Last week on Fox News Jesse Watters invited a cavalcade of conspiracy theorists who enthusiastically demonized the transgender community and blamed them for the murder of Charlie Kirk. Never mind that the suspect in Kirk’s murder, Tyler Robinson, is a cis-gender young man who was raised in a deeply religious and politically conservative gun-loving family.

So far there is no evidence that Robinson worked with an accomplice or coordinated with a larger political organization. According to the series of text messages released by authorities even Robinson’s romantic partner, who happens to be transgender, had no advance notice of his plans to allegedly shoot Charlie Kirk.

Watters could have invited former law enforcement officials, a criminal profiler, or a ballistic expert to talk about the horrific crime. The Fox News host could have spoken with people Charlie Kirk worked with at his foundation Turning Point USA or a student who was inspired by Kirk’s advocacy for his faith or political causes.

Instead, Watters gave a platform to conspiracy theorists who have peddled false stories about sex trafficking, racist immigration schemes and lies about the 2020 presidential election.

Chris Rufo, Jack Posobiec, and Andy Ngo are not serious academics, experts or journalists they are propagandists who profit from disinformation, fantastical fabrications, racist and bigoted tropes and the illogical fear of an impending communist takeover of the largest free market economy in the world.

The Fox News host wasn’t turning the temperature down in terms of heated political rhetoric he was throwing jet fuel on a raging bonfire of hate and division.

Other major stories of the week included President Trump’s trip to the UK, ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel from his late night talk show and Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops into Memphis Tennessee.

Shows I analyzed on Fox News last week:

• Fox & Friends - extra hours on Monday

• The Five

• Jesse Watters Primetime

• The Story - Thursday only (Trump interview)

• Charlie Kirk Memorial - five hour commercial-free broadcast

• Several Trump press conferences

Jesse Watters Asked a Blowtorch to Put out a Fire

Jack Posobiec is a popular far right influencer and conspiracy theorist best known for promoting Pizzagate - a false story that claimed that Hillary Clinton and other high ranking members of the Democratic Party were part of a child sex-trafficking ring.

Posobiec and others claimed that emails hacked from the DNC in 2016 contained coded messages about the sexual torture and abuse of children. One of the main locations for this abuse was the basement of Comet Ping Pong a Washington D.C. based pizzeria.

One believer in the theory, Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, was so disturbed by the thought of children chained to the walls of Comet Ping Pong that he drove from North Carolina with an AR-15 style rifle only to find that the restaurant didn’t even have a basement, much less one filled with hapless children.

Welch fired three shots into the building but luckily no one was injured. He later surrendered to police without incident. A few days later another man, Yusif Lee Jones, 52, was arrested after making threatening phone calls to Besta Pizza, another pizzeria that was part of the false story promoted by Posobiec and others.

Posobiec was also part of the Alt-Right a white supremacist movement he later disavowed after the murder of Heather Heyer at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has also promoted other conspiracies surrounding false stories about the 2020 presidential election (Stop the Steal) and a scheme to replace white Americans with more docile non-white immigrants (The Great Replacement).

Five days after Charlie Kirk’s murder Watters thought Posobiec would be an appropriate guest to discuss mending political divisions.

From Monday night’s episode of “Jesse Watters Primetime,”

“Can we come together, Jack? Are these people capable of coming together with?” asked Watters.

“Jesse. We had one guy, a good friend of mine, who tried to talk to them, who tried to get them to listen to reason, and they killed him. They killed him in cold blood. Charlie tried sitting down and having conversations, and many people came. Thousands of people came. But there are a group of people in this country. Jesse. There is a a social cancer, a cancerous ideology that is spread throughout this country. And I’m not just talking about the talking heads. And yeah, there’s there’s plenty of those as well. But we’ve seen it with the average people. It’s gone mainstream in so many ways to act as if they are completely dissociated with humanity. And what you said about shunning family members and canceling and censorship, that’s where it started. And it ended with my friend shot on campus,” said Posobiec.

Posobiec used the plural pronoun of ‘they’ when he referred to the alleged murderer of Kirk - a single gunman acting alone.

Posobiec also spoke at Charlie Kirk’s memorial which aired on Fox News on Sunday September 21st. His speech was the most reckless and disturbing call to action in the entire event.

“Are you ready to fight back? And are you ready to put on the full armor of God and face the evil in high places? And the spiritual warfare before us that put on the full armor of God. Do it now. Now is the time. This is the place. This is the turning point for Charlie,” said Posobiec in a full scream to 90,000 people in an auditorium.

Chris Rufo Invented - Transgender Militant Ideology

In the same program Watters included Chris Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Rufo has also worked with the Claremont Institute, The Discovery Institute, The Heritage Foundation and the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.

Rufo built his career on hyping up the fear of critical race theory in American schools and government agencies. He was largely successful at influencing President Donald J. Trump and other prominent Republicans against DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) programs.

In 2023 the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Rufo had a contract with a Hungarian government-funded organization to give two lectures on the “topics of critical race theory and LGBTQ propaganda.”

He has also spread disinformation and promoted conspiracy theories. In September 2024 J.D. Vance retweeted a video by Rufo that promoted the false story that migrants were eating pet dogs and cats in Dayton, Ohio.

Rufo has also advocated for the removal of any discussions of the LGBTQ+ community in schools. According to reporting by The New York Times he appeared alongside Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as he signed Florida House Bill 1557 which prohibits teachers from discussing anything related to LGBTQ+ related topics from kindergarten through the third grade.

On “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Rufo appeared to invent a new moral scourge while discussing Kirk’s murder.

“Transgender militant ideology is the most dangerous ideology in the United States at this moment. It’s something that we need to take very seriously,” said Rufo.

Rufo offered nothing to back up his outrageous claim. He offered no study, no data, or research to fortify his declaration that ‘transgender militant ideology’ even existed.

Andy Ngo - Another Non-expert with a Political Agenda

Watters included Andy Ngo in the same program. Ngo is a propagandist who markets himself as an expert on antifa.

Ngo is the editor-at-large for The Post Millennial a Canadian far right propagandist website. Ngo’s work has been widely criticized as inaccurate and politically biased by countless journalists including multiple articles in the Columbia Journalism Review<a href="https://www.cjr.org/analysis/quillette-antifa-journalist-smear-campaign.php#:~:text=But%20for%20conservative%20medi