Domenech and Russell X Thread, October 2023
What This Image Shows
This is a mobile screenshot of a thread on X, captured in the platform's dark mode. Two posts are stacked: an original from an account shown as Benjamin Domenech, dated 15 Oct 23, and a reply from an account shown as Clint Russell on the same date. Engagement counts, verification badges and timestamps are all visible, which is how the screenshot was circulated as a dated record rather than a paraphrase.
The on-screen text is legible. The first post reads: "If Charlie Kirk remains the head of TPUSA, the right has an anti-Semite problem that will follow them into the coming elections." The reply, marked "Replying to @bdomenech," reads: "Do you have a better answer as to why there was no real military presence for 7 hours into the attack? Can you understand why reasonable people would find that bizarre without it being a somehow hateful worldview?"
The exchange is filed here because it dates the public pressure campaign over Charlie Kirk's posture on Israel to nearly two years before the September 10, 2025 shooting at Utah Valley University. Researchers have pointed to that long-running friction, and to the donor pressure reported in Kirk's final weeks, when arguing about motive. Nothing in the screenshot connects either poster to the shooting. Read it alongside Israel, Motive and TPUSA.
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