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Exclusive — Blake Neff on Alex Marlow Show: Charlie Kirk Was ‘Special’ as He Tried to Implement Solutions
Marlow spoke to Neff as part of his series of speaking with people who were close to Kirk one year after his devastating assassination. Marlow noted that Neff has an interesting story, as he was canceled from his job at Fox News when old anonymous online posts resurfaced. But Kirk quickly elevated him.
“I would say it was – it’s just that three years of working with him, it was just a steadily escalating process of admiring him more and more, seeing all the different ways he was a tremendous person for our country, for our movement, and that he was a consistently growing person,” Neff said. “He was always someone looking to become better, and I think that’s what really struck me in as we got into 2025.”
“Just seeing this is a guy who — he was a profoundly talented person when I first started working for him, but he’d become so much better at podcasting, at speaking, at organizing, at leading a movement of people, and he just endlessly impressed me. And as we hit this one year mark, it still hurts; not just knowing that I lost a great friend and a great boss, but that we lost this great leader and a person who was only reaching the peak of his — who hadn’t yet reached the peak of his tremendous potential,” Neff said, discussing all that Kirk did for him and the movement.
As if the Neff guy would lick the bottom of Charlie's boots. But it was not only just Charlie being Charlie, the Great. There is more to say -
“I took a lot of pride that in ’23 and ’24, when he’s building out Turning Point Action’s ballot chasing operation, when he’s making the pitch to donors, when he’s making the pitch at events why people should vote early, he was using — he was proud to use talking points that I’d hashed with him, and then that won people over, and we saw the result in ’24,” Neff said, noting that Kirk was “very proud that of all the swing states, Arizona, the one he put the most work into, that they built the most operation in, that was the one that moved the most towards President Trump.”
“I think seven or eight points when the nation moved three or four, and I was very glad that I could play a role with him on that, on messaging about the border and immigration, about DEI, so many things,” Neff said.
Jeez, dancing my dance, on Charlie's grave. Sad stuff. And they could not stop there. Headline another.
“I think those people have lost power,” Marlow said of conspiracy theorists. “But it happened, and it’s still happening.”
“As we’re having this conversation, we’re watching a huge chunk of the country run to the defense of a woman who we know slaughtered her children,” Marlow added, referring to the Lindsay Clancy case. “It is very dark, and I just wonder if something snapped in this country.”
The Breitbart News editor-in-chief then asked Kolvet for his take on the way society has behaved in the aftermath of Charlie’s assassination.
“I do believe that we are, as a culture, experiencing some amount of a mass psychosis event,” Kolvet replied. “It’s the crime junkie culture. It’s the TikTok brain. It’s the therapy brain.”
“And I love that you said they’ve lost power,” he continued. “Because I think what people are realizing over time is the lines get clearly drawn.”
“At the very beginning, in the immediate aftermath, I was skeptical of everything,” Kolvet said. “I wanted every lead down — but, eventually, you kind of have to get to the point where, ‘Hey, I have no evidence for any of those things.'”
After being asked to share something from Robinson’s trial that he feels “is not coming through” and that he would want people to understand, Kolvet replied, “I was in the courtroom for the bind-over hearing and it was remarkable being in that room and seeing the process of the legal system play out and feeling the emotions.”
“You can feel the energy of both the state and the defense counsel — the energy of his family, Tyler Robinson’s family. You can feel the energy of Erika and her family,” he added. “And it’s wild when you’re in that room how all that conspiracy nonsense just fades away.”
“It has zero credibility. It has zero currency in that room,” Kolvet asserted. “You have to be based in facts and logic. And that was something that struck me — when you’re in that room, you realize that you’re hemmed in by the process of justice.”
The Turning Point USA spokesperson added, “When you just put it all together, it’s really one of the more remarkable open-and-shut cases,” before revealing that many prosecutors, trial attorneys, and judges have reached out to him to say “this is the most open-and-shut case that they have ever seen just in terms of sheer amount of evidence.”
Kolvet also said he “wasn’t surprised” when Judge Tony Graf ruled last week that Robinson can stand trial for aggravated murder and six other charges.
Robinson, who could face the death penalty if convicted, will appear for a court hearing again on October 23, at which point a trial date is expected to be set.
In responding to conspiracy theorists having noted that Robinson pled not guilty, Kolvet explained that the defense attorneys’ “one goal in all of this” is to “keep the death penalty off the table.”
“The state’s not offering them a deal. They want to go for the death penalty,” he said. “You would never plead guilty if there wasn’t a deal on the table. And the state’s not offering one.”
“So, the only way you can get him off death row is you got to take this thing to trial and try and whittle away a jury’s perception of the aggravating factors,” Kolvet added. “Him pleading not guilty was a procedural move that keeps his leverage to get him off death row. That’s all it was.”
Near the end of their talk, Marlow praised Kolvet and others on staff for continuing on with The Charlie Kirk Show, stressing, “This is how you keep Charlie’s voice alive.”
“A lot of people thought that after Andrew Breitbart died, we should shut down breitbart.com. How do you think Andrew would be feeling now, knowing what Breitbart accomplished?” Marlow asked, to which Kolvet replied, “He would be really proud of you guys.”
Yes. We could have shut it down but there was money on the table, etc. Just like when Andrew died, money on the table is money on the table and you do not just walk. You take.
And on the anniversary, That Tyler guy did it, nothing else to see. Convincing, isn't it? Almost a too easy buy.
UPDATE: Mourning Charlie Day is not the only news at Breitbart. There is this -
The Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA) was first proposed by Durbin and Marshall in 2022 before they reintroduced it in January, arguing that it would “increase competition in the credit card market and put an end to the Visa-Mastercard duopoly.” Originally, the legislation was cosponsored by then-Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), and Sens. Peter Welch (D-VT), Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Jack Reed (D-RI).
Under the current system, merchants who accept credit cards get locked into whatever payment system that card runs on, and pays whatever fee that network charges. Visa and Mastercard dominate over 80 percent of the market.
If passed, the CCCA would require banks with more than $100 billion in assets to offer merchants a choice of at least two networks over which a credit transaction can be processed, including one that is neither Mastercard nor Visa.
While proponents argue that the legislation would benefit merchants by lowering operational costs associated with accepting Visa or Mastercard so they could pass on those savings to consumers, opponents of the bill say that those stores will just keep those savings for themselves, and that credit cards companies may take away rewards to make up for their lost revenue.
On top of that, critics of the CCCA have also raised concerns about security risks that consumers could face if merchants use cheaper payment systems.
Okay, let's see the spin on that one.
Speaking with Breitbart News economy columnist John Carney during a Tuesday policy event in Washington, D.C. with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Simpson highlighted vulnerabilities in payment systems that could harm consumers as a result of the bill.
“A lot of people are worried about fraud and cybersecurity, and this could impact the ability of issuers to be able to, especially I think credit unions, but all issuers to be able to deal with fraud and cybersecurity,” Carney said
Simpson replied, “Yeah, that’s what the interchange system is built for — is to establish contracts with the American consumers and reliable protection. Well, that protection comes at the expense of the issuer”
“We look at the biggest data breaches in the history of our country and they tend to come from retailers because they don’t have incentives,” Simpson continued. “They’re not incentivized by the system to protect that data, and so it gives us zero confidence as issuers.”
Hundred billion dollar banks cannot put an alternate secure system together so let's just status quo things? That is kind of like Tom Emmer saying the banking system is insecure and fraught with threats and risk, so crypto is the answer. Not a CBDC. Put it, at least a portfolio part, in crypto.
Emmer in turn rings as true as having credit card profiteer employed folks defend the bona fides of credit card giants, to help and protect you. To keep you secure, always with your best interest in mind. The higher that interest, the better.
And -- Isn't it interesting how Brietbart can get all those excusives? They do wonderful work. Full of wondering. Enough, but if you go to their site, Southcom blew up another Caribbean fishing boat. That's how many now. Excuse, it was a high performance boat on a drug smuggling route. They tell you so. My error.