A PROMINENT US church leader says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered Charlie Kirk $150 million shortly before his death. The purpose of the money was to “toe the Israeli line” and “stop asking questions about Israel”. Kirk turned him down.
Pastor Chuck Baldwin, an outspoken opponent of the popular Christian Zionism followed by some 80% of American churches, also said one of TPUSA’s major donors, Netanyahu associate and billionaire, Bill Ackman, offered $1 million to the family of the accused shooter Tyler Robinson, to turn him in.
This happened after Netanyahu had called Kirk offering the bribe and when Kirk was called to Ackman’s Hamptons, New York, home, where he was brow-beaten by Ackman and others for his anti-Israel stance.
Baldwin said right after that meeting Kirk went on Megyn Kelly’s YouTube channel to tell the world “that Israeli big shots were threatening him”. “He also repeated this to his friends in private and told them he was afraid that Israel was going to assassinate him after these two encounters.”
Online vlogger Candace Owens has made a similar but less blunt allegation, confirmed by her contacts within TPUSA, who she previously worked for alongside Kirk. “I know that Charlie was offered a ton of money in this moment,” she said in a recent broadcast after Kirk’s death, referring to the call made by Netanyahu.
“I know for a fact that Charlie denied that funding … he [also] declined to go to Israel,” she said.
Independent journalist Megyn Kelly has also been following the story closely. In a recent broadcast she cited Max Blumenthal, another independent journalist, as saying that Kirk had been “hammered” by
Ackman and others at the Hamptons meeting and “came away fretting about Israeli blackmail”.
Blumenthal had spoken to five people who attended and said Ackman confronted Kirk over his views on Israel and an unknown British woman began screaming at Charlie when his host presented him with a list of all the supposed offences he had committed against Israel.
Blumenthal also said Ackman demanded that Kirk withdraw his invitation to Tucker Carlson to speak at the upcoming Americafest conference.
Baldwin continued in his update message to say that Kirk rejected Netanyahu’s bribe “firmly, adamantly and angrily”. “He was insulted that he would be even made such a bribe.”
Baldwin also expressed concerns about Kirk’s wife Erika taking the helm at TPUSA. “I’m not convinced that she shares Charlie’s newfound convictions about Israel.
“My feeling is that she is very, very pro-Zionist and my fear is that she will take the helm, she will get the money, she will get the Zionist backing, they will control the narrative, and she will try to turn the thoughts, and the hearts and the minds of all the young people that follow Charlie and are now questioning Zionist Israel and our unconditional support for the genocide in Gaza etcetera.”
Perhaps not coincidentally, Bibi Netanyahu is now visiting the White House, again, with Trump calling it “one of the great days of civilization”. However Netanyahu looked uncomfortable.
Trump went on to outline his international efforts to bring about a peace deal in the Middle East.
Baldwin, who is described as an Independent Baptist, was the founder of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida, before falling out with the US evangelical establishment over his opposition to Zionism about two decades ago.
Baldwin in 2024 was in effect banished from Florida to Liberty Fellowship in Kalispell, Montana, where he is the senior pastor. He has been roundly condemned by all manner of groups on both the left and right of US politics.
He was the presidential nominee of the Constitution Party in the 2008 US presidential election and hosts a daily one-hour radio program, Chuck Baldwin Live, and writes a daily editorial column carried on its website, as well as on VDare. He is a former editor of NewsWithViews.com.
Baldwin was a long-time Republican Party member and chaired the Florida Moral Majority in the 1980s.
Baldwin fell out with the Republicans during the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush, who he saw as a threat to the US republic. Baldwin endorsed Ron Paul for the 2008 Republican nomination for president, and Paul in turn endorsed Baldwin for the presidency in the 2008 general election.
Baldwin’s Wikipedia states that “He identifies as an anti-Zionist, believing that Zionism is the main threat to the US, and says Zionists control the media, “the mainstream Christian religion, and the US government” and says Zionism has corrupted US society and culture.
