The Romney-Netanyahu Friendship and Its Place in Assassination Speculation

Showing 36 Mitt Romney videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Mitt Romney's decades-long friendship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which the two formed while working together at Boston Consulting Group in 1976, became the entry point for one strand of speculation following Charlie Kirk's assassination. Candace Owens's investigation cited the documented relationship, along with Romney's family history of political influence in Utah and Brigham Young University's institutional ties to overseas programs, as circumstantial threads she wove into a broader unproven theory connecting Israeli interests to Kirk's death; those specific claims about a coordinated plot remain unverified and are not detailed further here. Outside that speculation, Romney appears only incidentally across Kirk's broader political content, largely as a figure from an earlier era of Republican politics whose more moderate, establishment-aligned brand Kirk's own movement was frequently built in explicit contrast to, favoring a more combative, populist style aimed at younger conservative audiences instead. That contrast became especially visible as Kirk built Turning Point USA into an organization that repeatedly positioned itself against the kind of cautious, consensus-driven Republicanism Romney had long represented, arguing that direct confrontation on campuses and in media, not polite deference to institutional norms, was what the moment actually required.