This has inevitably included the chorus of knuckleheads that makes up the Donald Trump cabinet. Since Kirk's death, Republican conservatives have called for a crackdown on the left, though it is by no means clear that any identifiable left-of-center group was in any way implicated in the killing.

More likely perhaps, is the suggestion that Kirk might have been killed by Israel, which had both motive and means to carry out the assassination. Israel also has an international record for political assassinations that is second to none as the United States always provides it with political cover when it kills someone. This has been the case recently in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran and Qatar. The instantly after-the-fact babbling by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describing how much he loved Kirk is in itself extremely suspicious as it is clear that the Israelis and their friends in the US were at odds with Kirk over his concerns about the Jewish state's control over both Trump and US policy.