Addressing Charlie Kirk Conspiracies | Brandon Tatum

[00:00] I am perplexed

[00:04] that people in the body of Christ are

[00:06] divided on this idea.

[00:08] To me, it's very clear when you read the

[00:10] Bible the admiration and respect that we

[00:14] should have as Christians

[00:16] for the nation of Israel and the people

[00:18] of Israel. That does not mean that we

[00:22] supposed to, you know, trust and believe

[00:24] everything the government is saying. the

[00:27] government changes. The person that's

[00:30] the prime minister today come November

[00:32] may not be the prime minister. So your

[00:35] loyalty to a person or a government does

[00:37] not or your disloyalty to the the

[00:39] government, whichever way you look at

[00:41] it, does not negate what the promise of

[00:43] God was to the people of Israel.

[00:46] [applause]

[00:48] And some people accuse me of saying, you

[00:50] putting them first. No, I'm not. I'm

[00:52] putting it in perspective. I'm not God.

[00:56] It ain't up to me to tell God who I

[00:57] think he should say is his chosen people

[00:59] or not. It's not up to me. That ain't my

[01:01] fight. My fight is to do what Jesus

[01:04] Christ said. But I do acknowledge the

[01:06] the the people

[01:08] from which the word of God came. The

[01:12] prophets came. Salvation came.

[01:16] Jesus was a Jew. I think people forget

[01:18] that he was loyal. He was they

[01:21] considered him a rabbi, a good teacher.

[01:24] He kept the tenage. was sinless without

[01:26] fault all the way to his death.

[01:30] I don't know how we somehow deviate from

[01:33] that. And it bothers me that people in

[01:36] our country today, especially

[01:38] Christians, are so delusional about

[01:40] this. I interviewed Benjamin Netanyahu.

[01:44] Now, I'm not really big into

[01:46] geopolitics, right? I I went to Israel

[01:48] one time and I I fell in love with

[01:50] Israel then. I don't follow all the

[01:52] controversy, but I had an opportunity to

[01:54] interview him and I asked him all the

[01:56] questions that people had wanted me to

[01:57] ask him. I asked him about the the

[01:59] claims of genocide and now y'all know

[02:01] all the stuff that people say and he

[02:03] gave his explanation and people hated me

[02:08] for even daring to interview this man.

[02:11] I mean threats, they say I'm getting

[02:14] paid by Apac.

[02:16] [laughter]

[02:17] I didn't know what Apac was until this

[02:20] year.

[02:22] I never Who was Apac? I went where that

[02:24] when that check supposed to hit the

[02:25] account? I don't know where

[02:28] I'm now. I'm in the mail looking for

[02:29] Apac checks.

[02:32] The Israeli government is paying me to

[02:34] do these things. It's like, no, man. I

[02:36] just have common sense. A lot of these

[02:39] people are upset. They never even been

[02:40] to Israel. They've never been to the

[02:43] Holy Land. They don't understand the

[02:45] significance of Christians being free

[02:48] and able to go and visit the sites where

[02:50] Jesus was.

[02:52] People criticize me and make claims and

[02:55] at the end of the day, take your behind

[02:58] to Israel for yourself.

[03:02] [applause]

[03:06] And then you tell me how Christians are

[03:08] being treated. Some of y'all were with

[03:10] me on that trip or I was with you on the

[03:12] trip. We were praising God, lifting up

[03:16] the name of Jesus on the Sea of Galilee.

[03:19] We were we were lifting up the name of

[03:21] Jesus at the mount of biatitudes. We

[03:23] were everywhere lifting up the name of

[03:26] Jesus all over Jerusalem and Israel.

[03:29] Where is it that people get the fact

[03:31] that Christians can't openly exist and

[03:34] worship in Israel? Now, I tell you what,

[03:37] if another group of people owned or took

[03:41] over that land, you can forget about

[03:44] going and worshiping, being free to lift

[03:46] up the name of Jesus in that land. You

[03:49] can forget about it.

[03:51] And I'm hoping that people acknowledge

[03:52] that and understand that

[03:55] the claims of genocide.

[03:58] I have never in my life heard of a

[04:01] genocide where they feed you during a

[04:03] genocide.

[04:04] I didn't know they th they giving you

[04:06] food while they genociding you. I I

[04:08] never in my life heard of a genocide

[04:10] where they drop leaflets and phone calls

[04:12] and say, "Hey, man, get out of harm's

[04:13] way." I never heard of a What? What?

[04:16] This is a new form of genocide.

[04:18] I don't know how people can be so

[04:20] ignorant to think that. And here's the

[04:22] contrast. You say, "Who do you think is

[04:25] right and wrong in the conflict?"

[04:27] Well, when the bombs come flying into

[04:30] Israel, their citizens go down into the

[04:32] bomb shelters.

[04:34] When bombs come flying in Gaza, the

[04:38] criminals and the terrorists go down

[04:39] into the shelters and they keep the

[04:41] people above ground. Tell me who's

[04:44] crazy. Tell me who's who's the bad guy.

[04:48] Ask yourself this question cuz I know

[04:50] not everybody in here agree, but ask

[04:52] yourself this question the next time

[04:53] somebody challenge you on this point.

[04:55] Just just simply ask them, when are you

[04:57] going to call for Hamas to ceasefire?

[05:00] When are you going to call for Hamas to

[05:01] release the hostages? When are you going

[05:03] to criticize a terrorist group

[05:06] [applause] for the atrocities that

[05:08] they've done and they continue to do?

[05:11] [applause]

[05:12] And I'm glad I'm not a president

[05:17] cuz y'all have to unfortunately hear the

[05:19] news say I've committed war crimes and

[05:20] all kind of stuff.

[05:22] But I would challenge and I wish that

[05:25] this would have been done in 48 hours.

[05:28] If this ever happened in America, I

[05:31] could just see Trump doing it now with

[05:32] his comb over right there. He just whip

[05:34] it to the side.

[05:39] Release the hostages in 42 hours or it's

[05:43] all over.

[05:45] That's [applause]

[05:51] >> [applause]

[05:53] >> Now, that's what I would have done,

[05:55] right? Because I do believe in swift

[05:58] justice. The prolonging of the war is

[06:01] what caused the criticism and the

[06:02] naysayers and all of the above. And that

[06:05] has been bothersome to me. I want to go

[06:08] back to our country and the state of,

[06:13] you know, the environment around

[06:15] Charlie's death. I want to go back to

[06:16] that for a minute because I'm insanely

[06:20] upset of the conspiracies

[06:24] that are being pushed around Charlie's

[06:25] death. And some of you guys, [applause]

[06:29] some of you guys hear it that Israel did

[06:33] it.

[06:35] Let me say this real quick. Can I say

[06:36] it, pastor? Can I say it? Okay.

[06:41] Somehow the same people who claimed

[06:45] Charlie Kirk was a shield for uh Israel

[06:49] and he was in the pocket of Benjamin

[06:51] Netanyahu, they hated Charlie because of

[06:53] his respect and love for Israel. The

[06:56] same people after he loses his life

[07:00] blame Israel for doing it yet claim he's

[07:03] in the pocket of the Israeli government.

[07:06] And then let me tell you this, it's the

[07:08] same people with the bad math of a

[07:10] genocide. They claim that because

[07:13] Charlie Kirk as a rational adult had

[07:17] questions or disagreements with the

[07:20] government at times that somehow he was

[07:23] turning so they killed him. Yet they

[07:25] didn't go after the people who were

[07:27] complete anti-semites.

[07:30] How is that possible? They say because

[07:32] Charlie was turning a little bit, they

[07:34] came after him. But then you got people

[07:36] who turned all the way. I'm talking

[07:38] about completely went from I support

[07:40] Israel to now Israel is responsible for

[07:43] every atrocity that has ever happened on

[07:45] in human history. How is it that they

[07:48] after him but not after you

[07:50] and you're the biggest anti-semite in

[07:52] the world? And so that that bothered me.

[07:56] And then also the lies of the I think it

[07:59] was uh Frank Turk, one of one of

[08:01] Charlie's really good friends. I met he

[08:02] was at the event last year. I think I

[08:04] said his name right. And uh we were in

[08:06] the car together. We we were going to

[08:08] the airport I think together. Wonderful

[08:10] man. They're saying he doing hand signs

[08:12] to set up Charlie. You know how insane

[08:15] that is? And then his other gentlemen

[08:18] that been protecting Charlie for

[08:20] probably a decade now that love Charlie,

[08:22] put his life on the line for Charlie.

[08:23] They say he doing hand signals.

[08:26] the video team, Terrell and all those

[08:28] guys that I've been working with since

[08:30] 2017, they've been over backwards and

[08:33] dedicate their lives to Charlie Kirk.

[08:34] I've seen it with my own eyes. Them

[08:36] young guys barely getting sleep, driving

[08:38] across the country, flying on an

[08:40] airplane with all that equipment just to

[08:41] set up for Charlie so he can do the

[08:43] change my mind events, dedicating their

[08:45] lives to Charlie Kurt. They loved

[08:48] Charlie. And people are out here saying

[08:50] that they're taking down cameras and

[08:52] manipulating footage. It is sickening to

[08:55] me. And I would say this just to give

[08:57] you guys a perspective. I was a police

[09:00] officer. You guys probably have plenty

[09:01] of police officers in this church that

[09:03] can give you uh guidance on this. Before

[09:06] you push the conspiracies and you go

[09:08] down the rabbit hole, I understand that

[09:10] it's hard to accept that a 22-year-old

[09:13] low life with no value decided to take

[09:16] Charlie's life. It's hard to

[09:18] perceptualize. It's hard that somebody

[09:20] like that could get even get to Charlie

[09:22] and take his life. So, I know that

[09:24] there's in the mind there's some have of

[09:27] a cognitive dissonance at times and

[09:29] people are looking for answers and

[09:30] sometimes conspiracies can be a quicker

[09:32] way to get to it. But don't believe the

[09:35] hype. Allow the investigation to go

[09:38] forward and allow um those things to

[09:40] happen before you make determinations.

[09:43] There are people that are saying that

[09:44] the person who did this didn't even do

[09:46] it and it's a conspiracy from the

[09:48] government. That's insane.

[09:52] You have a person confessed. You have a

[09:55] a father who turned his son in. You have

[09:57] video evidence. You have DNA evidence.

[10:00] You have a weapon. You have a person who

[10:03] owned the weapon who identified that

[10:04] that is his weapon at the crime scene.

[10:06] You have text messages. and people are

[10:09] out saying that the text messages are

[10:10] clearly a fraudulent situation. Let the

[10:14] investigators do their job. And when

[10:17] they conclude, then you can make an

[10:19] assessment of whether you believe that

[10:21] they did a good job or not. Please don't

[10:24] be activated to jump on the bandwagon.

[10:26] And I know that you guys aren't. You

[10:27] smart. I'm talking about the church down

[10:28] the street. Tell

[10:32] when y'all drive by there, just tell

[10:34] them what I said.

[10:36] Y cuz y'all perfect.

[10:40] But I I just want to encourage you guys

[10:41] to that. Just don't don't fall for it.

[10:43] Some of it can be compelling, but don't

[10:45] fall for it. And I I'll say this out of

[10:48] respect for his family and don't share

[10:50] that crap online because, you know, his

[10:53] wife is struggling. I'm sure I'm

[10:55] struggling and he was just a friend of

[10:57] mine. We would text every now and again

[10:58] and I did turnoint events. I mean, that

[11:00] was that was God's person for her that

[11:03] she waited a while to have. you know,

[11:06] she I think they were in their 30s when

[11:08] when they got married. They didn't get

[11:09] married at 18. So, she had a life and

[11:11] God finally sent her the person she was

[11:14] looking for. And it could be very

[11:15] devastating for her. And to question

[11:18] whether or not they got the right person

[11:21] is not okay. It's not okay unless you

[11:24] have unequivocal proof.