Dick Morris to Newsmax: Kirk’s Shooting Was a Plot to ‘Muzzle Us’

The fatal shooting of conservative icon Charlie Kirk was not a random act of violence but a carefully planned operation to “muzzle us by killing us,” political strategist Dick Morris told Newsmax Saturday.

“This was a targeted, planned assassination by a shooter who was capable of hitting a jugular vein at 200 yards with a regular rifle with a scope and taking just one shot to do it,” Morris told Newsmax’s “The Count.” “Someone with that skill and that training did this assassination, and I don’t care that [he] was 22 years old or anything. It certainly is possible to program people to be good, to do that for the rest.”

The intent of Kirk’s slaying went beyond silencing not just one person but the whole conservative movement, Morris added.

Read more at Newsmax© 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

There is no custom code to display.