The File
Harrison Smith hosts programming on Infowars and has been the origin point for at least one significant unverified claim that later spread through the same conspiracist ecosystem documented elsewhere in this cluster. In August 2025, Smith posted that he had been told Charlie Kirk believed Israel would kill him if he turned against them, a claim later amplified following Kirk's assassination the following month.
The Documented Record
August 13, 2025: Harrison Smith, an Infowars host, posted a claim that he had been told by someone close to Charlie Kirk that Kirk believed Israel would kill him if he turned against them. [DOCUMENTED]
September 10, 2025: Charlie Kirk was assassinated. [DOCUMENTED]
September 2025: Smith's earlier claim was amplified by other online figures, including Maram Susli, in the context of a broader conspiracy theory blaming Israel for the assassination. [DOCUMENTED]
Reporting on the claim's spread noted that Kirk was a consistent and public supporter of Israel, a fact that directly undercut the internal logic of Smith's claim. [DOCUMENTED]
What the Record Does Not Establish
The record does not establish that Smith's claim about Kirk's private beliefs is accurate, only that Smith made the claim publicly and that others later amplified it. It does not establish that Smith had any advance knowledge related to Kirk's actual assassination, an unrelated event that occurred a month later. The strongest rival explanation is that Smith repeated a secondhand claim of uncertain origin that gained retroactive significance only because of the later assassination, not because the claim itself was ever substantiated.
Sources
- Israel conspiracy theories after Charlie Kirk's assassination, St. Louis Jewish Light, 2025
- Online conspiracy theorists blame the Jews for Charlie Kirk's assassination, Times of Israel, 2025
Connected Files
AJONES-002 documents Susli's amplification of this same claim. AJONES-009 documents a separate, unrelated claim made by Smith.