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Republican revolt over Utah governor after explosive Charlie Kirk feud revealed
Daily Mail UK ^ | September 12, 2025 | CHARLIE SPIERING

Posted on 09/12/2025 3:03:30 PM PDT by Morgana

Utah Governor Spencer Cox basked in praise for his 'unity' plea at Friday's FBI press conference — but the man whose alleged assassin he was discussing once wanted him expelled from the Republican Party.

Cox dominated the podium detailing Charlie Kirk's murder just three years after the TPUSA founder branded him a 'weak moderate' who 'should be expelled from the Republican party.'

The 2022 social media blast came after Cox vetoed a bill banning biological males from women's sports — a move that infuriated Kirk and conservative activists.

Now friends of the slain activist find it 'ironic' that the same governor Kirk wanted kicked out of the GOP pushed aside FBI officials to control the narrative around his death.

The feud ran deeper: Cox also threatened to veto a statewide ban on transgender surgeries for minors, prompting Kirk to accuse him of being 'paid off by Big Pharma who make billions off hormone blockers and chemical castration.'

Yet on Friday, in a stunning about-face, Cox opened the press conference by claiming he was 'inspired by Kirk's writings and beliefs' — urging the dead activist's followers to let their 'anger fade.'

The governor's sudden reverence for a man who'd savaged him as corrupt rang hollow to those who remembered their bitter public battles.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: charliekirk; dailyfaildotcrap; demedia; democratnarrative; govtplantknows; homosexualagenda; knowsbannonsmind; knowscharliesmind; tabloidnooz; unity
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1 posted on 09/12/2025 3:03:30 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Anyone here listen to his ingenuous pontification and immediately felt moved to strike up a chorus of Kumbyah?

/Bueller? Bueller?


2 posted on 09/12/2025 3:08:33 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: Morgana

A war of words is a bit different than murder, Daily Mail.


3 posted on 09/12/2025 3:08:52 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Morgana

He did a good job in the last couple of days. However, remain vigilant and keep an eye on him.


4 posted on 09/12/2025 3:09:09 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: Morgana

The governor there is a politician. Nothing more.


5 posted on 09/12/2025 3:09:42 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: Salamander

It came across more as a verbal Ipecac.


6 posted on 09/12/2025 3:09:59 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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To: Morgana

The young man was VISCIUOSLY murdered and the governor did all he could do to help catch the murderer and praised Charlie. So let’s gossip about a year’s old fued between these two men. Absolutely disgusting from UK Mail.


7 posted on 09/12/2025 3:10:04 PM PDT by frogjerk
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>> The governor’s sudden reverence

Who recalls Rush saying that the Left is faking its flag-waving patriotism after 9-11?


8 posted on 09/12/2025 3:10:32 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: Morgana

Thank you for posting.

Another wolf in sheep’s clothing.


9 posted on 09/12/2025 3:10:32 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Morgana
'While the good and decent Charlie Kirk lies in a mortuary awaiting burial he tells us to invite Democrats over for a cookout - the radical left that burns Portland daily and shoots up school kids weekly.'

Bannon seems to conflate all 'Democrats' with violent radical leftists; and it seems to me that Charlie Kirk DID routinely invite people of differing opinions to a 'cookout'.
10 posted on 09/12/2025 3:12:41 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Morgana

Well played.

😆


11 posted on 09/12/2025 3:13:10 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: Jamestown1630

Charlie was not afraid of going into the lion’s den.


12 posted on 09/12/2025 3:13:57 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dfwgator

I think Charlie’s desire was to persuade people with a positive message given from a loving stance.


13 posted on 09/12/2025 3:16:00 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: KingLudd

Just so. Dwelling on before doesn’t help anything


14 posted on 09/12/2025 3:16:43 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: frogjerk

Have you ever heard of political expediency? This governor had no choice. As a matter of fact why was there so much press on the captor of two other people before they got him. They had those videos in the first few hours. Kash Patel shows up last night and voila, they nail him in hours. Now they are saying he acted alone. With the 4chan revelations I highly doubt that.


15 posted on 09/12/2025 3:20:08 PM PDT by 2Dreamin
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To: Morgana

A lot of water has gone under the bridge in three years.
For that matter, a lot of water has gone under the bridge in three days.

It’s a different world, now.


16 posted on 09/12/2025 3:21:15 PM PDT by cross_bearer_02
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To: Morgana
It was obvious that Spencer Cox is a weak sister. He blabbed and blabbed about someone in death, someone for whom he had no respect for in life. Spencer Cox is cut from the the same Magic Underwear® as Mittens. A phony and a liar.

17 posted on 09/12/2025 3:21:51 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: frogjerk
Gov. Cox called social media ‘a cancer on our society right now

What did Cox say about television big media who've been peddling lies and hate for decades?

18 posted on 09/12/2025 3:23:53 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Morgana

So what? Politicians feud and fight all the time.

When faced with the tragedy, the Governor was nothing less than compassionate and sincere.

I was impressed. But I live in IL so any governor with an IQ higher than the speed limit would impress me.


19 posted on 09/12/2025 3:23:58 PM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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To: ckilmer

Cox vetoed a bill banning biological males from women’s sports “

A worthless POS is what he is.


20 posted on 09/12/2025 3:28:54 PM PDT by iamgalt
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