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@richtidwell is one of the highest-engagement amplifiers of the exploding-microphone / AES supply-chain theory. A widely shared March 20, 2026 post compressed the whole stack into one sequence, and the site's mic pages track it as attributed citizen commentary — not as a finding that any device was used at UVU.
Claims from X posts
- The fatal mechanism was "the mic under Charlie Kirk's shirt" — the under-shirt RØDE transmitter, not a rooftop rifle. See RØDE mic.
- Accurate Energetic Systems (AES) is named in the theory as the device manufacturer, linked to a DoD procurement of roughly $425k in May 2025 for miniaturized charges — figures as posted; primary award records are on USASpending.gov. See DoD Contract.
- The October 2025 AES plant explosion in McEwen, Tennessee (posts claim roughly 16 lives lost, ~3 weeks to a month after the assassination) is framed as suspicious timing — a motive question, per the posts, not a completed proof. See AES factory explosion.
- The post ties the chain to a motive question about Kirk's public posture on Israel and Iran war policy — attributed framing only.
- The full claimed sequence: contract → mic under shirt → assassination → plant disaster. Skeptics reply that explosives factories explode without conspiracy; the site records both sides on the AES Tennessee Explosion page.
Investigative value
The account functions as a compression node: it took the longer @jonaaronbray / Stew Peters analyses and turned them into a single viral timeline that the site's Mic section now maps claim-by-claim. Everything here is attributed X commentary; the site makes no claim that AES or any living person committed a crime.