Glenn Greenwald's Commentary on Kirk's Death and Institutions
Showing 9 Glenn Greenwald videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Glenn Greenwald's commentary spans both a direct response to Charlie Kirk's assassination and several appearances as a guest on Kirk's own show before his death. After the shooting, Greenwald warned against overcorrecting in either direction, cautioning that calls for sweeping crackdowns on entire political factions carry the same authoritarian risk as excusing political violence outright, and drew comparisons to post-9/11 civil-liberties overreach and COINTELPRO-era abuses. In earlier appearances with Kirk, an unusual pairing given their differing politics, Greenwald argued that Donald Trump's 2024 victory proved establishment institutions had lost their grip on public trust more decisively than in 2016, pointing to Democratic campaign staff who publicly refused to take responsibility for Kamala Harris's loss. Greenwald also criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson for abandoning his own past positions on FISA surveillance and warrantless spying once in power, and separately warned that expanding anti-discrimination law through measures like the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act risks criminalizing criticism of a single foreign country in ways no other nation receives.