Ep. 2014 - Biggest Blow To Charlie Kirk Conspiracies Comes From Tyler Robinson's Defense

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**Michael Knowles** (0:33)
I go away for one week and I need a five hour episode to get through everything that happened. Senator Lindsey Graham dies unexpectedly after a heart attack. Senator Mitch McConnell might be alive after a heart attack, but no one's really sure. America is fully back at war with Iran. And the pre-trial hearing of Charlie Kirk's alleged murderer, Tyler Robinson, deals what should be a deathblow to the conspiracy theories and somehow almost no one is talking about what that specific deathblow is. I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show. I was in New York for the week, for over a week in Mamdaniistan, and Zoran Mamdani, just before I get there, he does something unforgivable. He cuts little Italy out of the map of immigrant neighborhoods. That is anti-Italian discrimination. We'll get to everything. We'll get to all of it if we have time. First up, I guess the biggest news of the day, of the last two days, Senator Lindsey Graham dies totally unexpectedly. He was 71 years old. He was just overseas in, where was he, Kiev. He looked good, relatively good, as far as 71-year-old senators go. Then he drops dead of a heart attack.
There's all sorts of commentary flowing around here. There are some conspiracy theories, which, again, this reminds me of when Antonin Scalia died. Antonin Scalia, who was 79, he was pretty overweight. He was an Italian man who was not in the best of shape. People said, Obama must have had him killed. He'd been on a hunting trip, just had a big dinner and was found dead in his bed in his pajamas the next morning. I thought, when a 79-year-old man who is fairly overweight, big Italian guy, I think probably liked his Gaba Ghoul and Mortadella a little bit, as do we all. I don't know. When a 79-year-old Italian man who's not in the best of shape is found dead, my mind doesn't immediately go to Michelle Obama holding a pillow over his head. That just sort of happens. Even Lindsey Graham is a bit younger, 71 years old. 71 years old is not 31 years old or 41 years old. I don't know that he was in the best of shape.
The evidence seems to be he had a little bit of a heart condition and he died. Very, very sad. Then some people in the commentary, they want to talk about how much they didn't like Lindsey Graham because they disagreed to this foreign policy or this or that or the other thing. I met Lindsey Graham one time. I had the privilege of meeting him one time. This was in the early, early days of the Verdict podcast. Senator Cruz invited him over from Capitol Hill.
I can tell you Lindsey Graham was the single funniest guest I have ever interviewed on a podcast, on any podcast, on any show that I've ever had. He was instantly likable. He was very generous with his time. He was very knowledgeable. He was a terrific guest. By all accounts, you're hearing from people who were his allies in the Republican Party, people who didn't like him in the Republican Party. You're hearing from even Democrats. At a personal level, everybody really seemed to like Lindsey Graham. And from the tiny, tiny little bit that I knew him, I really liked him too. So we should all pray for him, RIP, Requiescat, and Pache. The people who want to start attacking him right now, would just remind you of some ancient wisdom, which is De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Of the dead, we speak nothing but good. This is wisdom that comes from Cailon of Sparta in the sixth century BC. He is one of the seven sages of Greece.
A lot of people, a lot of people want to come after him. There was this person, what's her name? Anikas Sperangi. He goes, good riddance. Just reminded of some other wisdom. We're using a lot of ancient to medieval languages here.