State Secretary Marco Rubio compared the murder of Charlie Kirk with a “death in the family” for the White House, while the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that such political violence only threatens democracy all over the world during a joint press conference on Monday.
Rubio and Netanyahu made joint comments in Jerusalem after a meeting to discuss the current war against Hamas in Gaza, when a reporter asked them about the consequences of Kirk’s murder.
Rubio called the murder “horrible” and “shocking” for those in the White House, including President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who were both close to Kirk.
“He was a personal friend for many people in that White House,” said Rubio about Kirk. “The president, on the vice -president, to several people. It was a combination, you know, political murder, but also death in the family type event.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and State Secretary Marco Rubio are holding a joint press conference at the Prime Minister’s office, during the visit of Rubio, in Jerusalem, Monday, September 15, 2025. (Nathan Howard/Pool -Photo via AP)
Kirk’s work let him make debates with people with opposing views and ideologies at university campuses and online. He was shot and killed while on Wednesday he was making a debate on the campus of Utah Valley University during a Turning Point USA event.
Both Rubio and Netanyahu said that the murder meant a threat to democracy in her attempt to keep the effort to keep discourse between people who disagree not only in America, but all over the world, not just disagree in America.
Rubio said that the murder of Kirk was a “political murder” and an attempt to “silence” the discourse between groups of people who do not agree. (Nathan Howard/Pool -Photo via AP)
“As soon as a society loses the ability of people with strong disagreements to participate in discourse, then the only option you have left is silence or violence,” said Rubio. “Neither is acceptable. Both are very destructive.”
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Netanyahu asked rhetorically how democracies that members of society can tackle that do not believe in free speech and resort to violence.
Charlie Kirk and JD Vance greeted supporters at the end of a Campagneveldrally on 1 May 2022, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Rubio said Kirk was close to several people in the White House, including Trump and Vance. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
“How is it about the threat of the poisonous incentive of the people who do not believe in free speech, who believe in imposing their views on others? Speak about democracy, but do you want to trample democracy in the dust? How do you deal with that?” the prime minister asked.
Netanyahu then described democracy as ‘the non -violent solution of conflicts within a society’.
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“Violent resolutions and decisions are not taken by bullets, but by ballot papers,” he said. “And these people are more and more violent.”
