CNN’s Van Jones Reveals Charlie Kirk Sent Him A Message Two Days Before He Was Assassinated

CNN’s Van Jones has revealed he recived a private message from Charlie Kirk just days before the TPUSA Founder was assassinated.

Jones, in an op-ed for CNN, wrote that he and Charlie had been debating back and forth on X regarding the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska.

Kirk took the position that the murder was motivated by anti-White hatred, whereas Jones did not agree.

Despite Kirk’s disagreement with Jones, he invited the CNN host via a message on X to debate the topic on his show.

Van Jones wrote about the message in an op-ed on CNN:

The day before he was horrifically murdered, Charlie Kirk sent me a direct message on X.

He and I had been sparring publicly over the killing of a Ukrainian refugee and its relationship to race.

He said the gruesome killing of a White woman by a Black man was motivated solely by anti-White hatred. I denounced those comments on CNN as unfounded. He went on TV and denounced MY denunciation. Then he unleashed a firehose of tweets, challenging my argument.

Kirk’s pushback sparked an online torrent of racist death threats against me, the likes of which I have rarely seen.

Things were seriously heading off the rails.

Then — in the middle of all this — Charlie Kirk reached out.

He invited me to come on his show to talk with him. He wrote:

“Hey, Van, I mean it, I’d love to have you on my show to have a respectful conversation about crime and race. I would be a gentleman as I know you would be as well. We can disagree about the issues agreeably.”

Unfortunately, before I could even respond, Charlie Kirk was killed — seemingly assassinated for the words he’s spoken, though the killer’s exact motives are still being investigated.

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I’ve taken issue with many of those words — sometimes strongly — but never his right to speak them. Never his right to express those views and then go home to his family. That is a sacred American value.

Watch Van Jones explain the context behind the message here:

Van Jones Gets Emotional After a Newly Discovered DM from Charlie Kirk

“After he was murdered, my team called and said he was trying to reach you … This guy is reaching out to his mortal enemy saying, we need to be gentlemen and sit down together … I've sat on it long enough.” pic.twitter.com/3qE1PIEaGl

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) September 20, 2025