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COMMENTARY by Benny Johnson — "🚨Democrats DESECRATE and Set Charlie Kirk Statue ON FIRE at TPUSA HQ | Photos Enrage Internet…" (published 2026-09-13).
This is third-party opinion/analysis ABOUT State of Utah v. Tyler James Robinson — NOT the court record. It is indexed for comparison against the primary transcripts/filings. Transcript is the YouTube auto-caption track (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42SFGo0hmsc) — verbatim ASR.
If you have any hesitation or wondering about why it is so essential for us from a survival standpoint to fight and win the culture wars, look no further than the newly unveiled Charlie Kirk statue in Phoenix, Arizona. At the Turning Point, USA headquarters, a place that I know well, a lifesized 6 foot5 Charlie Kirk statue was unveiled. It is a beautiful statue in what was called Charlie's Jordan moment where he was throwing out hats to students. Pretty iconic photograph that it's based off of in an iconic location there in Phoenix. And that statue survived exactly 48 hours after the anniversary of Charlie Kirk's murder by leftists. Leftists went and assaulted the men and women who unveiled a Charlie Kirk temporary statue in Time Square. And now they have desecrated the Charlie Kirk statue with red spray paint to indicate blood on his neck and face in Phoenix, Arizona. And so both Charlie Kirk statues have been desecrated along with of course Charlie's memory at least from the left. Those of us who are trying to preserve Charlie's memory face an uphill battle. I think in part because we haven't locked up and deported more leftists who made fun of Charlie Kirk or who planned his assassination or who are part of violent left-wing groups provably or are sedicious against our nation. This was a moment to go full January 6th I suppose and it just did never happened. And so because this has now become an edge lord meme and because the left has proven that they are here to dance on our graves. So who are my friends? My friends on earth are the ones who will mourn me when I'm gone. My enemies are the ones who will spit on my grave and mock my widow and my orphaned children. Right? And that's what they're doing to Charlie Kirk. That's what they've done here, ladies and gentlemen. Let's go ahead and view the local news story just breaking right now. Newly unveiled Charlie Kirk statue vandalized 48 hours after being erected on the date of Charlie Kirk's murder, anniversary of Kirk's killing. I I don't I reject that nomenclature. It's he was assassinated by lefttoids. He was assassinated by the left. He was murdered. He was found to face Sunday morning spray painted red. Nearby poster memorial in front of the statue was also vandalized in red. Uh go ahead and see the actual poster as well. What are people saying about this? Here we go. Truly abhorent. The Charlie Kirk statue was unveiled at Turning Point and overnight it was vandalized just days after it was unveiled. The left is intolerant and militant and evil exists. This symbolizes the ghouls that they actually are. They have no morals and they won't succeed. The fight is stronger than ever. We won't back down. Um I'll I'll like just take a big deep breath here and say this. You will know your enemies by the people who are willing to celebrate your death and dance on your grave and celebrate the death of your culture and the people around you. I have enemies in this move. You know, you have beef with people, right? It's the, you know, it's high octane movement. People have a lot of feelings, big feelings, and sometimes I get dragged into it. I try and stay out of it. But I know that my even the people that don't like me in my movement, right, the the greater America first movement, right, of the right, the populist right, that is the movement I am a part of. I know that even the people that don't like me in that movement or who fight with me in that movement, they would mourn me if I something terrible were to happen. It's this this not and I would warn them, of course. Is this not a clarifying moment that who our actual enemy is? Here we go. Here's the memorial of Charlie. You can see the flowers still fresh. Look at this. It looks like they tried to light it on fire. You can see here there was a uh it was lit on fire. You can see some of the flowers have been placed there. Some small items and knickknacks. And Charlie's face was spray painted out. and desecrated it. This is, of course, uh, open and available to the public, this memorial. They tried to light it on fire. Look at that. Looks like they used some kerosene and tried to spray paint it and light it. This morning, we woke up to radical criminals vandalizing our headquarters. They're not radical. This is the mainstream in the Democrat party. Crossing off Charlie's face, scratching out Jesus and the cross, spray painting red on his neck. This is not the country we want to live in. Oh man. Oh, it makes you sick. Vile, wicked people. You don't hate them enough. This is sick. Charlie Kirk statue outside of Turning Point is just an escalation. It wasn't at some college campus. This was right outside of their door. Totally illegal. easily arrest them for this spineless performative administration wouldn't dare because it can't handle bad press. They're emboldened and conservative politicians and tough guy law enforcement will do nothing. Um, well, prove them wrong. Turning Point has a lot of cameras. I know this. I've worked at Turning Point. I've been to this headquarters many times. That didn't used to be this way, by the way. They didn't used to have you used to be able to just walk right up. There didn't used to be a security system really in the building at all. This fence is new. The barriers are brand new. You know, when Charlie Charlie was there every single day, working there every single day, and I was there many days. And you didn't have to have this. You didn't have to have all of the protections and, you know, treat this like it was a minimum security prison, you know, to keep people out instead of in. And here it is, ladies and gentlemen. You cannot coexist with the left. They will murder you. They'll vandalize your statues. They'll celebrate your death. They'll celebrate it. It can't go on like this. They're so ugly. They're so evil. They're so low. They're so depraved. They're so despicable. They're so unholy. Some people are just outright stupid. There are so many cameras in that area. You're going to get caught. You're going to be prosecuted. You're going to be named to the public. People will see. I mean, they did this with Charlie Kirk's last memorial. You remember that guy dressed like Tyler Robinson came running through and kicking all the flowers and all the knick-knacks that were left for Charlie. But listen, we've seen uh young sorority girls celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder. Miss Arizona, Miss Oklahoma. Correction. This is Miss Oklahoma celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder. A bunch of foreigners celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder. At least they got kicked out the country. And you deported, right? But goodness gracious, it's just sickening. It's sickening. Netflix still has this up, right? And on the date of on the date of Charlie Kirk's murder, nearly did himself a neck injury with an actor that really does look a lot like Charlie Kirk in my in my honest opinion. 33 million views, 150,000 likes, 16,000 reposts, and it's still up. What kind of country are we living in? What kind of a country are we building? It's pretty obvious to see who the godless people are. Never in the history of this channel or this program have I ever called for violence or ever celebrated something bad happening to people. I think that Joe Biden wrecked the country. And I don't like Joe Biden at all. I can't really think of anything to like about Joe Biden to be perfectly honest with you. But Joe Biden got a terminal cancer diagnosis. We didn't dance. We didn't celebrate. We said a prayer for him. And that's what you should do. That just means you have a soul. I mean, ultimately, it's these people's souls and that are the most at risk. So, ladies and gentlemen, keep praying, keep fighting. This is what we're up against.