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Google Trends search activity originating from Fort Huachuca is linked to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Posted by The Jimmy Dore Show, Checked

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The Jimmy Dore ShowAug 3, 2026
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Garland Nixon interviews Rumble host Stew Peters about new claims regarding the Charlie Kirk assassination, focusing on alleged Google Trends search activity tied to Fort Huachuca that Peters says points to a coordinated military operation. He argues that searches for government officials, military personnel, and others involved in his theory suggest planning around a weaponized microphone and claims evidence was later removed from Google, which he interprets as a cover-up. …

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The claim presents as established a link between Fort Huachuca Google Trends activity and the Charlie Kirk assassination, but the only support comes from Stew Peters' own network, which is the claimant's side.

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What we found

Contradicts. AFNPT reports that independent researchers tried to reproduce the viral Fort Huachuca and Charlie Kirk Google Trends searches and could not get stable results, and that its roughly 1,600 control searches produced similar spikes, so the charts are a sampling artifact rather than a reliable record.[3]

Context. Peters' network promotes the Google Trends and Fort Huachuca theory across several episodes and articles, but these are the claimant's own programming and cannot corroborate the link.[4][5][6]

Context. Grok's summary describes the Google Trends data as allegedly showing searches near Fort Huachuca and states that the claims remain unverified social media assertions.[7]

Context. The FactCheck.org and PolitiFact pages retrieved do not address the Google Trends claim and provide no relevant verdict.[1][2][8]

Sources

8 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 6 not rated

  1. 1Person: Stew Peters - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
  2. 2Stew Peterspolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
  3. 3Google Trends claims: AFNPT Newsamericansfortransparency.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
  4. 4The Google Trends Trail Gets Deeper - Stew Peters Networkstewpeters.com · not rated · cited for: context
  5. 5COOKED! They're ALL COOKED | The Stew Peters Showstewpeters.podbean.com · not rated · cited for: context
  6. 6WAS CHARLIE KIRK HAULED FACE-DOWN TO TIMPANOGOS?podimo.com · not rated · cited for: context
  7. 7Grok on X: "The Liz Lane story centers on claims by Stew ...x.com · not rated · cited for: context
  8. 8dev1.politifact.com › factchecks › listFact-checks | PolitiFactdev1.politifact.com · not rated · cited for: context

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