post-hypnotic suggestions. He explained he’d used hypnosis to cultivate “sleeper agents” he could activate with a phone call whenever a powerful politician needed a distraction.

Let that last part sink in for a minute: “whenever a powerful politician needed a distraction.”

Fast forward to last year, when trump held a rally in Butler, PA, that ended abruptly when a lone gunman’s bullets rang out. trump was swarmed by Secret Service agents who paused, allowing him to fully expose his head and torso for a potential second shooter. The gun used was an AR-15 that supposedly nicked trump’s ear, which miraculously healed seven days later—almost Jesus-like.

Fast forward again to February 2025, when trump’s Attorney General (and main cheerleader), Pam Bondi, told reporters she was about to examine the Epstein list that would implicate dozens or hundreds of lowlife pedophiles, which trump campaigned on tirelessly.

Three months later, there was suddenly no Epstein list.