A year later Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the conservative influencers who were the loudest in his defense are facing increasing threats from left-wing agitators.
Popular conservative voices Benny Johnson, Laura Loomer and Robby Starbuck have all had threats on their lives since Kirk was shot in front of a student crowd in Utah Valley University last September.
Kirk was 31 when a single bullet killed Turning Point’s leader. Now prosecutors in Utah are seeking the death penalty Tyler Robinsonthe 23-year-old charged with the murder.
Johnson, a longtime Turning Point employee and friend of Kirk’s, received a moving letter Florida home a few days after Kirk died.
‘Maybe someone will blow your head off!!! We can hope! Do you have public appointments planned? “I love seeing your head explode and your blood turning the concrete red,” the letter read.
The alleged sender, according to prosecutors, was George Isbell Jr., a 69-year-old from San Diego who now faces a federal charge for sending it.
The letter attacked Johnson as supporting a “white cis-Christian Trump” and said the writer would take joy in widowing his wife and orphaning his four children.
A month later, Loomer, an outspoken right-wing Trump supporter with more than a million followers on X, faced anti-Semitic death threats on the social media platform.
A year after Charlie Kirk was murdered, the conservative influencers who were the loudest in his defense are facing increasing threats from left-wing agitators online.
Johnson, a longtime Turning Point employee and Kirk’s friend, had a letter delivered to his Florida home a few days after Kirk’s death
Loomer, an outspoken right-wing Trump supporter with more than a million followers on X, faced anti-Semitic death threats on the social media platform
Kirk’s death, which many on the right say united conservatives across the country, has done nothing to slow the threats or violence.
Prosecutors say a 28-year-old from Spring, Texas, named Nicholas Ray, who went by the X handle @zionistarescum, targeted Loomer along with other conservative influencers.
Ray wrote that he would hang her on the Smithsonian, telling Babylon Bee boss Seth Dillon “you’re living on borrowed time” after deciding that Dillon had helped Israel plan Kirk’s murder.
Ray began reporting five days after the shooting and Florida has since charged him with 12 charges, including terroristic threats and extortion.
Meanwhile, explicit death threats have been sent to Starbuck and his home address has been posted online.
He blames Google’s AI chatbot for falsely telling millions of users he was a criminal and a sex abuser, saying the threats followed the lies.
Starbuck, 37, sued Google last October for at least $15 million. Google tried to throw the case out, but lost.
On July 24, Delaware Superior Court Judge Meghan Adams ruled that the lawsuit could proceed, noting that Google never claimed the statements were true.
The case is now under discovery, with Starbuck’s lawyers able to request internal data on how the AI came up with a criminal record for him.
The letter attacked Johnson as an advocate of “white cis Christian Trump” and said the writer would take joy in widowing his wife and orphaning his four children.
Starbuck, 37, sued Google last October for at least $15 million. Google tried to have the case dismissed, but was unsuccessful
Last week, an LA podcaster named Benjamin Southworth, 40, was indicted for threatening to kill Trump and for posting the home address of the president’s attorney, Jay Sekulow, in Tennessee.
Kirk’s death, which many on the right say united conservatives across the country, has done nothing to slow the threats or violence.
