Gary Melton from Paramount Debunks Three Major Conspiracy Theories About Charlie Kirk Shooting Incident

[00:00] Hey folks, Gary here with Paramount. I

[00:01] hope everybody out there is having a

[00:02] great Sunday or whatever day that you're

[00:04] watching this. Uh right now it's Sunday,

[00:06] September 14th, and last night we did a

[00:09] joint live stream with Nate from VFT.

[00:13] And it was a I think it was a really

[00:14] good and productive live stream. We

[00:16] spent a lot of time bouncing ideas off

[00:18] of each other, um sanity checking one

[00:21] another, and then of course spent a lot

[00:22] of time answering questions from

[00:24] viewers, reading their comments. It was

[00:27] it was it was good. And one of the

[00:28] things that I did during that was

[00:30] basically I gave out an email address

[00:32] said, "Hey, if anybody has additional

[00:34] information or footage or video or

[00:35] whatever else, please send it to us and

[00:38] uh we had a really really strong

[00:40] response, right? And I really appreciate

[00:42] everybody that sent us video. Uh we got

[00:44] a lot of new video. I'm still going

[00:45] through it. Even some of the video I

[00:48] already had, I got much better and

[00:50] higher resolutions, you know, versions

[00:52] of that video. So that was extremely

[00:53] helpful, too. But we also got a lot of

[00:56] emails on three particular subjects or

[01:01] conspiracy theories that people are

[01:03] concerned about. These are all three

[01:05] kind of separate incidents that are

[01:07] being widely discussed in social media.

[01:09] There's lots of content circulating

[01:11] around social media about them. The

[01:12] reason I want to address these three

[01:14] conspiracy theories, um, I think it's

[01:17] really important that we stay on track,

[01:18] right? I think there's a lot of people

[01:19] out there that intentionally try to

[01:21] distract us for political reasons or

[01:23] confuse people. Then I think there's a

[01:25] whole element of people out there that

[01:26] are just going to post whatever for for

[01:28] clicks and views. And then there are of

[01:30] course people that are posting things in

[01:31] good faith and it's just incorrect. But

[01:33] regardless, the end result is that we

[01:37] start chasing things down that shouldn't

[01:38] that are kind of a waste of time. It

[01:40] distracts us. It confuses everybody. and

[01:43] there's some opportunity loss when we

[01:44] could be directing people and paying

[01:46] attention to things that are possibly

[01:48] more important. So, I want to go through

[01:50] these and the first one is probably the

[01:51] easiest one to explain and that is the

[01:53] floating dot or I've seen it referenced

[01:55] as the AI dot. So, if you look right

[01:57] here on Charlie Kirk's shirt, we see

[02:00] this black rectangle. And as a matter of

[02:02] fact, if you go and look at a lot of his

[02:05] other content, you'll see the exact same

[02:06] black rectangle. What that is is I think

[02:09] it's exactly this, by the way. All

[02:12] right. This is a magnetic clip. It comes

[02:14] with these road microphones. And because

[02:17] it's larger and has a little bit more

[02:19] surface area, even with some of these

[02:20] other small mics, I'll continue to use

[02:22] this one. But we see that they're in

[02:24] place. Oh, and and if you're wondering,

[02:26] a lot of times content creators, they

[02:29] will put the magnet on the outside and

[02:32] the microphone on the inside. That way,

[02:34] viewers and people that you're talking

[02:35] to aren't distracted by this large

[02:36] device. It's just a little bit lower

[02:38] profile and a little more inconspicuous.

[02:40] So, a lot of people will use them in

[02:42] that manner. Now, I know things get

[02:43] weird with that when it comes to the

[02:46] moment that Charlie Kirk is shot and

[02:49] that's because we see it there and the

[02:51] slow motion suddenly we see it for a few

[02:53] frames and then we don't see it anymore

[02:55] and then it crosses his neck and it

[02:58] almost looks like that this rectangle

[03:01] turns into the wound on Charlie's neck.

[03:04] I think that is just a really strange

[03:06] coincidence. You know, when you have

[03:08] these situations where people are

[03:09] filming on these not really high quality

[03:12] cameras on on their cell phones and a

[03:14] very low frame rate and you're dealing

[03:16] with something like a gunshot that

[03:18] rapidly accelerates everything involved,

[03:21] it gets a little hard to track. One

[03:23] thing that you need to understand is

[03:24] that these phones film in typically 24

[03:27] frames. Probably the most common is 30

[03:29] frames, 60 frames, or 120 frames. That's

[03:31] usually the limit. I think the iPhone

[03:32] Pro will do like 240 frames, but people

[03:35] don't go around filming in that high

[03:36] frame rate. So, unfortunately, when we

[03:39] take a a snippet of film or video and

[03:43] then we slow it down in some sort of

[03:45] editing software, it doesn't actually

[03:48] slow this down. So, this is 30 frames

[03:50] per second. So, what it'll do is

[03:52] basically just take that one frame and

[03:55] show you that one frame for a longer

[03:56] amount of time. So, a lot of data is

[03:59] lost. And this is a great example of

[04:01] this. So every time I click this arrow

[04:03] forward, it's moving forward one frame

[04:05] at a time. So I'm looking at the same

[04:07] picture. Nothing's moving for 1 2 3 4 5

[04:11] 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

[04:16] 16 or 17 frames. That was one picture.

[04:20] So a lot of information. It jumped from

[04:22] right here to right here. So that

[04:24] information in between us tracking that

[04:26] object, we lose all that. And I think it

[04:29] just happens to be a crazy coincidence

[04:31] that the that the path of this happens

[04:34] to coincide with suddenly his wound

[04:37] appearing. And I know a lot of people

[04:38] are saying, you know, this basically

[04:40] turns into his wound. That's just not

[04:41] the case. When you're dealing with

[04:43] something as dynamic and as fast as the

[04:47] impact of a bullet and you're trying to

[04:48] parse through and see what's what's

[04:50] going on and you're using these to do

[04:53] that, these devices are just wholly

[04:54] inadequate when it comes to trying to

[04:56] get the level of fidelity that we want.

[04:58] Now, if this video was taken in 120

[05:01] frames per second, I think we'd be able

[05:03] to track this all the way over or

[05:06] wherever it goes, but we would be able

[05:07] to track this because we're getting 120

[05:09] frames per second. So instead of as this

[05:12] thing flies, we get a frame of it here,

[05:13] a frame of it here, frame of it here,

[05:15] we' be able to track that trajectory

[05:17] very easily and be able to see where

[05:19] that's going. So hopefully that makes

[05:20] sense. This is what it is. I know some

[05:22] things get weird with the dynamics

[05:24] involved in the situation, but I think

[05:27] that's let me know if you think that's a

[05:29] good explanation. All right, the next

[05:30] subject that I got a ton of emails on

[05:32] was this guy right here. You know, he's

[05:34] wearing that white polo shirt. He's

[05:35] holding a phone. He's got that white hat

[05:37] on. And everyone is basically saying,

[05:40] "Hey, look, this guy gives some hand

[05:42] signals right before the shot." And you

[05:44] can see it.

[05:46] >> There we go.

[05:48] >> And then moments later,

[05:50] >> all right, I'm not even going to show

[05:51] it. Make sure that we don't get censored

[05:53] here. Yesterday, I came across this

[05:54] video that I'm going to show you. Um,

[05:56] and you tell me what you think. So, you

[05:58] can go watch the unedited version of

[05:59] this video on Alisa Childers's

[06:01] Instagram. Uh, unfortunately when she

[06:05] made this video, there was a bunch of

[06:06] background music and if I didn't remove

[06:08] the audio, we would get a copyright

[06:11] strike. So, I'll play this. She says, "I

[06:14] want to address a conspiracy theory

[06:16] that's been going around and that is

[06:19] that there is a man in a white hat and

[06:20] white t-shirt standing just off of

[06:23] Charlie just as he was shot." And this

[06:25] man adjusts his hat and then scratches

[06:27] his cheek. And there are conspiracy

[06:29] theorists all over the social media and

[06:31] all over the internet that are saying

[06:33] that man is giving signals to the

[06:36] sniper. But friends, I want to share the

[06:38] truth with you today. The man in the

[06:40] white hat and the white shirt is my

[06:41] friend Frank Turk. Frank Turk is a man

[06:44] of God. He's an honorable man. He was

[06:47] close friends with Charlie. Charlie

[06:48] meant a lot to Frank. Frank mentored

[06:50] Charlie. He loved Charlie and he invited

[06:53] him to take part in that event with

[06:55] Charlie. She goes on to give a lot more

[06:57] context and more information regarding

[06:59] Charlie and Frank's relationship. If

[07:02] you're suspicious of this gentleman, I

[07:04] highly recommend you go watch that video

[07:06] before you come to any final

[07:07] conclusions. I've looked up Frank Turk.

[07:11] Everything checks out. He has lots and

[07:13] lots of content with Charlie. They

[07:14] clearly knew each other well. They

[07:16] clearly spent a lot of time together.

[07:17] After watching all that, I think it's

[07:19] highly improbable, quite frankly

[07:21] implausible that he was involved in, you

[07:24] know, any assassination plot of Charlie

[07:27] Kirk. But, um, that's for you to decide.

[07:29] Go check out that information and, uh,

[07:31] tell me what you think about that. The

[07:32] last one that we're going to address

[07:33] right here involves the man to Charlie

[07:36] Kirk's right. He's wearing that bluish

[07:38] greenish shirt, gray hair, has

[07:40] sunglasses on. And I want you to notice

[07:43] right here where he has something in his

[07:46] hand under his arm. I've heard and seen

[07:48] lots of content on this already saying

[07:51] that that was everything from some sort

[07:54] of gun to a zip gun. He was the actual

[07:57] shooter. Well, let's kind of play this

[07:59] through and see what kind of conclusion

[08:02] or evidence we can find of that. So, we

[08:04] can see right here is where Charlie is

[08:07] first struck. And I'm going to go ahead

[08:09] and zoom in

[08:11] on that man and whatever he has

[08:15] underneath his arm. So, if it was any

[08:17] sort of projectile producing device, you

[08:20] would think we would see some sort of

[08:22] movement, some recoil, we'd see him move

[08:24] or something like that. I'm going to

[08:25] stop right here where Charlie was first

[08:27] struck. And now we're just going to go

[08:28] back one frame at a time

[08:31] and see if we see any movement

[08:34] whatsoever.

[08:36] And there's nothing. I'm moving forward.

[08:37] Boom. He struck. Nothing happens. There

[08:40] is no movement with

[08:44] whatever is underneath that guy's shirt.

[08:46] And on top of that, the idea that we're

[08:47] going to have a guy that's part of his

[08:49] security detail that's standing right

[08:51] next to Charlie within, you know, a

[08:53] couple of feet, all eyes on him. He's

[08:55] gonna carry a gun, hold it underneath

[08:57] his armpit, and then without even

[08:59] looking, he's going to assassinate

[09:01] Charlie Kirk right there in front of

[09:03] everybody. So, if I was in charge of

[09:05] that operation, somebody came and

[09:07] briefed me, I'm like, "Wait, what?

[09:09] You're telling me that you are going to

[09:10] pull off this assassination in front of

[09:12] everybody and somehow no one's going to

[09:16] see you or suspect you?" I think that

[09:18] was ludicrous. And I think that this

[09:20] theory in general just has no merit. So,

[09:23] tonight, Sunday, September 14th, 10 p.m.

[09:25] Eastern time, we are going to be doing a

[09:27] live stream, and we're going to be

[09:28] talking about a couple of other

[09:32] um potential suspicious things going on

[09:35] with all of this. One is this footage

[09:38] right here. I know a lot of people are

[09:40] saying, uh, there is no rifle involved.

[09:42] We're going to go through that, analyze

[09:44] that, and I'm actually trying to get a

[09:46] really good guest that has probably one

[09:48] of the most capable people to kind of

[09:50] discuss and analyze this footage. But

[09:52] make sure you come join us live 10 p.m.

[09:54] Eastern time right here on YouTube and

[09:56] Rumble and X. We want you to join in on

[09:58] the conversation. We want to read your

[10:00] comments. We'll take your questions. Um

[10:02] and yeah, you know, hopefully we can

[10:04] just continue to be a positive,

[10:06] productive force of, you know, getting

[10:08] our country back on track. But thanks

[10:11] for watching and until next time, stay

[10:13] armed, stay ready. We'll talk to you

[10:15] soon.

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